Best 145 quotes in «taxation quotes» category

Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force — for the same reason — cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups.

To be sure, I am not speaking about Christian equality, whose real name is equity; but about this democratic and social equality, which is nothing but the canonization of envy and the chimera of jealous ineptitude. This equality was never anything but a mask which could not become reality without the abolition of all merit and virtue.

To make a contented slave, you must make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate his power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery. The man that takes his earnings, must be able to convince him that he has a perfect right to do so. It must not depend upon mere force; the slave must know no Higher Law than his master's will. The whole relationship must not only demonstrate, to his mind, its necessity, but its absolute rightfulness.

We inherited a strong and flourishing country, and instead of making the investments - that is, the sacrifices - to maintain it, we chose to suck it dry and stick our children with the bill. If you want to see who is to blame for student debt, just look in the mirror. And if parents find themselves supporting kids beyond their college years, that is only, in the aggregate, a form of compensatory justice: the intergenerational transfer of wealth that should have been effected through taxation.

Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.

To summarise, the design of Nordic tax systems has over time created a ‘fiscal illusion’, whereby the public is not aware of the taxes they are paying. One can reflect on whether it is really in line with democratic principles to raise taxes in a way such that citizens are unaware of them. Interestingly, few proponents of introducing a Nordic model of high taxes in other countries stress that such a move would require hiding the true cost of taxation from the public.

War is the biggest tax hike ever; if this is properly understood many would stop warring. - On War and Personal Finances

We know how the people of Argentina ruined their country. We know how the people of Venezuela ruined their country. Few Americans know much about the history of Argentina or Venezuela. But if they wish to know how the people of the USA are ruining their own country, all they have to do is look around themselves, including, in most cases, looking in the mirror.

We've got this weird dysgenic situation where we're basically just paying idiots to breed and taxing intelligent people to stay away from each other with anything remotely resembling fertility.

What's the best way to make sure that the poor have a share in a country's growing wealth: Regulation? Taxes? Philanthropy?

What is taxation? Taxation is what you pay to live in a civilized society- what you pay to have democracy and opportunity.

When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.

When you consider socialism, do not fool yourself about its nature. Remember that there is no such dichotomy as “human rights” versus “property rights.” No human rights can exist without property rights.

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.

Without anarchy, there would be chaos.

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.

A fool and his money are soon married.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

...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.

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.

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.

Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten

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.

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

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

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.

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.