Quotes About Taxation

The last thing we need to do when natural gas has been such a blessing is raise the severance tax.

holidays—-such as Columbus Day—to be celebrated by all Protestants in America; thirty million dollars worth of church property exempted from taxation in New

People's incomes over a certain level aren't taxed to pay for Social Security at all.

From the 1940s through the '70s—when our richest citizens were paying rates of 70 and 80 and 90 percent on the millionth dollars they earned each year—U.S. productivity and GDP per person and median household income after inflation all doubled.

Once a large majority of Americans came to believe that the federal government was uninspiring or incompetent or corrupt or evil, as they rapidly had over the previous decade, it was going to be a lot easier for the economic right to persuade people that regulating big business and taxing the rich were just plain wrong.

As the 1990s began, the right stayed angry and upset and kept growing in size and power thanks to the primitives, the bigots, the Protestant fundamentalists and cowboy commando conspiracy fantasists. But the grown-ups on the right, the economic right, corporate leaders and the rest of the rich, kept their eye on the prize—less taxation, less regulation of business, greed is good—and they maintained control of the party.

in the words of jurist John Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court, "the power to tax involves the power to destroy.

Nevertheless, some Southerners like James Monroe still had serious reservations about the compromise, believing that assumption would reduce "the necessity for State taxation" and thus would "undoubtedly leave the national government more at liberty to exercise its powers and increase the subjects on which it will act.

a multitude destitute of will and of the means of resistance, but profitable in the utmost degree to the exchequer.

In China they used thousands of workmen where ten would suffice, because they got them cheap, and the results suffered. I concluded that the most expensive product in the world is cheap labor, because it lures you away from rational operations. You pay a man a high wage, you demand a high return, and from high returns you pick up a good profit. So ever since, I've believed in paying a man high wages, then taxing him like hell for the welfare of the state. The thing that

It's just wrong to work your whole life to build up a nest egg, build your own business - you pass away, and Uncle Sam can swoop in and take away nearly half of everything you've earned. Can you imagine that? Having to sell off most of your land just to keep it from the government, just to save the house.

You talk to any of the job creators, and they'll tell you one of the things that concerns them the most is the debt. And so high levels of indebtedness are going to lead to high levels of taxation, which lead to high level of unemployment.

This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.

If you had a basic income, it would mean that everybody would have a base on top of which their earned income would be taxed at the standard rate of tax. That would increase the incentive to take low-wage jobs.

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man

Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

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

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.

My view is that we should not be taxing at the Federal level for the things that New Jersey can do for itself.

una buena parte de ese espíritu de servicio público, de imperio británico, de reforma tributaria, de espíritu de la clase gobernante