Taxation System Quotes

There is nothing more permanent than a temporary government building—unless it's a temporary tax.

Taxes are what pays for a civilized society.

Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.

The power to tax is not the power to destroy.

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.

The income tax is the most regressive tax imaginable, allowing government to take first claim on our lives. The income tax assumes government owns us, as individuals, and has a sovereign claim to the fruits of our labor.

The American taxing structure, the purpose of which was to serve the people, began instead to serve the insatiable appetite of government. If you will forgive me, you know someone has once likened government to a baby. It is an alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

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

If you tax something, you get less of it. If you subsidize something, you get more of it.

Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.

The income tax is the fairest, the most equitable system of taxation that has yet been devised.

Different countries have different kinds of financial structures.

Democratic socialism means, that in a democratic, civilized society, the wealthiest people and the largest corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.

I think that actually people in my situation should be paying more tax.

I think governments can't do much.

America is the land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

Taxes will always be lower under a Coalition government

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a "taxing machine," to the contented a "machine for securing property.

Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.

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

A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

The power to tax is the power to govern.

The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take, If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.