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 Copy Share Image
The physical power to get the money does not seem to me a test of the right to tax. Might does not… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Men like Henry George [ the pioneer of land value taxation] are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are US government institutions. They are not... they are private credit monopolies which prey upon… — Louis Thomas McFadden Copy Share Image
A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward… — James Madison Copy Share Image
What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then,… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is my view that what is important is cutting government spending, however spending is financed. A so-called deficit is a disguised… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
it was the United States which first established general suffrage for men upon the two principles that 'taxation without representation is tyranny'… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The fundamental class division in any society is not between rich and poor, or between farmers and city dwellers, but between tax… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My plan has all that. It's energy independence. It will help our economy. It's a significant tax cut for corporations, including automatic… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
