Quotes About Taxation

Dexter's ultimate job being the protection of his boss's gargantuan illegal earnings from the arachnid appetite of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. No man had the power to intimidate Mr. Q., but the mechanistic forces of taxation and audit were another story. Even the great Al Capone had succumbed. It was the syndicate no syndicate could beat

The State requires a taxpaying machine in which there is no hitch, an exchequer in which there is never a deficit, and a public, monotonous, obedient, colorless, spiritless, moving humbly like a flock of sheep along a straight high road between two walls.

The same economic relationship is at work underground, where low-density land-use patterns require greater lengths of pipe and conduit to distribute municipal services. This high ratio of public to private expenditure helps explain why suburban municipalities are finding that new growth fails to pay for itself at acceptable levels of taxation.

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

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.

There are two basic things that people who are creating great companies want while simultaneously creating thriving communities: They don't want to be taxed any more than they have to, because they often know that that money is not being spent effectively. And secondly, they want to feel welcome.

By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them.

As more and more money is coming into the formal economy, one can look at more attractive tax rates and lower tax slabs. Even if half the people who were in the informal sector move in to the formal economy and more taxes get collected, more money can be spent on the welfare.

The biggest revenue target is the preferential rate for long-term capital gains, which raises a perennial question: Why should capital income be taxed at a much lower rate than ordinary income? Capital assets are owned overwhelmingly by the rich.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

We shall tax and tax, and spend and spend, and elect and elect.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

Don't tax more than you have to.

Countries that will not tax their elite who expect us to come in and help them serve their people are just not going to get the kind of help from us that historically they may have.

You have got to clear up that corporation tax in the modern way has had its day as a major source of revenue, and we have got to find a new system.

Whatever you tax, you get less of.

Tax what you burn not what you earn.

Insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the American Dream. That may turn out to be a good re-election strategy for President Obama, but is a demoralizing message for America.

The role of government is to tax the people to the least extent possible while still taxing them enough to cover the basic needs for government.

At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.

We tax our companies more than any other country in the world, so we really are not really encouraging businesses to grow and expand, and over time, that's going to make it so that we diminish our role in the global economy.

Who's on the case when it comes to the flat tax?

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

Yet, individuals and corporations in Puerto Rico pay no federal income tax.