After the government takes enough to balance the budget, the taxpayer has the job of budgeting the balance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The better an entrepreneur succeeds, the more is he vilified and themore is he soaked by taxation. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents? — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable! — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
“The art of taxation consists of plucking the goose so as to obtain the most feathers with the least hissing.” — Jean-Baptiste Colbert Copy Share Image
“A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration.” — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Governments last only as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Being a rapper is all fun and games until tax season rolls around and you can't recall exactly how many racks on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some doomsayers think the collapse will be triggered by runaway government spending, excessive taxation, oppressive regulation, food shortages, fuel shortages or natural… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“A person who says “every person has a right to a decent education” may not actually mean “people should be robbed to… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Obama remains frozen in his father's time machine. His anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of Africa in the 1950s: state confiscation of land,… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they come out… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“Aggression hides in our culture under many names. Taxation is only an example, but one of the most widespread and uneconomical. If… — Mary J. Ruwart Copy Share Image
“The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
If we are true to Canada, if we do not desire to become part and parcel of these people, we cannot overlook… — Thomas D'Arcy McGee Copy Share Image
My family achieved success not in spite of, but because of the American system of taxation. After all, without reliable and safe… — Abigail Disney Copy Share Image
What will drive people if they don't have money or reward? The reward is the end of war, the end of poverty,… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
What really gets me is this - it's very ironic that those who are most critical of extra tax are those who… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
No government can provide social security. It is not in the nature of government to be able to provide anything. Government itself… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome. — James Madison Copy Share Image
A small business person has Uncle Sam as a partner, a partner who puts up no money, does no work, and wants… — Irwin Schiff Copy Share Image
The politicians say 'we' can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians. — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation. — Owen Paterson Copy Share Image
The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant. — George Washington Copy Share Image
I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader. — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
