Taxation Quotes - Page 4

Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

I believe that the levels of taxation advocated by liberals render those taxes a veiled form of theft. 'Give me more than half of your honestly earned money or you will be arrested' is legalized thievery.

Even if you assume that the whole economy would work better had we never had double taxation, having the envy and resentment of the richest paying low or no taxes screams of injustice. You have to have a fair system.

In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.

I would suggest the taxation of all property equally whether church or corporation.

The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.

Printing money is merely taxation in another form.

If politicians get money to spend and don't have to be responsible for taxation, then of course that will bias their attitude toward more spending as opposed to cutting back on spending.

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

Is there a point of taxation wherein even a Democrat would acknowledge it is thievery by the government?

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.

The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and 20s.

Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation.

Tens of billions ... are going into the pockets of tens of thousands of tax preparers who ... love complexity as much as the rest of us hate it

Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.

Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not a mode of taxation. It is rather a mode of disguised expropriation of the successful capitalists and entrepreneurs.

Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange, Although he fleeced the flags of every nation, For into a prime minister but change His title, and 'tis nothing but taxation.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.

Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.