Able Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Mark Skousen

Every dollar released from taxation that is spared or invested will help create a new job and a new salary.

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Terry Pratchett

..either immediately or ultimately every dollar of government spending must be raised through a dollar of taxation. Once we look at the matter. In…

— Henry Hazlitt

One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.

— Hillary Clinton

If you raise taxes on the rich, you don't raise much money. I mean, this is one of the things that the U.S. is…

— Richard Quest

“People tolerate taxes for a while because they have previously accumulated wealth. As the tax burden grows and productivity falls, tax revenue falls and…

— Ron Paul

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

Instead of taxing rich people, governments borrow from them, and pay them interest for the privilege.

— Doug Henwood

If your Income Taxes go to help out the less fortunate, there could be no legitimate kick against it in the world. This is…

— Will Rogers

Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be…

— Will Rogers

Whenever government assumed responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of citizens, the costs of government rise beyond the point where it is politically…

— Leonard Read