Avoid Quote by Jacob Rees-Mogg

The point of taxation isn't that the government knows better than you how to spend your money - it's that the government, by virtue…

— Jesse Taylor

By its nature, governments and taxes are not voluntary. Government actions are violent and coercive, and theft as well.

— Jeff Berwick

The role of government is to tax the people to the least extent possible while still taxing them enough to cover the basic needs…

— Dan Crenshaw

Governments that don't need to broaden their tax base have few incentives to respond to the needs of their people.

— Denise Dresser

In other words, governments do not collect taxes to provide services, they provide services as an excuse to collect taxes.

— Richard J. Maybury

Taxation is the legitimate support of government.

— Adolphe Thiers

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

No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as…

— Frederick The Great

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

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

— Frank Chodorov

All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?

— Lawrence Summers

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