Quotes about Taxation Issue

Mark Twain

The lottery is a government institution & the poor its best patrons.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. The differential damage to the poor of lotteries was well known in the 19th century but the desire for money of governments, non-profit organizations, and corporations who administer many of the lotteries, blunted attempts to outlaw public lotteries. By the 21st century U. S. State Governments ran the largest lotteries in the world with the same differential detriment to the poor that Twain had described herein.

Hillary Clinton

We have undocumented immigrants in America who are paying more federal income tax than a billionaire. I find that just astonishing.

Will Rogers

The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent.

Donald Sutherland

No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had.

Marlin Stutzman

Either we start cutting the government and shrinking the size of government, or else we're going to face the political wrath of the American people.

Association of the Sons of Liberty of New York

Resolved, that whoever shall aid or abet, or in any manner assist, in the introduction of tea from any place whatsoever, into this colony, while it is subject, by a British Act of Parliament, to the payment of a duty, for the purpose of raising a revenue in America, he shall be deemed an enemy to the liberties of America.

Lucy Stone

I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.

Ginny Brown-Waite

The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.

Taxation Issue Quotes