Quotes About Taxation

We already have an annual wealth tax on homes, the major asset of the middle class. It's called the property tax. Why not a small annual tax on the value of stocks and bonds, the major assets of the wealthy?

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.

I dislike many of Mr Corbyn's opinions - his belief in egalitarianism and high taxation, his enthusiasm for comprehensive schools, his readiness to talk to terrorists, and his support for the E.U.

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.

This is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free, but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Goodnight.

You can't tax business. Business doesn't pay taxes. It collects taxes.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.

Every year, therefore, the inequality of taxation separated classes and isolated individuals more deeply than ever before. From the moment when taxation had as its purpose, not to strike those most capable of paying, but those least capable of defending themselves against it, the monstrous consequence of sparing the rich and burdening the poor was inevitable.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

No taxation without representation.

The best things in life are free, but sooner or later the government will find a way to tax them.

Direct taxation for Roman citizens living in Italy was abolished.

If someone builds a fortune, it belongs to him, not the government. An entitled government undermines liberty.

We shouldn't be encouraging people to set up Cayman Island funds.

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

Texans should not be taxed on our taxes.

Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.

I think the first thing we should do is abolish the income tax.

Inflation is taxation and taxation is theft that takes more money out of hard-working Americans' pocket books.

A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.

All the inhabitants of Cyprus are slaves to the Venetians," wrote the visitor Martin von Baumgarten in 1508, "obliged to pay to the state a third of all their increase or income…and which is more, there is yearly some tax or other imposed on them, with which the poor common people are so flayed and pillaged that they hardly have the wherewithal to keep soul and body together.