Taxation Quotes

235 quotes by 165 authors

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn. — Edward Abbey
The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation. — Sandy Adams
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
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
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
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax. — Charles Kettering
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
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
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
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
Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation. — Fletcher Knebel
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
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
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
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
Tax reform means, "Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree." — Russell B. Long
The United States has a system of taxation by confession — Hugo Black
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
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
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

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