Consumption Quote by Benjamin Franklin Download Open image “Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.” — Benjamin Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consumption Income Taxes Uniforms
There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion. — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike. — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
It is fairer to tax people on what they extract from the economy, as roughly measured by their consumption, than to tax them on… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
A consumption tax, a national sales tax makes some sense. But I think that if we move towards a Fair Tax, if we move… — Ken Buck Copy Share Image
If we were starting from scratch, there's no question a simple retail consumption tax with protections for those with lower incomes would drive the… — Kevin Brady Copy Share Image
If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised. This review shows… — Salmon P. Chase Copy Share
The best taxes are such as are levied upon consumptions, especially those of luxury; because such taxes are least felt by the people. They… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The Americans are right: there should not be taxation unless the people consent to it. And it should be fair, which means the nobility… — Michelle Moran Copy Share Image
A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal enjoyments, it only shifts expenses from… — Antoine Destutt de Tracy Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent to that… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
Over-consumption is a cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
The Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program is a very effective way to raise awareness and consumption of two vital food groups that are sometimes… — Michael Dean Crapo Copy Share Image
On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Americans don't eat horses. They are not raised as food animals and they are treated with chemicals that render them unsafe for consumption. The… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.” — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image