Taxation Quotes

There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'

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

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

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

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

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.

In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to protect it from foreign danger, or to secure individuals from lawless violence and rapine.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

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

I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside.

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

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

I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.

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

The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.

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.

Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons

Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo.

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.

Contrary to any claim of a systematically “neutral” effect of taxation on production, the consequence of any such shortening of roundabout methods of production is a lower output produced. The price that invariably must be paid for taxation, and for every increase in taxation, is a coercively lowered productivity that in turn reduces the standard of living in terms of valuable assets provided for future consumption. Every act of taxation necessarily exerts a push away from more highly capitalized, more productive production processes in the direction of a hand-to-mouth-existence.

If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate bounds. This forms a complete barrier against any material oppression of the citizens by taxes of this class, and is itself a natural limitation of the power of imposing them.

No taxation without respiration.

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

But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.

The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business.

This is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free, but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Goodnight.

Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We have the high cost of government to diminish, and we are diminishing it. We have a heavy burden of taxation to reduce, and we are reducing it. But while remarkable progress has been made in these directions, the work is yet far from accomplished.

If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.

The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.

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!

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

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.

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.

Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.

Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.

Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.

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

This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair.

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.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.

In a general sense, all contributions imposed by the government upon individuals for the service of the state, are called taxes, by whatever name they may be known, whether by the name of tribute, tythe, tallage, impost, duty, gabel, custom, subsidy, aid, supply, excise, or other name.

Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.