Quotes and Sayings about Taxation
"Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down."
- Charles Adams
(Related: Expediency, Greed, Taxation, Taxes)
"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."
- Edmund Barton
(Related: Education, Burden, Duty, State, Taxation)
"The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor."
- William Cobbett
(Related: Class, Labor, Taxation)
"I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace."
- Richard Cobden
(Related: Men, Money, Peace, Time, People, EnglFighting, Military, Taxation)
"No taxation without respiration."
- Tom Feeney
(Related: Taxation)
"Inflation is taxation without legislation."
- Milton Friedman
(Related: Inflation, Legislation, Taxation)
"Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation."
- Milton Friedman
(Related: Inflation, Legislation, Taxation)
"I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it."
- Warren G. Harding
(Related: Mind, Taxation)
"This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair."
- Doc Hastings
(Related: Taxation)
"It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation."
- Auberon Herbert
(Related: Taxation)
"The level of taxation is driven by spending. Less spending leads to lower taxes."
- Gregory D. Hess
(Related: Taxation, Taxes)
"We ought, therefore, to lessen the price of food to our manufacturers, and place them more on a level with the manufacturers who have cheaper food, and also much lighter taxation."
- Joseph Hume
(Related: Food, Taxation)
"Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support."
- Andrew Jackson
(Related: Power, Affection, Motives, Public, Support, Taxation)
"The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality."
- Andrew Jackson
(Related: Equality, Wisdom, Man, Taxation)
"Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed America is capable of great things and its people could and would lead the way if left unburdened by taxation and regulation."
- William L. Jenkins
(Related: Life, People, America, Taxation)
"But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration."
- Steve King
(Related: Death, People, Taxation)
"Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation."
- Fletcher Knebel
(Related: Mistake, Taxation)
"The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation."
- Vladimir Lenin
(Related: Inflation, Taxation)
"If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation."
- Rush Limbaugh
(Related: Thought, Taxation)
"When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before."
- H. L. Mencken
(Related: Old, Politicians, Practice, Taxation)
"My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury."
- Merton Miller
(Related: Finance, Corporate, Expertise, Public, Taxation)
"Taxation without representation is tyranny."
- James Otis
(Related: Taxation, Tyranny)
"Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits."
- Rick Perry
(Related: Jobs, states, Taxation)
"America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation."
- Laurence J. Peter
(Related: America, Land, Taxation)
"Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces."
- Terry Pratchett
(Related: Money, 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."
- J. M. Roberts
(Related: Authority, Respect, Taxation)
"In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented."
- Ernestine Rose
(Related: Government, Being, Rights, Land, Laws, Tyranny, Voice)
"Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor."
- John Ruskin
(Related: Labor, Land, Occupation, Taxation)
"Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success."
- Mark Skousen
(Related: Society, Success, Failure, Defeat, Tax, State, Taxation, World)
"A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft."
- L. Neil Smith
(Related: Job, Taxation, Theft)
"My legislation, the Simple Savings Tax Relief Act of 2005, simply eliminates the taxation of interest earned in savings accounts, such as passbook savings accounts or bank certificates of deposit."
- Cliff Stearns
(Related: Act, Tax, Interest, Legislation, Taxation)
"Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government."
- Robert Toombs
(Related: Government, Home, Power, War, Debt, Independence, Taxation)
"I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum."
- William Weld
(Related: Government, Duty, Taxation, Theft)