We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My first rule - the golden rule - ensures that over the economic cycle the Government will borrow only to invest, and… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is a reason for the affected profession of " anarchist sympathies" among Tories and grandees, and of " libertarian principles" by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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 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
Any politico who's afraid of his constituents being armed, should be. Leaders of the anti-gun movement (for the most part, politicians who… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If this taxation exemptions for Church were rescinded, our property taxes would be substantially lowered, and those who rent houses and apartments… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The churches rose to power on the income from tax-free property. What earthly -or heavenly- right have they got to enjoy a… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair 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
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
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
I'm willing to fight for Social Security, Medicare, student loans, U.S. jobs, equal pay, progressive taxation and full employment. — Alan Grayson 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who advocate either slavery or income taxation should be ashamed of themselves. Genuine freedom entails the abolition, not the reform, of… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
It's income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Our loyalty lies with little taxpayers, not big spenders. What our critics really believe is that those in Washington know better how… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The surest way for a poor nation to stay poor is to harass, hobble, and straitjacket private enterprise or to discourage or… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous. — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The point of taxation isn't that the government knows better than you how to spend your money - it's that the government,… — Jesse Taylor Copy Share Image
