Madalyn Murray O'Hair Quotes

Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.

I think it's a little unfair for people to say you're not paying your fair share of taxes. I'm paying what I'm supposed to pay. Change the law, and I'll pay what I'm supposed to pay.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

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

Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.

Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.

The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.

My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees.

You know, the taxing authority of the United States is our most powerful weapon. You know, the reason we separated from England was because the British were using it abusively.

I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.

[Describing out tax system:] ... a disgrace to the human race.

Congress should know how to levy taxes, and if it doesn't know how to collect them, then a man is a fool to pay the taxes.

Among the general Causes is, First, the unwillingness of the people to pay them [taxes]; arising from an opinion, that by delay and reluctancy they may wholly avoid them, with a suspicion that what is imposed is too much, or that what is collected is embezzled or ill expended, or that it is unequally levied and assessed.

Something is terribly wrong with the tax laws of this country and the way they are enforced. So I quit.

The United States has a system of taxation by confession

Tax fairness is very difficult to achieve. Each individual says, ‘Tax codes which make others pay more is fair to me. If I have to pay more, the code is unfair’.

By an equal obligation … every citizen with the same means would pay the same contributions [taxes]; the common man would not be more heavily imposed upon.

One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.

Confiscatory taxation enforced by threat of imprisonment is 'stealing,' a practice strongly frowned upon by our Creator.

African countries lose the most from tax dodging. African governments must, therefore, do more to push for a full reform of the global tax system and demand action from countries, such as the U.K., whose financial centres sit at the heart of the global network of tax havens.

I pay my taxes.

As to the Income Tax, my opinion is that the needful revenue would be fairly and most fairly raised if paid by property, and by individuals in proportion to their property. A Property Tax should be an assessment upon all land and buildings, and canals and railroads, but not on property such as machinery, stock in trade, etc. The aristocracy have squeezed all they can out of the mass of the consumers, and now they lay their daring hands on those not wholly impoverished.

In 1850, I believe, the church property in the United States, which paid no tax, amounted to $87 million. In 1900, without a check, it is safe to say, this property will reach a sum exceeding $3 billion. I would suggest the taxation of all property equally.

There's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers

The real problem with the IRS is that they let General Electric not pay any taxes -- and 50 other corporations -- that's the real scandal.