When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
There's a lot of evidence you can sell people on tax increases if they think it's an investment — Bill Clinton Copy Share Image
Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike. — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Confiscatory taxation enforced by threat of imprisonment is 'stealing,' a practice strongly frowned upon by our Creator. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse. — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him. — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
We fought the Revolutionary War for no taxation without representation, it seems to me that we are much worse off today, because… — James Montgomery Copy Share Image
Obama remains frozen in his father's time machine. His anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of Africa in the 1950s: state confiscation of land,… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
The best way for the Government to maintain its credit is to pay as it goes-not by resorting to loans, but by… — William McKinley Copy Share Image
“A person who says “every person has a right to a decent education” may not actually mean “people should be robbed to… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list --… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
it was the United States which first established general suffrage for men upon the two principles that 'taxation without representation is tyranny'… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
There is perhaps, nothing more likely to disturb the tranquillity of nations, than their being bound to mutual contributions for any common… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is an absurd fiction that the churches are useful. They are nothing more than propaganda centers for superstitious faiths and doctrines.… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes… — Thomas DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they come out… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“Aggression hides in our culture under many names. Taxation is only an example, but one of the most widespread and uneconomical. If… — Mary J. Ruwart Copy Share Image
“The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“They are subjected to all manner of taxes: the tithe, the hearth tax and the capitation tax. When all those are paid,… — Simon Scarrow Copy Share Image
I think that the spirit of America is still very much one of where people want to work hard and the majority… — Robin Leach Copy Share Image
It is also true that the less possible it becomes for a man to acquire a new fortune, the more must the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“If you personally advocate that I be caged if I don't pay for whatever "government" things YOU want, please don't pretend to… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the… — Andrew Mellon Copy Share Image
Uncertainty hurts business. It annoys individuals. Why keep the whole country, including business and individuals, in uncertainty over the extent of the… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
It is urged that the use of the masculine pronouns he, his, and him in all the constitutions and laws, is proof… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
