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The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw… — Andrew Mellon
The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw… — Andrew Mellon
... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation… — Thomas Jefferson
[Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by the state display… — Bob Black
The point of taxation isn't that the government knows better than you how to spend your money - it's that the government, by virtue of… — Jesse Taylor
Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and… — John Roberts
...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women, merely as women,… — John Stuart Mill
It appears to be uncertain whether the journey of Mary with her husband was obligatory or voluntary. . . . Women were liable to a… — Frederic Farrar
All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people — Henry Adams
The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings,… — Thomas Jefferson
Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may have been different,… — Simon Schama
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. — Mark Skousen
It’s been easier to convince people to hand over half their income, their children to war, and their freedoms in perpetuity - than to engage… — Stefan Molyneux
Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away — Ludwig von Mises
When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare and health and… — Jimmy Carter
No taxation without respiration. — Tom Feeney
I believe that the levels of taxation advocated by liberals render those taxes a veiled form of theft. 'Give me more than half of your… — Dennis Prager
I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation. — Lucy Stone
Your profits are going to be cut down to a reasonably low level by taxation. Your income will be subject to higher taxes. Indeed in… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration. — Steve King
It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like… — Murray Rothbard
Is there a point of taxation wherein even a Democrat would acknowledge it is thievery by the government? — Dennis Prager
Strictly speaking, it probably is not “necessary” for the federal government to tax anyone directly; it could simply print the money it needs. However, that… — Ron Paul
The libertarian sees the State as a giant gang of organized criminals, who live off the theft called "taxation" and use the proceeds to kill,… — Murray Rothbard
If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely,… — Edmund Barton

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