Quotes About Taxation

You have to be taxed. Just because you work a little harder to have a little bit more money taken from you, I mean, that's scary. I worked hard for it. Why should I be taxed more than other people?

There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.

Government cannot tax what Parliament does not approve, but Parliament cannot approve what it does not know.

If we look to see whether heavily taxing the people to produce the sounds of great bells, drums, zithers, and pipes promotes the benefit of the people of the world and eliminates what is harmful to them, we see that it offers no such help.

Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more and more people are able to take care of themselves.

Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.

I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's a form of taxation without representation. I don't think we can do that.

On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.

Resolved Therefore that the General Assembly of this colony have the only and sole exclusive right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this colony and that every attempt to vest such power in any other person or persons whatsoever other than the General Assembly aforesaid has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as AMERICAN FREEDOM.50 Men

If Americans had to discriminate directly against other people's children, I believe most citizens would find this morally abhorrent. Denial, in an active sense, of other people's children is, however, rarely necessary in this nation. Inequality is mediated for us by a taxing system that most people do not fully understand and seldom scrutinize.

and powerful towards both the people and the state. He reaffirms the basic cause of 'our revolution', No taxation without representation; he insists that government revenue 'be kept under public control' and not be given over to the banks to speculate with; and he endorses President Jackson's saying 'No where so well deposited as in the pants of the people, | Wealth ain't'.

By 1927, only the richest 2 percent of Americans paid any federal tax at all.

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

They forget that government revenues derive from confiscation, rather than production.

Israel's middle class is paying for those below it, and that's fine, but also for those who are above it, and that's very wrong.

In 1994, Estonia became the first European country to adopt a flat tax, and its 26 percent flat tax dramatically energized what had been a faltering economy. Before adopting the flat tax, the Estonian economy was literally shrinking. In the eight years after 1994, Estonia experienced real economic growth - averaging 5.2 percent per year.

The proposal to introduce GST was first mooted by P. Chidambaram in his budget speech of 2006

It is difficult to predict the future of an economy in which it takes more brains to figure out the tax on our income than it does to earn it.

European pantywaists might keep voting for high-spending governments, but the U.S. was founded on a popular revolt against taxation.

The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.

I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.

I've seen it with my own eyes: When government takes money from the poor and the middle class, everyone suffers.

I would not support any scheme which suggested that people should be taxed for living in their own home.

My government is continuously improving the GST regime keeping in view the suggestions being received from the business community.