Quotes About Taxation

I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.

Instead of taxing rich people, governments borrow from them, and pay them interest for the privilege.

Ive always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.

Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.

Let me tell you, that's what taxation is - it's confiscation. It's your money, it's not the government's money. But the government makes you think that it all comes from them.

Since the beginning of recorded history, the business of government has been wealth confiscation.

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.

The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business.

We should tax every company's carbon footprint and the carbon footprint of every building and home, to incentivize people to reduce their carbon footprint.

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

A lot of times in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And the facts are that thousands of small businesses-Hispanically owned or otherwise-pay taxes at the highest marginal rate.

The problem with taxation is that authors can't write off whiskey as a business expense.

To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men . However, he attempted it.

Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?

Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.

Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in America. The State has no money. It produces nothing. It existence is purely parasitic, maintained by taxation; that is to say, by forced levies on the production of others. "Government money," of which one hears so much nowadays, does not exist; there is no such thing.

Those which are of most importance, and which seem most to require local knowledge, are commerce, taxation, and the militia.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

It is hard to see taxing plastic bags as one of the great issues of our time that merits the foremost place in our finest statesmen's minds. It is an absurd little issue, a picayune proportion of household waste, and a pointless inconvenience in people's lives.

If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax.

Americans know that we cannot tax and spend our way out of a recession, yet Democrats can't grasp this simple fact.