We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
A state is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
When it comes to giving tax breaks to the wealthy of this country, the President has a heart of gold. — Tip O'Neill Copy Share Image
If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
New taxes are so unpopular that most 'social' handout schemes are originally enacted without enough increased taxation to pay for them. The… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Tariffs protect ill-considered government policies, such as costly regulations and high taxes on labor and capital that make our goods uncompetitive in… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
President Bush says he now wants to simplify the tax code. Only those in the blue states will pay. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
One of the most important things for a country, particularly when it's seeking to attract long-term capital in big risky projects that… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
Unfortunately the Republican tax cut will deny important revenues to many states facing their own deficits. This will create greater pressure for… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
South Africa does not have a poverty problem. Poverty is a result of denialism of the way corruption taxes poor people, the… — Mamphela Ramphele Copy Share Image
It has been a long road. From a mountain coolie, a bearer of loads, to a wearer of a coat with rows… — Tenzing Norgay Copy Share Image
The current tax code is harder to understand than Bob Dylan reading Finnegans Wake in a wind tunnel. — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Both ground- rents and the ordinary rent of land are a species of revenue which the owner, in many cases, enjoys without… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I think Americans are - particularly, independent voters are looking at Washington, and they see too many taxes, too much spending, too… — Lamar Alexander Copy Share Image
The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I do think that Republicans are flirting with their tax cut, which has always been the narcotic of Republicans, that they in… — Mark Shields 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
I am humbly following in your footsteps and having a row with the Government over the iniquity of the Marriage Tax in… — Marie Stopes Copy Share Image
We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Honestly so much money gets taken for taxes from contest winnings that you have to be smart with it. People think that… — Nyjah Huston Copy Share Image
The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest. — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good. — Camilla Lackberg Copy Share Image
You don't boost growth by cutting taxes, you do that by giving money to people. — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
