Accused Quote by Thomas Sowell

With various people complaining about "price gouging... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either…

— Thomas Sowell

'Tax' is a bad word for politicians.

— Jose Angel Gurria

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits…

— Bono

It is amazing how many of the intelligentsia call it "greed" to want to keep what you have earned, but not greed to want…

— Thomas Sowell

Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay…

— Thomas Sowell

“We live in a global economy where voracious political and corporate greed has turned your life into a disposable commodity to be used and…

— Martin Yate

People who thing that they are getting something for nothing, by having government provide what they would otherwise have to buy in the private…

— Thomas Sowell

When governments are cowed or simply don't care to enforce fundamental human and labour rights or to ensure corporate tax is paid so that…

— Sharan Burrow

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

— Terry Pratchett

Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.

— William Jennings Bryan

“Behind this public glorification of greed, three recent experimental research studies suggest that the academic discipline of economics encourages a culture of greed.”

— Vaddhaka Linn

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes…

— Lysander Spooner