Bad thing Quote by Lawrence Summers

It is always better to tax bad things than good things.

— Joseph Stiglitz

[High income tax rates] not only check consumption but discourage investment and encourage...the avoidance of taxes [rather] than the production of goods.[...]Our present tax…

— John F. Kennedy

We should tax things we don't like. We should tax pollution ... And we should lighten the taxes on things we do like, like…

— Ralph Nader

Taxes are the way the government has of artificially inducing the rainy day everybody has been saving for.

— Taxation

As a general rule, governments are wise to avoid taxation that is voluntary, as they need a steady stream of income.

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

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

— Frank Chodorov

Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The problem is that taxes aren’t used efficiently.

— Mian Muhammad Mansha

Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.

— Tim Murphy

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

— Charles Adams

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 taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.

— George Washington