Taxation Quotes

Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.

— Margaret Thatcher

Revolutions about taxation have shaped our history.

— Priti Patel

If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America.

— Edmund Burke

A fool and his money are soon partying.

— Steven Wright

This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair.

— Doc Hastings

“Inflation is taxation without representation.”

— Milton Friedman

A fool and his money are soon married.

— Carolyn Wells

The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and '20s.

— Thomas Piketty

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

— Margaret Thatcher

We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax.

— Dick Spring

The level of taxation is driven by spending. Less spending leads to lower taxes.

— Gregory D Hess

That's the "magic" of double-taxation treaties: you can shop around for the lowest taxer.

— Michael Hudson

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

— Milton Friedman

All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?

— Lawrence Summers

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

— Mark Twain

As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to…

— Alexander Hamilton

If the exercise of power of internal taxation by the Union should be discovered on experiment to be really inconvenient, the federal…

— Alexander Hamilton

He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be;…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws.

— Mariano Rajoy

When this country here was first being founded, there were 13 colonies. The whites were colonized. They were fed up with this…

— Manning Marable

Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.

— John Maynard Keynes

“Heavy taxation means that a large part of all available capital accumulated in one place – the state coffers – and consequently…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing…

— Robert Nozick

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

...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women,…

— John Stuart Mill

Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a…

— Ronald Reagan

Some 'separation' zealots would expunge any vestige of religious observance in public schools. Many of the same anti-religious fanatics would like to…

— Russell Kirk

It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that…

— Thomas Paine

You could not possibly maintain the current level of government taxation without the taxes being hidden, and they are hidden in two…

— Milton Friedman

“You say, "There are men who have no money," and you apply the law. But the law is not a self-supplied fountain,…

— Bastiat, Frederick

The British Empire was so vast and so powerful, the sun would never set on it. This is how big it was,…

— Malcolm X

The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part…

— Adam Smith

If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of…

— Thomas Paine

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

The cult of the omnipotent state has millions of followers in the united States. Americans of today view their government in the…

— Jacob G. Hornberger

“Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more sellers by means of…

— George Reisman

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

Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked the woman what…

— Lin Yutang

Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule…

— Maurice Strong