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If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such… — Henry David Thoreau
It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part. — Benjamin Franklin
The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them. — E. W. Howe
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories, in tax-sold farms,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Well, I don't think it is amnesty to start with. Second of all, what do you want to do with them? That is the question… — John McCain
I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a… — Thomas Jefferson
And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any of this crap. For God's… — Dennis Miller
Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and… — Ariel Dorfman
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. — Benjamin Franklin
Shout out to all my niggas livin tax free. Nowadays it's six figures when they tax me. — Drake
'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
It's just the stupidest law possible... You're just making criminals out of people who aren't engaged in criminal activity. And we're spending zillions of dollars… — Morgan Freeman
Now, because he knows that his economic theories don't work, he's been spending these last few days calling me every name in the book. Lately… — Barack Obama
...balance the budget ? Tax religion. — Jello Biafra
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. — Nicolas Chamfort
Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled. — Noam Chomsky
I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but… — Lewis H. Lapham
There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore… — Murray Rothbard
To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty… — John Stuart Mill
We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
[S]tatism is but socialized dishonesty; it is feathering the nests of some with feathers coercively plucked from others - on the grand scale. There is… — Leonard Read
A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill. — Hans F. Sennholz
If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so… — Henry David Thoreau
Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly "reforming" their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact that they're… — Lawrence Reed
There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion. — Frank Chodorov

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