Taxation Quotes - Page 17

• All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people

  Henry Adams

  People, Evil, Heavy

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• Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased - not a reduced - flow of revenues to the federal government.

  John F. Kennedy

  Yield, Government, Years

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• Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor.

  Robert Nozick

  Liberty, Libertarian, Earning

  Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”

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• I don't have a chance [on being elected Mayor of New Orleans]. I'm running on the gay marriage, no religion, legalization and taxation of marijuana platform.

  Brad Pitt

  Running, Gay, Marijuana

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• The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

  Calvin Trillin

  Ceilings, Way, Gains

  Calvin Trillin (1987). “Uncivil liberties”, Penguin Group USA

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• A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species.

  James Madison

  Government, Rewards, Taxes

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• 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.

  William McKinley

  Government, Income, Credit

  William McKinley (2012). “A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents”, p.14, tredition

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• To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.

  Antonin Scalia

  Sex, Decision, Gay Marriage

  "Who is Antonin Scalia and why is he out of touch with changing social views?" by Dan Roberts, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2015.

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• Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.

  Arthur Laffer

  Government, Looks, Prosperity

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• You could not possibly maintain the current level of government taxation without the taxes being hidden, and they are hidden in two very different ways. They are hidden through withholding, but they are also hidden by being imposed on business, supposedly on business, when really, of course, business can't pay taxes, only people can pay taxes.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Two, People

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• The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Horse, Team, Debt

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• What will drive people if they don't have money or reward? The reward is the end of war, the end of poverty, most crime, and the end of begging for medical care.  Everyone will be cared for and educated.  There will be no taxation, and no advantage group.  No technical elitism, or any other kind of elitism.  If that isn't incentive enough, then I don't know what is.

  Jacque Fresco

  War, People, Groups

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• Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Progressive Taxation, People

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.84, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Responsibility, Want, Handouts

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