Quotes: Taxation

We ought, therefore, to lessen the price of food to our manufacturers, and place them more on a level with the manufacturers who have cheaper food, and also much lighter taxation.

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.

Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.