Best 145 quotes in «taxation quotes» category

You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly.

A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

A fool and his money are soon married.

As a taxpayer, you are required to be fully in compliance with the United States Tax Code, which is currently the size and weight of the Budweiser Clydesdales.

All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?

At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.

You say, "There are men who have no money," and you apply the law. But the law is not a self-supplied fountain, whence every stream may obtain supplies independtly of society. Nothing can enter the public treasury, in favor of one citizen or one class, but what other citizens and other classes have been forced to send to it.

A small business person has Uncle Sam as a partner, a partner who puts up no money, does no work, and wants 30 or 40 percent

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay

Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose you more money than any single person in your life, with the possible exception of your kids

By the end of the Twentieth Century, taxation will be reduced to a minimum, the entire world will be open to trade, and there will be no need of a standing army.

By operating independently of government aid, the churches . . . avoid the resentment of those who do not want to be forced to contribute to churches to which they do not belong and of their own members who do not welcome being forced to contribute through government taxation.

If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the rich and stingy will no longer be able to evade the duties of citizenship and of humanity.

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.

Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.

How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?

In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

Is there a point of taxation wherein even a Democrat would acknowledge it is thievery by the government?

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

I think the Republicans have really thoughtful financial policies, and I'm more in the middle on taxation.

In any socialist government, they must destroy all alliances other than your alliance to the government, and they want the government to become your God. That for you to totally depend upon government. So we become slaves to government, through taxation, through regulation, through all kinds of restrictions, that makes us not free anymore.

...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women, merely as women, from any share in the representation; that exclusion is also repugnant to the particular principles of the British Constitution. It violates one of the oldest of our constitutional maxims...that taxation and representation should be co-extensive. Do not women pay taxes?

It's income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and stab yourself in the aorta

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten

Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange, Although he fleeced the flags of every nation, For into a prime minister but change His title, and 'tis nothing but taxation.

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil

No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.

No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.

More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four times as much by our Folly.

Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

Tens of billions ... are going into the pockets of tens of thousands of tax preparers who ... love complexity as much as the rest of us hate it

That's the "magic" of double-taxation treaties: you can shop around for the lowest taxer.

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

The best way for the Government to maintain its credit is to pay as it goes-not by resorting to loans, but by keeping out of debt-through an adequate income secured by a system of taxation, external or internal, or both.

Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power.

The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent.

The Islamic State is able to raise finances through taxation, through theft of banks, and certainly through oil sales from the Omar oilfields in eastern Syria. So right now the question of funding isn't of the essence.

The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.

The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.