Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
There's a lot of evidence you can sell people on tax increases if they think it's an investment — Bill Clinton Copy Share Image
The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“Every dollar released from taxation, that is spent or invested, will create a new job and a new salary.” — John Fitzgerald Kennedy Copy Share Image
My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury. — Merton Miller Copy Share Image
The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him. — Robert Ringer 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
If politicians get money to spend and don't have to be responsible for taxation, then of course that will bias their attitude… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
It is evident from the state of the country, from the habits of the people, from the experience we have had on… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I have lived and worked in Britain all my life. Not even in the dark days of penal Labour taxation in the… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Tens of billions ... are going into the pockets of tens of thousands of tax preparers who ... love complexity as much… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
As a taxpayer, you are required to be fully in compliance with the United States Tax Code, which is currently the size… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“What is peculiar and novel to our age is that the principal goal of politics in every advanced society is not, strictly… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Free education, almost free healthcare, a generous benefits system and a better state pension than elsewhere, guarantee equal opportunities for all citizens.… — Tarja Moles Copy Share Image
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Only dramatic cuts in the federal deficit, a rollback of regulations that cripple small and community banks, a cancellation of future tax… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I believe that the 21st century economy is an economy of people, not of factories. The intellectual factor has become increasingly important… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“Green recorded these initial thoughts about government: "Either the people will pay direct taxes, or they will pay none if they know… — Michael Rubbinaccio Copy Share Image
More investment sins are probably committed by otherwise quite intelligent people because of "tax considerations" than from any other cause. One of… — Warren Buffett 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
There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse. — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
We really need to change taxation policy so that it is not skewed against owning more than one house. — Andrew Forrest Copy Share Image
Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation. — Fletcher Knebel Copy Share Image
Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
I know a bit about taxation and the remarkable effort that goes in to avoiding it. — Robert Rinder Copy Share Image
Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized. — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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