Quotes about taxation
taxation sugar commodity
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
taxation citizens indirect
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without. Albert Camus
taxation wealth taxes
We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax.
taxation way gains
The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work. Calvin Trillin
taxation finance budgets
The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome. James Madison
taxation institutions foursquare
The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else. Frank Chodorov
taxation should robbery
Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.
taxation revolution citizens
In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation. Lyndon B. Johnson
taxation may pay
He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
taxation tangible earning
Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time. Although some taxation is necessary, all taxation diminishes freedom. George Will
taxation taxes tax-day
No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant. George Washington
taxation
Taxation without representation? No, they're getting taxed, and they're getting represented.
taxation bills way
There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation. Herbert Hoover
taxation collecting taxes
Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry. Margaret Thatcher
taxation levels authority
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
taxation regulation form
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
taxation finance treasury
My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury. Merton Miller
taxation way sophisticated
Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces. Terry Pratchett
taxation taxes-funny pay
Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society. Franklin D. Roosevelt
taxation earth territory
Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own. Thomas Jefferson
taxation raised goods
It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods.
taxation may individual
Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.
taxation pay used
Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice. Walter Wriston
taxation benefits taxes
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied. Ralph Waldo Emerson
taxation might wonder
Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?
taxation respiration
No taxation without respiration. Tom Feeney