Taxation Quotes - Page 3

In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.

Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.

Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.

In a general sense, all contributions imposed by the government upon individuals for the service of the state, are called taxes, by whatever name they may be known, whether by the name of tribute, tythe, tallage, impost, duty, gabel, custom, subsidy, aid, supply, excise, or other name.

Governments first of all have been able to amass, through the taxation process, large sums of capital which they have redistributed to persons or groups, already large holders of capital, through official subsidies.

This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair.

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.

Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.

A European currency will lead to member-nations transferring their sovereignty over financial and wage policies as well as in monetary affairs... It is an illusion to think that States can hold on to their autonomy over taxation policies.

[The Internal Revenue Code is] about 10 times the size of the Bible and, unlike the Bible, contains no good news

Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay

A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species.

A small business person has Uncle Sam as a partner, a partner who puts up no money, does no work, and wants 30 or 40 percent

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.

Most politicians are ever eager to regulate industrial and commercial activity and strike at the economic elite with confiscatory taxation. Unfortunately, regulation and taxation tend to hamper economic activity, inhibit productivity, and depress levels of living.

Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.

It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit, which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end purposed - that is, an extension of the revenue.

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities.

It's income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and stab yourself in the aorta

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.