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
It is also true that the less possible it becomes for a man to acquire a new fortune, the more must the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
If the exercise of power of internal taxation by the Union should be discovered on experiment to be really inconvenient, the federal… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You could not possibly maintain the current level of government taxation without the taxes being hidden, and they are hidden in two… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time… — John Maynard Keynes 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
The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and '20s. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic… — John F. Kennedy 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
We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws. — Mariano Rajoy Copy Share Image
Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
Every dollar released from taxation that is spared or invested will help create a new job and a new salary. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if… — Mike Lee Copy Share Image
Contrary to any claim of a systematically “neutral” effect of taxation on production, the consequence of any such shortening of roundabout methods… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe 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
Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon… — Eric Pianka 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
If we are true to Canada, if we do not desire to become part and parcel of these people, we cannot overlook… — Thomas D'Arcy McGee Copy Share Image
Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more… — Grover Norquist 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
It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. The funds that… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image