Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
There is no better way to return the matter of taxation to full public discusssion than to repeal the withholding taxes on… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
The true principle of taxation is the benefit principle - those who benefit from a government service should pay for it. It's… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
Short term, the most important thing is to put people back to work ... If they're working, that means they're paying taxes,… — Barack Obama 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
An education system where student selection is based on credit capacity and not merit capacity and where graduating students are no longer… — Gough Whitlam Copy Share Image
We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil… — Thomas Paine 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
