Taxation Quotes · Page 5

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

— Mark Twain

An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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

The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.

— Sting

The estate tax has been a disaster. First of all it's double taxation, some people could even say it's triple taxation.

— Donald Trump

The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.

— Frank Chodorov

Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.

— Frank Chodorov

The biggest review of taxation ever undertaken in this country, is now dead in the water.

— Malcolm Turnbull

We can't constantly explain to our voters that taxpayers have to be on the hook for certain risks, rather than those who…

— Angela Merkel

We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American dream that wealth…

— Ronald Reagan

Close loopholes, close the special interest Washington carve outs and that means more incomes subject to taxation so we're going to lower…

— Paul Ryan

I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's…

— Mike Lee

The fundamental class division in any society is not between rich and poor, or between farmers and city dwellers, but between tax…

— David Boaz

There are always principles to be depended upon in this matter of taxation ... Amidst the inconsistent, the bewildering representations offered, a…

— Harriet Martineau

Our anti-crisis policy is aimed at supporting domestic demand, providing social guarantees for the population, and creating new jobs. Like many countries,…

— Vladimir Putin

I lay this down as a fundamental proposition, which I do not think will be denied, that whoever controls the taxation and…

— George William Russell

The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes…

— Thomas DiLorenzo

It is an absurd fiction that the churches are useful. They are nothing more than propaganda centers for superstitious faiths and doctrines.…

— E. Haldeman-Julius

[Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by…

— Bob Black

it was the United States which first established general suffrage for men upon the two principles that 'taxation without representation is tyranny'…

— Carrie Chapman Catt

There is perhaps, nothing more likely to disturb the tranquillity of nations, than their being bound to mutual contributions for any common…

— Alexander Hamilton

Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and…

— Abraham Lincoln

It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess.…

— Alexander Hamilton

To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the…

— Thomas Jefferson

We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.

— Adam Davidson

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

— Thomas Jefferson

It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field.

— Joe Hockey

Peace and prosperity are inversely proportional to the level of taxation.

— John Pugsley

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

— Rush Limbaugh

Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

— Thomas Jefferson

Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.

— Rick Perry

Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I would suggest the taxation of all property equally whether church or corporation.

— Ulysses S. Grant

What I know is that taxation, as far as liberal Democrats are concerned, is not about money. It's about power.

— Rush Limbaugh

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

— Robert Orben

“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.”

— Ludwig von Mises

Is there a point of taxation wherein even a Democrat would acknowledge it is thievery by the government?

— Dennis Prager

Taxing companies, particularly successful multinational companies, is one of the most progressive forms of taxation.

— Winnie Byanyima

[The Internal Revenue Code is] about 10 times the size of the Bible and, unlike the Bible, contains no good news

— Don Nickles

All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch…

— Walter E. Williams