Quotes About Taxation

The Modi government believes that the industrialist, the capitalist, has to pay for the assets of the government which belong to the people of India.

If I make a dollar and out of every dollar I'm taxed at 50, half, at 50 cents, I have to give, isn't that like enough?

We should be forced to give so many exemptions and concessions (inevitably to the benefit of high spending authorities in Inner London) that the flat-rate poll tax would rapidly become a surrogate income tax.

In any traditional empire, the purpose of government was not to guide or provide services for the population but to tax them. It did not usually attempt to interfere with the social customs or religious beliefs of its subjects. Rather, a government was set up to take whatever it could from its peasants and prevent other aristocrats from getting their surplus, so warfare- to conquer, expand, or maintain the tax base- was essential to these states.

The necessary consequence of this was political centralization. Independent, or but loosely connected provinces, with separate interests, laws, governments and systems of taxation, became lumped together into one nation, with one government, one code of laws, one national class interest, one frontier, and one customs tariff.

Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.

How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?

It is unethical for any man to tax another man's home to fund his social agenda. Friends don't do that, your enemies will.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.

To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that?

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

The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution.

There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers.

The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.

Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.

The harder you work for money, the more you are taxed, the harder your money works, the less it is taxed.

People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the rich and stingy will no longer be able to evade the duties of citizenship and of humanity.

Printing money is merely taxation in another form.

I'm getting a little tired of politicians trying to prove how 'moderate' and 'centrist' they are by taking more of my money and freedom. Where's this center - somewhere between Lenin and Stalin?