Claims Quote by 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

A tax is something people pay out of income.

— Grant Shapps

Taxation is the legitimate support of government.

— Adolphe Thiers

A tax is money levied on a persons property, business or pleasure. A taxilevies money to get to a persons property, business or pleasure.

— Robert D Dangoor

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

The state has been living on a revenue which was being produced in the private sphere for private purposes and had to be deflected…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

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

— Michael Madigan

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

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

Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.

— Thomas Jefferson

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

— Terry Pratchett

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