Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Peace and prosperity are inversely proportional to the level of taxation. — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs: in the hands of the working men and… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary. — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped. — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Confiscatory taxation enforced by threat of imprisonment is 'stealing,' a practice strongly frowned upon by our Creator. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike. — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him. — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them. — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Aggression hides in our culture under many names. Taxation is only an example, but one of the most widespread and uneconomical. If… — Mary J. Ruwart Copy Share Image
I believe in taxation and health care that is outside the usual libertarian mandate, because I don't want people to have to… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess.… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
Obama remains frozen in his father's time machine. His anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of Africa in the 1950s: state confiscation of land,… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
The best way for the Government to maintain its credit is to pay as it goes-not by resorting to loans, but by… — William McKinley Copy Share Image
“A person who says “every person has a right to a decent education” may not actually mean “people should be robbed to… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
“As clear as it is important, the death of Detroit is still mostly ignored. Generally, the slow destruction of a major city… — Daniel Greenup Copy Share Image
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they come out… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
[Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by… — Bob Black Copy Share Image
It is an absurd fiction that the churches are useful. They are nothing more than propaganda centers for superstitious faiths and doctrines.… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The tax upon land values is the most just and equal of all taxes. It falls only upon those who receive from… — Henry George Copy Share Image
What really gets me is this - it's very ironic that those who are most critical of extra tax are those who… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
No government can provide social security. It is not in the nature of government to be able to provide anything. Government itself… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury. — Merton Miller Copy Share Image
There's a lot of evidence you can sell people on tax increases if they think it's an investment — Bill Clinton Copy Share Image
When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The cost of taxpayer compliance with [the tax code] is over $80 billion per year, more than eight times the cost of… — Charles O. Rossotti Copy Share Image
No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Tens of billions ... are going into the pockets of tens of thousands of tax preparers who ... love complexity as much… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image