Quote by Lao Tzu

Those who make their living by collecting taxes cause the people to starve; when the people starve, the tax collectors, having no one to…

— Laozi

People starve. The rulers consume too much with their taxes. That is why people starve.

— Laozi

“The power to tax involves the power to destroy.”

— John Marshall

“The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors.”

— Lao Tzu

“If the power to tax is the power to destroy, the power to regulate is no less so.”

— Markham Shaw Pyle

“Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who do not…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The founders realized that a gigantic government would require increasingly large amounts of resources from the people in the form of taxes, and that…

— Ben Carson

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

— Anonymous

“In other words, the government of the democracy is the only one under which the power which lays on taxes escapes the payment of…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Under liberalism, went a famous quip, everyone is free to starve.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“You rich people are all the same. You couldn't care less about the other half of the world. They can all starve to death…

— Sally Wentworth

“If the power to tax is the power to destroy then the power to profit is the power to create.”

— Orrin Woodward