Certain Quote by Harriet Martineau

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.

— David Ricardo

I hold that two principles are important; first that there should be a steady expansion of public services, not an irregular one related to…

— John James Cowperthwaite

My view is that taxation ought to be based upon ability to pay.

— Michael Madigan

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

“But as to honour, justice, wisdom, and learning, they should not be taxed at all; because they are qualifications of so singular a kind,…

— Jonathan Swift

The true principle of taxation is the benefit principle - those who benefit from a government service should pay for it. It's also known…

— Mark Skousen

Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike.

— Jean-Baptiste Say

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

— Frank Chodorov

The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.

— Benjamin Cardozo

“should a legislator, wishing to impose a new tax, choose that which would be theoretically the most just? By no means. In practice the…

— Gustave Le Bon

The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.

— Frank Chodorov