Quotes About Levied

In each territory, the dominant misl levied a rakhi (protection tax) on Sikh and non-Sikh peasants.

Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.

notice about the charge that would be levied for cleaning should a guest smoke (guests who spontaneously combusted would, one assumes, not be asked to pay).

Excise—A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.

RIGHTFUL TAXATION IS THE PRICE OF SOCIAL ORDER. In other words, it is that portion of the citizen's property which he yields up to the government in order to provide for the protection of all the rest. It is not to be wantonly levied on the citizen, nor levied at all except in return for benefits conferred. The individual pays... then he has the broad mantle of the law spread over him, to protect him when he sleeps and defend him when he awakes.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

portion of the fees the government levied