Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In a general sense, all contributions imposed by the government upon individuals for the service of the state, are called taxes, by… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else. — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's… — Mike Lee Copy Share Image
I will eliminate capital-gains taxes for the small businesses and the startups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
By the end of the Twentieth Century, taxation will be reduced to a minimum, the entire world will be open to trade,… — Erastus Wiman Copy Share Image
Even if you assume that the whole economy would work better had we never had double taxation, having the envy and resentment… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Our anti-crisis policy is aimed at supporting domestic demand, providing social guarantees for the population, and creating new jobs. Like many countries,… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the "right" to education, the "right" to health care, the "right" to food… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a well known and very important fact that America's founding fathers did not like taxation without representation. It is a… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Governments first of all have been able to amass, through the taxation process, large sums of capital which they have redistributed to… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits. — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
If this taxation exemptions for Church were rescinded, our property taxes would be substantially lowered, and those who rent houses and apartments… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose you more money than any single person in your life,… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
The Government is able to afford a suitable army and a suitable navy. It may maintain them without the slightest danger to… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation. — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.” — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
I worry more about the marketing that's taken hold since the 70s. The Jazz era, the Swing era, those were huge. Entire… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
