Quotes About Taxing power

Congress lacked many of the prerequisites of an authentic government—an army, a currency, taxing power—yet it evolved in pell-mell fashion into the first government of the United States.

The federal government had captured forever the bulk of American taxing power.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy

The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need.

The power to tax is not the power to destroy while this Court sits.