Quotes of: Taxation Keyword

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

Andrew Jackson

We really need to change taxation policy so that it is not skewed against owning more than one house.

Andrew Forrest

I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.

Mark McKinnon

Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.

Samuel Freeman Miller

What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.

Thomas Piketty

If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.

Lysander Spooner

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

Mariano Rajoy

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

William Weld

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.

Edmund Barton

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

Merton Miller

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

John Ruskin

Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!

Malcolm Turnbull

Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more and more people are able to take care of themselves.

Grover Norquist

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Vladimir Lenin

Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.

Rick Perry

The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.

Steven Rattner

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

Fletcher Knebel

We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.

Adam Davidson

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

Rush Limbaugh

We ought, therefore, to lessen the price of food to our manufacturers, and place them more on a level with the manufacturers who have cheaper food, and also much lighter taxation.

Joseph Hume

Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.

Robert Toombs