The American Dream was not about government's taking huge sums of money (under the label of "taxation") from citizens by force. The… — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Your profits are going to be cut down to a reasonably low level by taxation. Your income will be subject to higher… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Inflation is a form of hidden taxation which it is almost impossible to measure. — John J. Beckley Copy Share Image
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible… — Jean-Baptiste Colbert Copy Share Image
Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Any politico who's afraid of his constituents being armed, should be. Leaders of the anti-gun movement (for the most part, politicians who… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration.” — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
Most politicians are ever eager to regulate industrial and commercial activity and strike at the economic elite with confiscatory taxation. Unfortunately, regulation… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation. — Sandy Adams Copy Share Image
Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority… — Anonymous 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
Highly graduate taxation realizes most completely the supreme danger of democracy, creating a state of things in which one class imposes on… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper? — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
“There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
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