Taxation Quotes · Page 7

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

— Rush Limbaugh

“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

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

— Malcolm Turnbull

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

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

— Anonymous

Governments last only as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed

— Bernard Berenson

I have lived and worked in Britain all my life. Not even in the dark days of penal Labour taxation in the…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

If politicians get money to spend and don't have to be responsible for taxation, then of course that will bias their attitude…

— James M. Buchanan

Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed America is capable of great things and its people could and would lead the way if…

— Anonymous

Of course, there's been a real debate about where to invest and where to cut, and I'm committed to working with members…

— Barack Obama

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may…

— Benjamin Franklin

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws.

— Mariano Rajoy

When this country here was first being founded, there were 13 colonies. The whites were colonized. They were fed up with this…

— Manning Marable

As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to…

— Alexander Hamilton

The British Empire was so vast and so powerful, the sun would never set on it. This is how big it was,…

— Malcolm X

“You say, "There are men who have no money," and you apply the law. But the law is not a self-supplied fountain,…

— Bastiat, Frederick

You could not possibly maintain the current level of government taxation without the taxes being hidden, and they are hidden in two…

— Milton Friedman

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

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

“Free education, almost free healthcare, a generous benefits system and a better state pension than elsewhere, guarantee equal opportunities for all citizens.…

— Tarja Moles

I believe that the 21st century economy is an economy of people, not of factories. The intellectual factor has become increasingly important…

— Vladimir Putin

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

— Bernard Berenson

[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

If the exercise of power of internal taxation by the Union should be discovered on experiment to be really inconvenient, the federal…

— Alexander Hamilton

He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be;…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Even if you assume that the whole economy would work better had we never had double taxation, having the envy and resentment…

— Charlie Munger

I don't have a chance [on being elected Mayor of New Orleans]. I'm running on the gay marriage, no religion, legalization and…

— Brad Pitt

What I agree with is that we need a significantly changed taxation system. And the one that I've advocated is based on…

— Benjamin Carson

“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion…

— Stefan Molyneux

The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon…

— Eric Pianka

Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last…

— Ogden Nash

“Heavy taxation means that a large part of all available capital accumulated in one place – the state coffers – and consequently…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing…

— Robert Nozick

Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.

— John Maynard Keynes