Constitution Quote by G. Edward Griffin

If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines…

— Salmon P. Chase

A tax is something people pay out of income.

— Grant Shapps

Taxation is not a method by which the community corporately provides itself with essential services, but a fund to be divided between different interests…

— Neville Chamberlain

Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not…

— Ludwig von Mises

When, as an individual, you are not paying taxes, it is evasion. As a corporate, it is legal shrewdness or tax engineering.

— Jose Angel Gurria

This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair.

— Doc Hastings

In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal

— Learned Hand

Why do we fully tax some kinds of income from capital, like interest and dividends; partially tax other kinds like capital gains; defer tax…

— Bill Bradley

A tax is money levied on a persons property, business or pleasure. A taxilevies money to get to a persons property, business or pleasure.

— Robert D Dangoor

Who pays property taxes? We all do, either directly in property tax bills or through higher rents and other costs.

— Michelle Steel

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

— Herbert Spencer

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

— James Otis