Analogies Quote by Joseph A. Schumpeter

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

[The taxing power of the state] divides the community into two great classes: one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the taxes and,…

— John C. Calhoun

The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent.

— Will Rogers

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than…

— Anonymous

We may be assured by past experience, that such a practice [as some states charging high taxes on goods from other states] would be…

— James Madison

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

“The many governments within a single metropolitan area are almost designed to fight among themselves because state law makes them largely dependent on locally…

— Bruce Katz

“By rendering their enterprises profitable, the consumers shift control of the factors of production into the hands of those businessmen who serve them best.…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

If one individual, or one class, can call in the aid of authority to ward off the effects of competition, it acquires a privilege…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

“The State obtains its revenue by coercion, by threatening dire penalties should the income not be forthcoming. That coercion is known as “taxation,” although…

— Murray N. Rothbard