Taxation Quotes - Page 5

• No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil. It is your fellow workers who are ordered to work for the Government, every time an appropriation bill is passed. The people pay the expense of government, often many times over, in the increased cost of living. I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Cost Of Living, Government, People

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• The Declaration of Independence, the words that launched our nation -- 1,300 words. The Bible, the word of God -- 773,000 words. The Tax Code, the words of politicians -- 7,000,000 words -- and growing!

  Steve Forbes

  Independence, Growing, Politician

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• I wouldn't mind paying taxes... if I knew they were going to a friendly country

  Dick Gregory

  Country, Mind, Friendly

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• If politicians get money to spend and don't have to be responsible for taxation, then of course that will bias their attitude toward more spending as opposed to cutting back on spending.

  James M. Buchanan

  Attitude, Cutting, Get Money

  Source: www.aims.ca

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• I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day.

  Ronald Reagan

  Political, Economics, Taxes

  Remarks to American Business Conference, Washington, D.C., 13 Mar. 1985 See Film Lines 164

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• A government is a compulsory territorial monopolist of ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction) and, implied in this, a compulsory territorial monopolist of taxation. That is, a government is the ultimate arbiter, for the inhabitants of a given territory, regarding what is just and what is not, and it can determine unilaterally, i.e., without requiring the consent of those seeking justice or arbitration, the price that justice-seekers must pay to the government for providing this service.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Government, Justice, Decision

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• It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity.

  William Vickrey

  Guarantees That, Land, Humanity

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• The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would obtain progressive taxation to the disadvantage of the well-off, and that they would end up with an arrangement in which taxes are voted by those who do not pay them.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Philosophy, Progressive Taxation, Political

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• The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.

  Eric Pianka

  Real, Technology, Men

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• Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation by taxation and otherwise, need not and should not borrow capital at interest as a means of financing government work and public enterprises.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mean, Government, Issues

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• If all those magnificent cathedrals with their valuable lands in Boston, Philadelphia and New York were taxed as they should be, the taxes of women who hold property would be proportionately lightened....I cannot see any good reason why wealthy churches and a certain amount of property of the clergy should be exempt from taxation, while every poor widow in the land, struggling to feed, clothe, and educate a family of children, must be taxed on the narrow lot and humble home.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  New York, Children, Struggle

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• The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Dollars, Withdrawal

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• I've been told that some members of Congress disagree with my tax cut proposal. Well, you know it's been said that taxation is the art of plucking feathers without killing the bird. It's time they realized the bird just doesn't have any feathers left.

  Ronald Reagan

  Art, Cutting, Bird

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.179, Best Books on

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• The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea, the magnitude of the evil comprized in the precedent. Let them exert the same wisdom, in watching agst every evil lurking under plausible disguises, and growing up from small beginnings.

  James Madison

  Growing Up, People, Evil

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• It is evident from the state of the country, from the habits of the people, from the experience we have had on the point itself, that it is impracticable to raise any very considerable sums by direct taxation.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, People, Habit

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788”, p.55

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• Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

  Rose Macaulay

  Reading, Doe, Fiction

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• The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps, no legislative act in which greater opportunity and temptation are given to a predominant party to trample on the rules of justice. Every shilling which they overburden the inferior number is a shilling saved to their own pockets.

  James Madison

  Party, Opportunity, Numbers

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1831). “The Federalist on the New Constitution”, p.48

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• An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Contradiction, States, Term

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• Governments first of all have been able to amass, through the taxation process, large sums of capital which they have redistributed to persons or groups, already large holders of capital, through official subsidies.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Government, Groups, Subsidies

  Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.54, Verso

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• I will eliminate capital-gains taxes for the small businesses and the startups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Gains, Tomorrow

  Barack Obama (2008). “Yes, We Can”, p.73, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I think that we've had an economy that's been out of balance for too long. So the general principle of raising taxes on higher income Americans, like myself, and providing relief to those who haven't benefited as much from this new global economy, I think is a sound one.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Long, Balance

  Interview with John Harwood, www.cnbc.com. June 10, 2008.

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• All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?

  Lawrence Summers

  Why Not, Pollution, Good Things

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• Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes

  Franklin P. Adams

  Axes, Earth, Taxes

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• Print neatly. That's the kind of advice that the IRS considers a "dynamite" tax tip. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless.

  Dave Barry

  Real, Advice, Irs

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• Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't have to pay taxes

  Gore Vidal

  Running, Country, Law

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