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
Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden… — Edmund Barton Copy Share Image
All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
It’s been easier to convince people to hand over half their income, their children to war, and their freedoms in perpetuity -… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone… — Arthur Laffer 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
“If the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the State, if it were convinced that the State… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“the regional governments can't raise taxes. The source of revenue would simply leave for another region. In fact, the effect of decentralization… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Frankly speaking, we all know that provoking military and political instability, regional, and other conflicts is a helpful means of distracting the… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Never forget that no government has wealth of its own to spend. The money has to come from taxation, monetary inflation, or… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
The only beneficiaries of income taxation are the politicians, for it not only gives them the means by which they can increase… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
In 1850, I believe, the church property in the United States, which paid no tax, amounted to $87 million. In 1900, without… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
If all those magnificent cathedrals with their valuable lands in Boston, Philadelphia and New York were taxed as they should be, the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't… — Gore Vidal 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
“When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that an old source is abandoned. It merely means… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I believe that the levels of taxation advocated by liberals render those taxes a veiled form of theft. 'Give me more than… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange, Although he fleeced the flags of every nation, For into a prime minister… — Lord Byron 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
The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
We must seek support in the moral values that have ensured the progress of our civilization. Honesty and hard work, responsibility and… — Vladimir Putin 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
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
If you believe women are constituted differently to men then remove taxation from them. But if you're a democrat and you believe… — James Munro Copy Share Image
“The State obtains its revenue by coercion, by threatening dire penalties should the income not be forthcoming. That coercion is known as… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
With various people complaining about "price gouging... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
GST is good idea! It brings hope for a better future. Under the new taxation regime, fruits, vegetables, pulses, wheat, bread and… — Amrapali Gupta Copy Share Image
Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
There various news I heard of love and strife,Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,Of loss and gain, of famine… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A government is a compulsory territorial monopolist of ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction) and, implied in this, a compulsory territorial monopolist of taxation. That… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
Highly graduate taxation realizes most completely the supreme danger of democracy, creating a state of things in which one class imposes on… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky 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
By operating independently of government aid, the churches . . . avoid the resentment of those who do not want to be… — John M Swomley 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
The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3… — James Madison Copy Share Image