Jean-Baptiste Say Quotes About Taxes

Quotes about: Taxes

• The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Littles, Finance, Schemes

  Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, J.R. McCulloch (2013). “History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch”, p.148, Coventry House Publishing

• A tax can never be favorable to the public welfare, except by the good use that is made of its proceeds.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Use, Welfare, Made

  Jean Baptiste Say (1827). “A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth”, p.113

• If one individual, or one class, can call in the aid of authority to ward off the effects of competition, it acquires a privilege and at the cost of the whole community; it can make sure of profits not altogether due to the productive services rendered, but composed in part of an actual tax upon consumers for its private profit' which tax it commonly shares with the authority that thus unjustly lent its support.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Philosophy, Class, Support

  Jean Baptiste Say (1827). “A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth”, p.91

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