Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized. — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The government is there day in and day out, if you want all kids to have education, if you want to run… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax. — Dick Spring Copy Share Image
Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride.… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it… — Thomas Paine 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 necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, it probably is not “necessary” for the federal government to tax anyone directly; it could simply print the money it… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The right-of-centre parties still often compete with left-of-centre ones to proclaim their attachment to all the main programmes of spending, particularly spending… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Socialism means government dependency, rationed resources, and exorbitant taxation. It means the destruction of every incentive to achieve. — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is… — Joseph Sobran 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
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
My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury. — Merton Miller Copy Share Image
You talk to any of the job creators, and they'll tell you one of the things that concerns them the most is… — Jeb Hensarling Copy Share Image
Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies. — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of… — Thomas Paine 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
When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
