Noam Chomsky Quotes About Taxes

• In a democracy the day when you pay your taxes, April 15, would be a day of celebration, because you're getting together to provide resources for the programs you decided on.

  Noam Chomsky

  Democracy, Together, Would Be

  Source: www.iww.org

• Women taking care of children . . . it makes sense to pay them for that work . . . they should be paid for it, but that requires tax payments. And the same is true about protection of the environment.

  Noam Chomsky

  Children, Care, Pay

• One measure for promoting both stability and fairness across financial market segments is a small sales tax on all financial transactions.

  Noam Chomsky

  Fairness, Financial, Stability

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled.

  Noam Chomsky

  Pay, Privilege, Advertising

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.301, Soft Skull Press

• Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true elsewhere, including the United States, but it's been pretty extreme in Greece.

  Noam Chomsky

  United States, Example, Pay

  Interview with Michael Nevradakis, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2012.

• My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential.

  Noam Chomsky

  Agency, Feelings, Essentials

• I didn't pay my taxes for years.

  Noam Chomsky

  Years, Pay, Taxes

• In the United States, the day when you pay your taxes is a day of mourning because this alien force - the government - is coming to rob you of your hard-earned money. That's the general attitude, and it's a tremendous victory for the opponents of democracy, and, of course, any privileged sector is going to hate democracy. You can see it in the healthcare debate.

  Noam Chomsky

  Attitude, Hate, Government

  Source: www.iww.org

• The most extreme types, like Murray Rothbard, are at least honest. They'd like to eliminate highway taxes because they force you to pay for a road you may never drive on. As an alternative, they suggest that if you and I want to get somewhere, we should build a road there and charge people tolls on it. Just try generalizing that. Such a society couldn't survive, and even if it could, it would be so full of terror and hate that any human being would prefer to live in hell.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hate, People, Trying

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “How the World Works”, p.217, Soft Skull Press

• I organized tax resistance in 1965, with a friend. I kept at it for about ten years. I don't see it as a principle, it's a tactic. And I felt I had exhausted its potential as a tactic right about then, so I stopped.

  Noam Chomsky

  Years, Principles, Tactics

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• The childcare tax credit makes some sense.

  Noam Chomsky

  Credit, Taxes, Childcare

• I should say that Canada is one of the major criminals, not just the tar sands and so on, but even mining throughout the world, a lot of it is Canadian. It's extremely destructive, so an important thing for Canadians to do is curtail the predatory and destructive behavior of their own government and corporations. A carbon tax is one way of doing it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Important, Corporations

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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