Top Taxation Quotes Collection

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Image of Mark Skousen
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.
- Mark Skousen
Collection: Taxation
Image of Walter Wriston
Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.
- Walter Wriston
Collection: Taxation
Image of John Pugsley
Peace and prosperity are inversely proportional to the level of taxation.
- John Pugsley
Collection: Taxation
Image of Frank Chodorov
Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.
- Frank Chodorov
Collection: Taxation
Image of Frank Chodorov
The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.
- Frank Chodorov
Collection: Taxation
Image of Hans-Hermann Hoppe
An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Collection: Taxation
Image of Tom Feeney
No taxation without respiration.
- Tom Feeney
Collection: Taxation
Image of John Roberts
Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
- John Roberts
Collection: Taxation
Image of Dick Spring
We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax.
- Dick Spring
Collection: Taxation
Image of Henry Fielding
A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
- Henry Fielding
Collection: Taxation
Image of John J. Beckley
Inflation is a form of hidden taxation which it is almost impossible to measure.
- John J. Beckley
Collection: Taxation
Image of Andrew Mellon
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.
- Andrew Mellon
Collection: Taxation
Image of Margaret Thatcher
Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.
- Margaret Thatcher
Collection: Taxation
Image of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Collection: Taxation
Image of Adam Smith
Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.
- Adam Smith
Collection: Taxation
Image of Voltaire
In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.
- Voltaire
Collection: Taxation
Image of George Washington
No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.
- George Washington
Collection: Taxation
Image of Will Rogers
The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent.
- Will Rogers
Collection: Taxation
Image of Geoff Mulgan
Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.
- Geoff Mulgan
Collection: Taxation
Image of George Bernard Shaw
Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
Collection: Taxation
Image of Milton Friedman
Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay
- Milton Friedman
Collection: Taxation
Image of Thomas Jefferson
Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.
- Thomas Jefferson
Collection: Taxation
Image of Thomas Jefferson
It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods.
- Thomas Jefferson
Collection: Taxation
Image of Thomas Jefferson
Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.
- Thomas Jefferson
Collection: Taxation
Image of Mark Levin
Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.
- Mark Levin
Collection: Taxation
Image of Rush Limbaugh
What I know is that taxation, as far as liberal Democrats are concerned, is not about money. It's about power.
- Rush Limbaugh
Collection: Taxation
Image of James Madison
The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.
- James Madison
Collection: Taxation