Best 145 quotes in «taxation quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten

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

...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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.

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

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.

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

There is perhaps, nothing more likely to disturb the tranquillity of nations, than their being bound to mutual contributions for any common object that does not yield an equal and coincident benefit. For it is an observation as true, as it is trite, that there is nothing men differ so readily about as the payment of money.

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

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation.

Undoubtedly Internet has reduced the possibilities of taxation. Why should I buy something here if I can buy it from a company in Japan or England or Brazil with a lower tax?

This is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free, but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Goodnight.

Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.

What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.

A government is a territorial monopolist of compulsion-an agency which may engage in continual, institutionalized property rights violations and the expropriation, taxation and regulation-of private property owners.

We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax.