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No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not… — Frederick The Great
If the Negro knows enough to pay taxes to support the government, he knows enough to vote; taxation and representation should go together. If he… — Frederick Douglass
You could not possibly maintain the current level of government taxation without the taxes being hidden, and they are hidden in two very different ways.… — Milton Friedman
It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Men like Henry George [ the pioneer of land value taxation] are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic… — Albert Einstein
In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary. — Ayn Rand
More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid… — Winston Churchill
It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money. — Margaret Thatcher
Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional… — Ronald Reagan
National Health? Socialized pension funds? State-controlled television? Search and seizure laws? Forfeiture laws? If we're not living in the Soviet Union of the United States… — Michael Moriarty
I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's a form of… — Mike Lee
It is my view that what is important is cutting government spending, however spending is financed. A so-called deficit is a disguised and hidden form… — Milton Friedman
I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them. — Mark Twain
No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of… — John Ruskin
Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed… — Karl Marx
It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that excessive revenues are… — Thomas Paine
Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked the woman what here sorrow was,… — Lin Yutang
The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work. — Calvin Trillin
The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes and constitutional protections… — Thomas DiLorenzo
We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws. — Mariano Rajoy
The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about… — Mike Lee
The officers of Congress, may come upon you now, fortified with all the terrors of paramount federal authority. Excisemen taxmen may come in multitudes; for… — Patrick Henry
Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him — Fiorello H. La Guardia
By operating independently of government aid, the churches . . . avoid the resentment of those who do not want to be forced to contribute… — John M Swomley
So vast a sum, receiving all the protection and benefits of the government, without bearing its proportion of the burdens and expenses of the same,… — Ulysses S. Grant

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