Coal Quote by Subramanian Swamy

You can auction coal blocks. All natural resources of government should be auctioned.

— Subramanian Swamy

Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.

— Kapil Sibal

If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation.

— Samuel Adams

The best taxes are such as are levied upon consumptions, especially those of luxury; because such taxes are least felt by the people. They…

— David Hume

Creating jobs in coal-impacted communities is a priority and through the reclamation and repurposing of these mined lands, we hope to see an additional…

— Glenn Youngkin

“Tax systems are essentially the mechanisms by which societies decide what people have to share with each other versus what they can keep for…

— Martin Adams

“How can we share the gifts of nature? By sharing the monetary value that human beings assign to nature. The fundamental thing we need…

— Martin Adams

“Progressive taxes are inherently flawed in that they fund public services which are often location-dependent, thus adding to the value of owned land. Thus,…

— Martin Adams

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

Higher energy prices act like a tax.

— John W. Snow

I have endeavoured to show that the ability to pay taxes depends, not on the gross money value of the mass of commodities, nor…

— David Ricardo

A certain amount of taxes is of course indispensable to carry on essential government functions. Reasonable taxes for this purpose need not hurt production…

— Henry Hazlitt