Commodity Quote by David Hume

The sales tax is the best and most equitable tax. The gasoline tax, which is nothing but a sales tax, has proven painless, productive…

— Will Rogers

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

Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not…

— Alfred de Musset

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

I have endeavoured to show that the ability to pay taxes depends, not on the gross money value of the mass of commodities, nor…

— David Ricardo

People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is fairer to tax people on what they extract from the economy, as roughly measured by their consumption, than to tax them on…

— Thomas Hobbes

There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.

— Frank Chodorov

[High income tax rates] not only check consumption but discourage investment and encourage...the avoidance of taxes [rather] than the production of goods.[...]Our present tax…

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Mark Skousen

“Tax systems are essentially the mechanisms by which societies decide what people have to share with each other versus what they can keep for…

— Martin Adams

Taxes are a barbaric remnant of ancient times in which early farmers, tied to the land, no longer able to roam freely, unable to…

— L. Neil Smith