Taxation Quotes - Page 15

• We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation, and reform the labor laws.

  Mariano Rajoy

  Cutting, Labor Laws, Reform

  "Will Spain Be the Next Greece?". Interview with Lalli Weymouth, www.slate.com. October 28, 2011.

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• The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes and constitutional protections such as the separation of powers, the Bill of Rights, election of senators by state legislators, the electoral college, no income taxation, most governmental functions performed at the state and local levels, and myriad other constitutional limitations on the powers of the central government.

  Thomas DiLorenzo

  College, Rights, Government

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• Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  People, Income, Able

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.271, Best Books on

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• Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Opportunity, Community, Pay

  Albert Bushnell Hart (1918). “Actual Government as Applied Under American Conditions”

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• I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.

  Richard Cobden

  Military, Fall, Home

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• 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.

  John M Swomley

  Government, Church, Want

  John M. Swomley, Americans for Religious Liberty (1997). “Confronting church and state: memoirs of an activist”

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• Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal mania, unless you work for the Army; then it's National Defense. Spying on your neighbors is invasion of privacy, unless you work for the FBI; then it's National Security. Running a whorehouse makes you a pimp and poisoning people makes you a murderer, unless you work for the CIA; then it's counter-intelligence.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Running, Army, People

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• 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.

  Will Rogers

  Government, America, Towns

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.99, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I would suggest to my honourable Friend that the foreign investor is at least as discouraged by high national debt for that, as all example shows, is the surest precursor of high taxation.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Example, Debt, Discouraged

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 213), March 24, 1966.

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• We can't constantly explain to our voters that taxpayers have to be on the hook for certain risks, rather than those who make a lot of money taking those risks.

  Angela Merkel

  Money, Responsibility, Risk

  "Germany's Angela Merkel Leans On Irish to Fix Economy". abcnews.go.com. November 12, 2010.

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• The United States has already passed on as the world's economic leader. Having flouted Thomas Jefferson for too long, America has succumbed to public debt, the 'fore horse for oppression and despotism,' after which 'taxation will follow, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.'

  Ilana Mercer

  Horse, America, Long

  "Economic Apocalypse Now". www.wnd.com. June 03, 2011.

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• All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch the mass exodus.

  Walter E. Williams

  Money, Watches, Irs

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• Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Needs, Bears, Individual

  Jean Baptiste Say (1834). “A Treatise on Political Economy: Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.458

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• Any politico who's afraid of his constituents being armed, should be. Leaders of the anti-gun movement (for the most part, politicians who enthusiastically advocate confiscatory taxation and government control of everything) realize that a populace is much easier to herd, loot and dispose of if it has been stripped of its weapons. The naked fraud and transparent fascism of victim disarmament must be eradicated through the repeal of all gun laws at every level of government.

  L. Neil Smith

  Gun, Law, Government

  "The Brontosaurus in the Broom Closet". The Libertarian Enterprise Article, www.ncc-1776.org. October 18, 2009.

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• I believe that the 21st century economy is an economy of people, not of factories. The intellectual factor has become increasingly important in the economy, which is why we are planning to focus on providing additional opportunities for people to realise their potential.

  Vladimir Putin

  Honesty, Responsibility, Power

  Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s Speech at the Opening Ceremony of the World Economic Forum, archive.premier.gov.ru. January 28, 2009.

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• We must seek support in the moral values that have ensured the progress of our civilization. Honesty and hard work, responsibility and faith in our strength are bound to bring us success. There should be no place for despondency. The crisis can and must be fought by uniting our intellectual, spiritual and material resources.

  Vladimir Putin

  Spiritual, Honesty, Responsibility

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• Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic deficit of inertia, as the unwanted result of inadequate revenues and a restricted economy; or a temporary deficit of transition, resulting from a tax cut designed to boost the economy, increase tax revenues, and achieve -- and I believe this can be done -- a budget surplus. The first type of deficit is a sign of waste and weakness; the second reflects an investment in the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Believe, Cutting, Two

  Address to the Economic Club of New York, delivered 14 December 1962, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own government, to levy their own taxes, and to make their own laws.... There was second, the liberty of the individual man to live his own life, within the limits of decency and decorum, as he pleased -- freedom from the despotism of the majority.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Law, Two

  Lapham's Quarterly, Alexander Hamilton, Ezra Pound, Richard Hofstadter, Thomas Jefferson (2016). “Alexander Hamilton: Lapham's Quarterly - Special Issue”, p.124, Pronoun

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• Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Law, Should, Accord

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

  Will Rogers

  Way, Crime, Taxes

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Frankly speaking, we all know that provoking military and political instability, regional, and other conflicts is a helpful means of distracting the public from growing domestic social and economic problems in certain countries. Such attempts cannot be ruled out, unfortunately.

  Vladimir Putin

  Honesty, Military, Responsibility

  Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s Speech at the Opening Ceremony of the World Economic Forum, archive.premier.gov.ru. January 28, 2009.

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• The officers of Congress, may come upon you now, fortified with all the terrors of paramount federal authority. Excisemen taxmen may come in multitudes; for the limitation of their numbers no man knows. They may, unless the general government be restrained ... go into your cellars and rooms, and search, ransack, and measure, everything you eat, drink, and wear.

  Patrick Henry

  Men, Numbers, May

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• 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.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Facts, World

  Sir Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.84, A&C Black

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• Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation? ... Today in our country the tax collector's share is 37 cents of every dollar earned. Freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Dollars, Demand

  Ronald Reagan (1981). “Rendezvous with destiny”, Osmond Pub Co

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• To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the purpose of providing for the general welfare.' For the laying of taxes is the power, and the general welfare the purpose for which the power is to be exercised. They are not to lay taxes ad libitum for any purpose they please; but only to pay the debts or provide for the welfare of the Union.

  Thomas Jefferson

  United States, Purpose, Debt

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.216, Penguin

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