I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
Inflation is taxation and taxation is theft that takes more money out of hard-working Americans' pocket books. — Lauren Boebert Copy Share Image
Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them. — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the… — Andrew Mellon Copy Share Image
The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs: in the hands of the working men and… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
We fought the Revolutionary War for no taxation without representation, it seems to me that we are much worse off today, because… — James Montgomery Copy Share Image
“In particular, the State has arrogated to itself a compulsory monopoly over police and military services, the provision of law, judicial decision-making,… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
Deficit financing proper is rather the process whereby a Government spends more money that it withdraws from the economy by taxation, borrowing,… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, the Southern and Western desert and mountain states will vote for the candidate who endorses an aggressive military, a role… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The United States has already passed on as the world's economic leader. Having flouted Thomas Jefferson for too long, America has succumbed… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The rates of taxation climb and the levels of capital decline, until the only remaining wealth beyond the reach of the regime… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“If you personally advocate that I be caged if I don't pay for whatever "government" things YOU want, please don't pretend to… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the… — Andrew Mellon Copy Share Image
A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. — Thomas Tusser Copy Share Image
Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal — Learned Hand 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
All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working? — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
That's the "magic" of double-taxation treaties: you can shop around for the lowest taxer. — Michael Hudson 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
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 level of taxation is driven by spending. Less spending leads to lower taxes. — Gregory D Hess Copy Share Image
Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
As a general rule, governments are wise to avoid taxation that is voluntary, as they need a steady stream of income. — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
