Taxation Quotes - Page 7

More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them.

Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a minor, though important place.

Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.

It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.

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. The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.

It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods.

Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.

Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.

Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous.

The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.

The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation.

What I know is that taxation, as far as liberal Democrats are concerned, is not about money. It's about power.

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.

In any socialist government, they must destroy all alliances other than your alliance to the government, and they want the government to become your God. That for you to totally depend upon government. So we become slaves to government, through taxation, through regulation, through all kinds of restrictions, that makes us not free anymore.

Close loopholes, close the special interest Washington carve outs and that means more incomes subject to taxation so we`re going to lower the rates on our businesses and be fair.

Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law.

That's the "magic" of double-taxation treaties: you can shop around for the lowest taxer.

The biggest review of taxation ever undertaken in this country, is now dead in the water.

Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!

Peace and prosperity are inversely proportional to the level of taxation.

By operating independently of government aid, the churches . . . avoid the resentment of those who do not want to be forced to contribute to churches to which they do not belong and of their own members who do not welcome being forced to contribute through government taxation.

I would suggest to my honourable Friend that the foreign investor is at least as discouraged by high national debt for that, as all example shows, is the surest precursor of high taxation.

I think the Republicans have really thoughtful financial policies, and I'm more in the middle on taxation.

Those who advocate either slavery or income taxation should be ashamed of themselves. Genuine freedom entails the abolition, not the reform, of income taxation and the IRS, just as genuine freedom entailed the abolition, not the reform, of slavery.