Alexander Hamilton Quotes

If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us?

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

Anything to do with any new form of tax, like consumption tax in Japan, carbon tax in Australia, these are big issues that cannot be easily decided.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.

In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

Taxes grow without rain.

When the income tax was passed, that provided a virtual unlimited supply of money for government.

We have a tax code that works. It brings in our revenue at the lowest cost of administration in the world.

Bob Dole is the tax collector for the welfare state.

Taxes are the lifeblood of Government

A dynamic economy, with more citizens working and paying taxes, will be our strongest tool to bring down budget deficits

Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury.

They are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare, but only to lay taxes for that purpose.

A tax can never be favorable to the public welfare, except by the good use that is made of its proceeds.

The taxes derived from distilled and malt liquors and from tobacco, as reported by the United States Commissioner, in 1912 amounted to $290,250,000. This was considerably more than the entire congressional appropriations for the army and navy; and in sixteen months these taxes pour into the treasury more than the estimated cost of the Panama Canal.

As a revenue raiser, gambling defies every principle. It’s regressive—it takes far more money out of poor people’s pockets than it does for higher income [people]. It’s cannibalistic—it eats other forms of revenue—when you have your citizens dumping $2 billion down the slots [slot machines], they’re not buying a car, and you lose that tax.

Taxes are not trivial - they're a huge portion of this overall economy. And that's why I focused on them.

Provision of facilities to the masses is linked with the collection of taxes.

We have to have an adequate number of taxes and an adequate amount of taxes.

The sales tax is a necessary source of revenue to pay for Japan's social welfare.

Who can dispute that the governments of the United States constitute the most voracious tax system in the history of mankind? In the year 2000, those governments succeeded in laying hands on more than $3 trillion - almost $11,000 each for the 275 million men, women, and children resident in the country. No other nation-state rakes in an amount even close to the U.S. total.

Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.

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

Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power.