Catastrophe Quote by Charles Adams

People starve. The rulers consume too much with their taxes. That is why people starve.

— Laozi

One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.

— Hillary Clinton

But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and…

— Aristotle

Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes…

— Henry Knox

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.

— Mark Skousen

Rulers do not like to admit that their power is restricted by any laws other than those of physics and biology. They never ascribe…

— Ludwig von Mises

When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise them. That's statesmanship of the highest order.

— Will Rogers

A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal eÇŒoyments, it only shifts expenses from…

— Antoine Destutt de Tracy

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.

— Jill Lepore

A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal enjoyments, it only shifts expenses from…

— Antoine Destutt de Tracy

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

— Terry Pratchett

Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.

— David Ricardo