Quotes About Taxation

By having Wyoming, Inc., perform a legitimate service for Your State, Inc., Your State, Inc., has an expense to write off against its income, thus reducing taxable revenues.

As a general rule, governments are wise to avoid taxation that is voluntary, as they need a steady stream of income.

Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, and that all church property shall bear its own proportion of taxation.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

In 1828 we raised the duties, on an average, to nearly fifty per cent, when the debt was on the eve of being discharged, and thereby flooded the country with a revenue, when discharged, which could not be absorbed by the most lavish expenditures.

We ought, therefore, to lessen the price of food to our manufacturers, and place them more on a level with the manufacturers who have cheaper food, and also much lighter taxation.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Both the federal government and the states should go ahead and soak the rich to reduce inequality and raise money for health care, child care, infrastructure investment, education, decarbonization, and a thousand other priorities.

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

Thus, more of the ordinary person's money got syphoned off into the Exchequer, where it largely financed war and paid the interest due to wealthy investors in the National Debt.

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.

Do you know what emperors do, Tilla?' That was easy. 'Send soldiers to steal the land and make us pay taxes.

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

The ryotwari and mahalwari systems of taxation had the additional feature of abolishing all private property which had belonged to the affluent as well as the inferior cultivating classes, thereby abolishing century-old traditions and ties that linked people to the land.

Taxation and the general conditions of life under the East India Company were so unpleasant and onerous that, as I have mentioned earlier, as many as could fled their traditional homes for refuge in domains beyond the Company's remit, whereas the migration of Indian peasants from the 'native states' to British India was unheard of through most of the nineteenth century.

William Digby calculated that 'the ryots in the Districts outside the permanent settlement get only one half as much to eat in the year as their grandfathers did, and only one-third as much as their great-grandfathers did. Yet, in spite of such facts, the land tax is exacted with the greatest stringency and must be paid to the Government in coin before the crops are garnered!

Agricultural taxes amounted at a minimum to half the gross produce and often more, leaving the cultivator less food than he needed to support himself and his family; British estimates conceded that taxation was two or three times higher than it had ever been under non-British rule, and unarguably higher than in any other country in the world.

But Louis XV, in arguably the biggest single blunder of his reign, capitulated to clerical pressure and to specious arguments such as the 'donation of Constantine', whereby the first Christian emperor had given land to the church unencumbered and in perpetuity. The problem did not go away: clerical resistance to taxation was to defeat Louis XVI's major reforming initiative too.

The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.