Albert Camus Quotes

Damning taxes is a piece of cake. It's defending them that's hard.

It's a lethal thing to suddenly raise taxes.

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.

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.

There never has been a new tax that met with public enthusiasm.

The progressive feature of the income tax is the most dangerous element of democracy.

I cannot, in conscience, agree or be party to the use of such anti-people policies as taxation.

Taxes are a necessary evil of a civilized society.

The tax structure of the United States is fast becoming the most regressive of any Western nation.

Taxes are the lifeblood of Government

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

I cannot support taxing the taxpayer.

People are taxed enough.

As a general rule, governments are wise to avoid taxation that is voluntary, as they need a steady stream of income.

The easy way out is to increase taxes.

No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.

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?

Wealthy people don't even pay taxes. But everybody must pay taxes.

I will veto any tax increase.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

Tax policy is not about compassion.

It's not hard to cut taxes.

I think that taxes have to exist. They should exist at the lowest possible level, and to the extent that we can, we shouldn't invent more. Maybe that's my experience being mayor of New York City, where we had so many taxes.