167 Quotes About Taxation

Worse. Taxmen! Bandits we could fend off, but these fellas will fleece you like a ewe in spring.

You say, "There are men who have no money," and you apply the law. But the law is not a self-supplied fountain, whence every stream may obtain supplies independtly of society. Nothing can enter the public treasury, in favor of one citizen or one class, but what other citizens and other classes have been forced to send to it.

I refuse to believe that the only reason we are here is to pay taxes and die.

The only way for the state to finance its operations is through the forcible expropriation of productive wealth from its citizens.

If you have free trade and free circulation ofcapital and people but destroy the social state and all forms of progressive taxation, the temptations of defensive nationalism and identity politics will very likely grow stronger than ever in both Europe and the United States. Note, finally, that the less developed countries will be among the primary beneficiaries of a more just and transparent international tax system.

Inflation is taxation without legislation

Thi, endskiønt en Ting kand være den samme, saa foraarsager dog Maaden, paa hvilken den skeer, at den ikke bliver den samme. Derpaa grunde sig de mange Inventioner man haver udi Byrders Paaleg, og de mange Navne man setter paa Skatte; hvilke mange ansee, som idel Pedanterie, da dog derudi er en stor Politiqve, saasom Erfarenhed viser, at de fleeste Mennesker ville tracteres som smaa Børn, og at man uden Møye kand bringe dem til at undergaae Byrder, naar de paalegges under visse Navne.

We inherited a strong and flourishing country, and instead of making the investments - that is, the sacrifices - to maintain it, we chose to suck it dry and stick our children with the bill. If you want to see who is to blame for student debt, just look in the mirror. And if parents find themselves supporting kids beyond their college years, that is only, in the aggregate, a form of compensatory justice: the intergenerational transfer of wealth that should have been effected through taxation.

The cultivation of a single staple grain was, in itself, an important step in legibility and hence, appropriation. Monoculture fosters uniformity at many different levels. . .A society shaped powerfully by monoculture was easier to monitor, assess, and tax than one shaped by agricultural diversity.