Taxation Quotes · Page 6

I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.

— Lucy Stone

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

— Margaret Mitchell

The politicians say 'we' can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians.

— Steve Forbes

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

— Mark Twain

The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.

— James Madison

Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form

— Laurence J. Peter

A small business person has Uncle Sam as a partner, a partner who puts up no money, does no work, and wants…

— Irwin Schiff

Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.

— Owen Paterson

Tens of billions ... are going into the pockets of tens of thousands of tax preparers who ... love complexity as much…

— Nicholas von Hoffman

No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing…

— John Ruskin

As a taxpayer, you are required to be fully in compliance with the United States Tax Code, which is currently the size…

— Dave Barry

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which…

— Adam Smith

We can't constantly explain to our voters that taxpayers have to be on the hook for certain risks, rather than those who…

— Angela Merkel

No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to…

— Rita Mae Brown

We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American dream that wealth…

— Ronald Reagan

Close loopholes, close the special interest Washington carve outs and that means more incomes subject to taxation so we're going to lower…

— Paul Ryan

In a general sense, all contributions imposed by the government upon individuals for the service of the state, are called taxes, by…

— Joseph Story

“There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those of any historical or prehistorical tyranny. Socialism is…

— Ayn Rand

It is not possible to starve an organised terrorist group because it is number one a state, so it levies taxation inside…

— Loretta Napoleoni

When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare…

— Jimmy Carter

“What is peculiar and novel to our age is that the principal goal of politics in every advanced society is not, strictly…

— W.H. Auden

Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with…

— James F. Cooper

Only dramatic cuts in the federal deficit, a rollback of regulations that cripple small and community banks, a cancellation of future tax…

— Dick Morris

Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal…

— Robert Anton Wilson

The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.

— James A. Garfield

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

— Andrew Jackson

No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.

— George Washington

The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money

— Nicholas von Hoffman

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

— John Ruskin

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

— Bill Vaughan

[The Internal Revenue Code is] about 10 times the size of the Bible and, unlike the Bible, contains no good news

— Don Nickles

Is there a point of taxation wherein even a Democrat would acknowledge it is thievery by the government?

— Dennis Prager

Taxing companies, particularly successful multinational companies, is one of the most progressive forms of taxation.

— Winnie Byanyima

All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch…

— Walter E. Williams

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

— Malcolm Turnbull

“A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration.”

— Robert Higgs

“The art of taxation consists of plucking the goose so as to obtain the most feathers with the least hissing.”

— Jean-Baptiste Colbert

After the government takes enough to balance the budget, the taxpayer has the job of budgeting the balance.

— Anonymous

The better an entrepreneur succeeds, the more is he vilified and themore is he soaked by taxation.

— Ludwig von Mises

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

— Peg Bracken