Taxation Quotes

When people say 'let's do something about it', they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.

Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

Without anarchy, there would be chaos.

Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.

The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.

There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation—the way of the State.

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.

In the same way that central banking nearly wrecked the world and created one calamity after another, bitcoin can save the world one transaction at a time.It is time for a new beginning.

The demoralization that the debase­ment of the currency left in its wake played a major role in bring­ing Adolf Hitler into power in 1933.

We've got this weird dysgenic situation where we're basically just paying idiots to breed and taxing intelligent people to stay away from each other with anything remotely resembling fertility.

You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly.

Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project, " a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation.

The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes.

The power to tax involves the power to destroy.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.

The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.

Next to being shot at and missed nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.

Governments last as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed . . . And all went to be taxed everyone into his own city.