Bears Quote by Jean-Baptiste Say

The taxes of government are heavy enough, but not so heavy as the taxes we lay upon ourselves.

— Orville Dewey

Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.

— Benjamin Franklin

People are taxed enough.

— Doug Ford

Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had…

— Benjamin Franklin

Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four…

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Mark Skousen

So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its…

— John Quincy Adams

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

— Michael Madigan

“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 Americans are right: there should not be taxation unless the people consent to it. And it should be fair, which means the nobility…

— Michelle Moran

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

— Frank Chodorov

Our tax code should reflect our values.

— Dean Phillips