Taxation Quotes · Page 5

The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation.

— Sandy Adams

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

— Edmund Burke

Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten

— 1st Baron Bramwell George Bramwell

Inflation is a form of hidden taxation which it is almost impossible to measure.

— John J. Beckley

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.

— Mark Skousen

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

— Milton Friedman

I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day.

— Ronald Reagan

What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.

— Sam Levenson

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and…

— Anonymous

Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are…

— Ludwig von Mises

I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead…

— Ulysses S. Grant

The American Dream was not about government's taking huge sums of money (under the label of "taxation") from citizens by force. The…

— Robert Ringer

Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing…

— Peter Schiff

The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages…

— Henry Hazlitt

My first rule - the golden rule - ensures that over the economic cycle the Government will borrow only to invest, and…

— Gordon Brown

Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as…

— H. L. Mencken

Your profits are going to be cut down to a reasonably low level by taxation. Your income will be subject to higher…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is a reason for the affected profession of " anarchist sympathies" among Tories and grandees, and of " libertarian principles" by…

— Christopher Hitchens

It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The libertarian sees the State as a giant gang of organized criminals, who live off the theft called "taxation" and use the…

— Murray Rothbard

And to you taxpayers out there, let me say this: Make sure you file your tax return on time! And remember that,…

— Dave Barry

So vast a sum, receiving all the protection and benefits of the government, without bearing its proportion of the burdens and expenses…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“For every dollar that is spent on the (boondoggle) bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers. If the bridge costs…

— Henry Hazlitt

Regarding the Economy & Taxation: America's most successful achievers do pay a higher share of the total tax burden. The top one…

— Rush Limbaugh

But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.

— Steve King

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

— Andrew Jackson

No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.

— George Washington

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

— Bill Vaughan

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

— John Ruskin

The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money

— Nicholas von Hoffman

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

— Mark Twain

The politicians say 'we' can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians.

— Steve Forbes

A small business person has Uncle Sam as a partner, a partner who puts up no money, does no work, and wants…

— Irwin Schiff

The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.

— James Madison

Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form

— Laurence J. Peter

Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.

— Owen Paterson

The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.

— James A. Garfield

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

— Terry Pratchett

Every dollar released from taxation that is spared or invested will help create a new job and a new salary.

— John F. Kennedy

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

— Vladimir Lenin