Quotes About Taxation

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

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

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.

Everyone will be taxed according to his means.

The only reason people lock their car doors when Obama walks by is they are afraid he'll tax them to death...

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.

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

Each dollar taxed and spent deprives Americans of the freedom to make their own choices.

Government can only spend a dollar to help someone when it forcibly takes a dollar from someone else.

If you earn a lot of money you should pay a lot of tax.

We do not believe that death should be a taxable event.

Hagyj csak most békét, aki kett?t boncol, Az alaposan egynek sem felel meg. És innen j? a félszeg m?vel?dés. Aki csizmát varr, az csiríz legyen Utósó ízeig, mi gondja másra. Ki a holdat kutatja, e világra Ne légyen gondja, és aki tanít, ?rizkedjék akármit is tanulni. Csak egy van, mit mindennek tudni kell, Adót fizetni engedelmesen. Így készül a derék sok szaktudós.

The American people are not just being taxed to death they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.

In the beginning, there were farmers and animal husbanders. Life was hard, brutal, and short. Taxes and other requirements imposed by chiefs, landlords, or the state were onerous. Many people were serfs or slaves, devoid of autonomy and dignity. Poverty and injustice were the norm, save for the lucky few.

It's easy to have strong, visceral feelings about disrespecting America. It's harder to get passionate about tax law.

The smaller the input required for the production of an article becomes, the more of the scarce factors of production are left for the production of other articles. But the better an entrepreneur succeeds in this regard, the more is he vilified and the more is he soaked by taxation. Increasing costs per unit of output, that is, waste, is praised as a virtue.

If the government could tax broken hearts, there would be no deficit.

Every land or property owner in America would be tickled to death to pay 45 per cent of his profits, if he didn't have to pay anything if he didn't make it.

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.

If you mix a liquid with gunpowder and ignite it, and it burns with a steady blue flame, then the liquid must be at least fifty percent alcohol, and that's PROOF. That's the way they proved a liquid was alcohol in the 17th century when distilled spirits were first taxed, and that's what is meant by proof to this day

The larger picture is that the socialist camp wants high, even confiscatory, income tax rates, complemented by additional levies on wealth and, in some cases, even compulsory worker control of large industries—which gets us closer to the classic, never-before-achieved Marxian conception of socialism.

What kind of generosity is it that forcibly seizes and then disburses other people's money? This is not generosity; it's larceny.

The group [the National Association of Real Estate Boards, now the National Association of Realtors] first tired to make landlords' rents exempt from taxes. When this effort was unsuccessful, NAREB campaigned to make home mortgage interest deductible from income tax and succeeded in the 1920s in winning this subsidy for their growing industry.