I've been told that some members of Congress disagree with my tax cut proposal. Well, you know it's been said that taxation… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Yeah, I am in favor of migration. But I am also in favor of education. But at the same time, I am… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity. — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing; it will be powerfull cement of our… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A good person is one who follows the Ten Commandments and the golden rule. There is plenty of precedent in history to… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Deficit financing proper is rather the process whereby a Government spends more money that it withdraws from the economy by taxation, borrowing,… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
“In particular, the State has arrogated to itself a compulsory monopoly over police and military services, the provision of law, judicial decision-making,… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
The true principle of taxation is the benefit principle - those who benefit from a government service should pay for it. It's… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
There is no better way to return the matter of taxation to full public discusssion than to repeal the withholding taxes on… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
An education system where student selection is based on credit capacity and not merit capacity and where graduating students are no longer… — Gough Whitlam Copy Share Image
We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Let me tell you, that's what taxation is - it's confiscation. It's your money, it's not the government's money. But the government… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
My parents both defected from communist Hungary and were what most people would today call libertarian. I grew up with a general… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose you more money than any single person in your life,… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The government is there day in and day out, if you want all kids to have education, if you want to run… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The Islamic State is able to raise finances through taxation, through theft of banks, and certainly through oil sales from the Omar… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies. — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
“high taxation was not regarded in these years as an affront. On the contrary, steep rates of progressive income tax were seen… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Socialism means government dependency, rationed resources, and exorbitant taxation. It means the destruction of every incentive to achieve. — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
You know what isn't class warfare? Progressive taxation, as in, say, expecting billionaires to pay at least as much in taxes as… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise,… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
One must not allow oneself to skid down to isolationism and unbridled economic egoism. ... The second possible mistake would be excessive… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Is it popular to pay our debts, to do justice, to defend the injured and insulted country, to protect the aged and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible… — Jean-Baptiste Colbert Copy Share Image
Next you will cry about taxation without representation, and throw a basket of tea into the harbor. You are indeed a very… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
