Taxation Quotes

There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.

In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal

Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.

I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in . . . a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, . . . increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to protect it from foreign danger, or to secure individuals from lawless violence and rapine.

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside.

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor.

I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.

An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms

The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.