Taxation Quotes · Page 4

Abolish all taxation save that upon land values.

— Henry George

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

— Edward Abbey

We really need to change taxation policy so that it is not skewed against owning more than one house.

— Andrew Forrest

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

— Oscar Wilde

Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

— Thomas Jefferson

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

— Fletcher Knebel

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.

— Mark Skousen

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

— Ronald Reagan

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

— Milton Friedman

But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.

— Steve King

“A government is a territorial monopolist of compulsion-an agency which may engage in continual, institutionalized property rights violations and the expropriation, taxation…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

I believe in taxation and health care that is outside the usual libertarian mandate, because I don't want people to have to…

— Neil Peart

All the forms of double taxation in the current system are punitive and self-destructive because they are literally destroying people's incentive to…

— Daniel J. Mitchell

This is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free, but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave…

— Robertson Davies

The cost of taxpayer compliance with [the tax code] is over $80 billion per year, more than eight times the cost of…

— Charles O. Rossotti

The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual…

— James A. Garfield

If the Negro knows enough to pay taxes to support the government, he knows enough to vote; taxation and representation should go…

— Frederick Douglass

I think if you look back through time, the history of income, wealth and taxation is full of surprise. So I am…

— Thomas Piketty

Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and…

— Abraham Lincoln

It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess.…

— Alexander Hamilton

What really gets me is this - it's very ironic that those who are most critical of extra tax are those who…

— Margaret Thatcher

No government can provide social security. It is not in the nature of government to be able to provide anything. Government itself…

— Garet Garrett

If we are true to Canada, if we do not desire to become part and parcel of these people, we cannot overlook…

— Thomas D'Arcy McGee

My family achieved success not in spite of, but because of the American system of taxation. After all, without reliable and safe…

— Abigail Disney

What will drive people if they don't have money or reward? The reward is the end of war, the end of poverty,…

— Jacque Fresco

The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in…

— James A. Garfield

The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

“Property taxes' rank right up there with 'income taxes' in terms of immorality and destructiveness. Where 'income taxes' are simply slavery using…

— Larken Rose

What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.

— Sam Levenson

Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.

— Murray Rothbard

As a general rule, governments are wise to avoid taxation that is voluntary, as they need a steady stream of income.

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

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

— Sandy Adams

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

— Edmund Burke

Inflation is a form of hidden taxation which it is almost impossible to measure.

— John J. Beckley

Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten

— 1st Baron Bramwell George Bramwell

The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and '20s.

— Thomas Piketty

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

— Michael Hudson

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

— Milton Friedman

All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?

— Lawrence Summers

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

— Margaret Thatcher