Bigs Quote by Thabo Mbeki

“the regional governments can't raise taxes. The source of revenue would simply leave for another region. In fact, the effect of decentralization without guaranteed…

— John Ralston Saul

“The many governments within a single metropolitan area are almost designed to fight among themselves because state law makes them largely dependent on locally…

— Bruce Katz

“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

Taxation is not a method by which the community corporately provides itself with essential services, but a fund to be divided between different interests…

— Neville Chamberlain

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

— Charles Dudley Warner

My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a…

— Jack Markell

The place where you got to get revenues has to come from the middle class. That's where the huge number of people that are…

— Orrin Hatch

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

Provision of facilities to the masses is linked with the collection of taxes.

— Shehbaz Sharif

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

Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector has to sell more abroad and consume…

— John Redwood

Governments that don't need to broaden their tax base have few incentives to respond to the needs of their people.

— Denise Dresser