Taxation Quotes
235 quotes by 165 authors
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Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.
— Edward Abbey
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The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation.
— Sandy Adams
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No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local,…
— Rita Mae Brown
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Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.
— Art Buchwald
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The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
— Charles Kettering
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Taxation is not a method by which the community corporately provides itself with essential services, but a fund to be divided between different interests with…
— Neville Chamberlain
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The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of…
— William Cobbett
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When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses…
— Grover Cleveland
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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
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
— Fletcher Knebel
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The American Dream was not about government's taking huge sums of money (under the label of "taxation") from citizens by force. The American Dream was…
— Robert Ringer
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People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is no way to…
— Joseph Sobran
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If politicians were serious about day care for children, instead of just sloganizing about it, nothing they could do would improve the quality of child…
— Thomas Sowell
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In 1850, I believe, the church property in the United States, which paid no tax, amounted to $87 million. In 1900, without a check, it…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Tax reform means, "Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree."
— Russell B. Long
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The United States has a system of taxation by confession
— Hugo Black
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The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would obtain progressive taxation to the…
— Vilfredo Pareto
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The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of…
— Eric Pianka
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Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation…
— Abraham Lincoln
Who Wrote These Taxation Quotes
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