Federal taxes Quote by Anonymous

You could not possibly maintain the current level of government taxation without the taxes being hidden, and they are hidden in two very different…

— Milton Friedman

Here's a brave old reality, taxes don't go away; raising them never generates revenue, never ever ever.

— Neil Cavuto

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government…

— Alan Keyes

After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes…

— Pat Toomey

No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as…

— Frederick The Great

I don't think revenue in any one day, week, month or year should determine long-term tax policy.

— Tate Reeves

The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to the taxpayer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond either the interests or the…

— Franklin Pierce

The Founding Fathers realized that "the power to tax is the power to destroy," which is why they did not give the Federal government…

— Ron Paul

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

— Bernard Berenson

A certain amount of taxes is of course indispensable to carry on essential government functions. Reasonable taxes for this purpose need not hurt production…

— Henry Hazlitt

We have historically tended to run fairly steady levels of government tax revenue as a percentage of gross domestic product and expenditures at around 20%.

— Scott Bessent

Could America exist without an income tax? The idea seems radical, yet in truth America did just fine without a federal income tax for…

— Ron Paul