Taxation Quotes - Page 5

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four times as much by our Folly.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.

The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything, because it amounts to nothing less than outright extortion, a gross violation of human liberty.

A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands.

Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.

Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation? ... Today in our country the tax collector's share is 37 cents of every dollar earned. Freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp.

I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.

So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression.

Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.

The American colonies, all know, were greatly opposed to taxation without representation. They were also, a less celebrated quality, equally opposed to taxation with representation.

No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent.

The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people

Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose you more money than any single person in your life, with the possible exception of your kids

No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.

Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.