I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten — 1st Baron Bramwell George Bramwell Copy Share Image
The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try. — Sting Copy Share Image
The estate tax has been a disaster. First of all it's double taxation, some people could even say it's triple taxation. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized. — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know a bit about taxation and the remarkable effort that goes in to avoiding it. — Robert Rinder Copy Share Image
Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead… — Ulysses S. Grant 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
Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
The United States has already passed on as the world's economic leader. Having flouted Thomas Jefferson for too long, America has succumbed… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is a reason for the affected profession of " anarchist sympathies" among Tories and grandees, and of " libertarian principles" by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“So why don’t Americans cheat? Because they think that their system is legitimate. People accept authority when they see that it treats… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Deficit financing proper is rather the process whereby a Government spends more money that it withdraws from the economy by taxation, borrowing,… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
“In particular, the State has arrogated to itself a compulsory monopoly over police and military services, the provision of law, judicial decision-making,… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, the Southern and Western desert and mountain states will vote for the candidate who endorses an aggressive military, a role… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more sellers by means of… — George Reisman Copy Share Image
“If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“But who would build the roads if there were no government? You mean to tell me that 300 million people in this… — Larken Rose 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
“Property taxes' rank right up there with 'income taxes' in terms of immorality and destructiveness. Where 'income taxes' are simply slavery using… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
