Taxation Quotes

• Inflation is taxation without legislation.

  Milton Friedman

  Money, Conservative, Finance

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• We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

  Winston Churchill

  Freedom, Humor, Men

  Winston S. Churchill “Young Statesman”

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• The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Crush, Interesting, Political

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• In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Death, Money, Business

  Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy, 13 Nov. 1789

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• I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

  Milton Friedman

  Cutting, Liberty, Favors

  "Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause". Book by Richard A. Viguerie, 2006.

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

  Milton Friedman

  Taxes Funny, Pay, Congress

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• Taxation without representation is tyranny.

  James Otis

  Tyrants, Taxation Without Representation, Tyranny

  Attributed in John Adams, Letter toWilliam Tudor, 29 Mar. 1818. This maxim, which is often quoted as the rallying cry for the American Revolution, has been attributed to Otis's argument against the writs of assistance before the Superior Court of Massachusetts in February 1761. However, there is no contemporary record of Otis using these words. John Adams, in describing the event fifty-seven years later, referred in his letter to Tudor to "Mr Otis's maxim, that 'taxation without representation w

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• The power to tax is the power to destroy.

  John Marshall

  Inspirational, Libertarian, Communism

  John Marshall, Joseph Potter Cotton (2000). “The Constitutional Decisions of John Marshall”, p.338, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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

  Terry Pratchett

  Way, Sophisticated, Menace

  Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

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  Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Presidential, Liberty, Taxes Funny

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.

  Frederick The Great

  Art, Government, People

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• Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Reflection, Men, Doors

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798”, p.481, Cosimo, Inc.

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• An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.

  John Marshall

  Law, Limits, Bears

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• A fool and his money are soon elected.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Money

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• Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

  Peg Bracken

  Memorable, Cutting, Two

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• I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

  Mark Twain

  People, Friendly, Criminals

  Taxes and Morals, delivered 22 January 1906, New York

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• If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Business, Taxation Without Representation, Debt

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  John Ruskin

  Discovery, Effort, Toil

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• A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Everybody's Political What's What? ch. 30 (1944)

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• To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

  Edmund Burke

  Love, Wise, Business

  Speech on American Taxation, 19 Apr. 1774

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• I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money

  Arthur Godfrey

  Funny, Money, Humor

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1951

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

  Ronald Reagan

  Military, Work, Government

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Herman Wouk

  Book, Income, Fiction

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• A [tax loophole is] something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.

  Russell B. Long

  Guy, Liberty, Reform

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• Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form

  Laurence J. Peter

  Income, Irs, Tests

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