Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing; it will be powerfull cement of our… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity. — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
Yeah, I am in favor of migration. But I am also in favor of education. But at the same time, I am… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Those who advocate either slavery or income taxation should be ashamed of themselves. Genuine freedom entails the abolition, not the reform, of… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would obtain progressive… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
It is my view that what is important is cutting government spending, however spending is financed. A so-called deficit is a disguised… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Most politicians are ever eager to regulate industrial and commercial activity and strike at the economic elite with confiscatory taxation. Unfortunately, regulation… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is… — George Will Copy Share Image
Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
GST is good idea! It brings hope for a better future. Under the new taxation regime, fruits, vegetables, pulses, wheat, bread and… — Amrapali Gupta Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, it probably is not “necessary” for the federal government to tax anyone directly; it could simply print the money it… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
The surest way for a poor nation to stay poor is to harass, hobble, and straitjacket private enterprise or to discourage or… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous. — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Our loyalty lies with little taxpayers, not big spenders. What our critics really believe is that those in Washington know better how… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
It's income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible… — Jean-Baptiste Colbert Copy Share Image
Next you will cry about taxation without representation, and throw a basket of tea into the harbor. You are indeed a very… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
Men like Henry George [ the pioneer of land value taxation] are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
National Health? Socialized pension funds? State-controlled television? Search and seizure laws? Forfeiture laws? If we're not living in the Soviet Union of… — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
The American colonies, all know, were greatly opposed to taxation without representation. They were also, a less celebrated quality, equally opposed to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
By the end of the Twentieth Century, taxation will be reduced to a minimum, the entire world will be open to trade,… — Erastus Wiman Copy Share Image
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The Islamic State is able to raise finances through taxation, through theft of banks, and certainly through oil sales from the Omar… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies. — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose you more money than any single person in your life,… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
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