Quotes About Taxation

It cannot be good to tax the Americans... You will lose more than you gain.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.

In the United States, if you buy a property and you're a good citizen, and you improve that property, what do they do to you? They tax you more. So they penalize you for good behavior.

The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible with none of the good news.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.

Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.

For government to give, it must first take away.

The tax that is taken from the free non-Muslim subjects of a Muslim government whereby they ratify the compact that assures them protection, as though it were compensation for not being slain.

We need to keep a very keen eye on our own government. It's getting too rich and redistributing wealth is a sure way of robbing us of our private property rights and other rights along with them.

Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.

Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.

Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector.

I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes.

A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.

The government and its chiefs do not have the powers of the mythical Santa Claus. They cannot spend except by taking out of the pockets of some people for the benefit of others.

It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field.

I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.

Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.