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Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is a feast of… — George Will
Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time. Although some taxation… — George Will
Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies. — Geoff Mulgan
Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons — Robert Anton Wilson
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. — Mark Twain
This is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free, but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must.… — Robertson Davies
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift… — Winston Churchill
Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own. — Thomas Jefferson
Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them. — Margaret Mitchell
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear… — John Marshall
If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of all moral reflections,… — Thomas Paine
Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection,… — Frederic Bastiat
..either immediately or ultimately every dollar of government spending must be raised through a dollar of taxation. Once we look at the matter. In this… — Henry Hazlitt
We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude.… — Thomas Paine
Next you will cry about taxation without representation, and throw a basket of tea into the harbor. You are indeed a very Jacobin at heart,… — Naomi Novik
Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state or… — James A. Garfield
Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo. — Terry Pratchett
The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility. — Fulton J. Sheen
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing. — Unknown Author
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. — Edmund Burke
At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue… — Ibn Khaldun
Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him… — Robert Nozick
Whether talking about addiction, taxation [on cigarettes] or education [about smoking], there is always at the center of the conversation an essential conundrum: How come… — Anna Quindlen
I have lived and worked in Britain all my life. Not even in the dark days of penal Labour taxation in the Seventies did I… — Andrew Lloyd Webber

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