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• It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit, which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end purposed - that is, an extension of the revenue.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Excess, Limits, Advantage

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• In a general sense, all contributions imposed by the government upon individuals for the service of the state, are called taxes, by whatever name they may be known, whether by the name of tribute, tythe, tallage, impost, duty, gabel, custom, subsidy, aid, supply, excise, or other name.

  Joseph Story

  Government, Names, Subsidies

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• As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to protect it from foreign danger, or to secure individuals from lawless violence and rapine.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Debt, Pay

  Alexander Hamilton (1851). “Political essays [etc., 1792-1804] Contents. Index”, p.737

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• Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Promise, Election Time, Politician

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• What really gets me is this - it's very ironic that those who are most critical of extra tax are those who are most vociferous in demanding extra expenditure. What gets me even more is that having demanded that extra expenditure they are not prepared to face the consequences of their own action and stand by the necessity to get the tax to pay for it. I wish some of them had a bit more guts and courage than they have.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Ironic, Wish, Pay

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• Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.

  Bill Gates

  India, Needs, Development

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• Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation.

  Robert Higgs

  Elements, Economy, Form

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• Those of us who understand human history know the role taxation has played in shaping the destiny of mankind. The matter of taxes - more specifically, the right to tax - is clearly no stranger to controversy and has frequently served as the catalyst for revolutionary change.

  Owen Arthur

  Destiny, Matter, Roles

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• In any socialist government, they must destroy all alliances other than your alliance to the government, and they want the government to become your God. That for you to totally depend upon government. So we become slaves to government, through taxation, through regulation, through all kinds of restrictions, that makes us not free anymore.

  Rafael Cruz

  Socialist Government, Alliances, Want

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of all moral reflections, than to be at the expence of building navies, filling them with men, and then hauling them into the ocean, to try which can sink each other fastester. Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infintely more advantage than any victory with all its expence. But this, though it best answers the purpose of Nations, does not that of Court Governments, whose habited policy is pretence for taxation, places, and offices.

  Thomas Paine

  Ocean, Thinking, Reflection

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• The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state ....As Henry Home (Lord Kames) has written, a goal of taxation should be to 'remedy inequality of riches as much as possible, by relieving the poor and burdening the rich.'

  Adam Smith

  Home, Government, Goal

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• 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.

  Mark Skousen

  Failure, Pay, Ultimate Success

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• Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Money, Weapons, Monopoly

  Robert Anton Wilson (2012). “The Illuminati Papers”, p.21, Ronin Publishing

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

  William Weld

  Thinking, Government, Moral

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• Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange,
  Although he fleeced the flags of every nation,
  For into a prime minister but change
  His title, and 'tis nothing but taxation.

  Lord Byron

  Titles, Flags, Cash

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.80

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• We very much hope that as we get growth that we can reduce the burden of taxation, that we can reduce income tax and increase the amount of genuine free enterprise and business enterprise... This is going... toward the restoration of the personal responsibility, the independence, with every man a property owner, every man a capitalist.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Men

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

  Bill Vaughan

  Creating, People, Poverty

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• If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.

  Lysander Spooner

  Government, United States, Dollars

  "Let's Abolish Government".

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• It is a well known and very important fact that America's founding fathers did not like taxation without representation. It is a lesser known and equally important fact that they did not much like taxation with representation.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Father, America, Important

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• The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.

  Sting

  Butterfly, Trying, World

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• Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Earth, Territory, American Justice

  "Jefferson: Writings".

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• Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as much drama in it; moreover, it has been mellowed and made gay by as many gaudy, preposterous theories

  H. L. Mencken

  Drama, Gay, Golf

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.279, Cosimo, Inc.

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• America need a significantly changed taxation system. And the one that I've advocated is based on tithing, because I think God is a pretty fair guy. If you give me a tithe, it doesn't matter how much you make. If you've had a bumper crop, you don't owe me triple tithes. And if you've had no crops at all, you don't owe me no tithes. So there must be something inherently fair about it.

  Benjamin Carson

  Thinking, America, Giving

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The biggest review of taxation ever undertaken in this country, is now dead in the water.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Country, Water, Reviews

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• If the US government spends 40 percent of the nation's income, as it does through either borrowing or taxes, that income is not available for people to spend. The deficit is an indirect method of taxation. Of course, politicians prefer to borrow instead of tax because then someone down the road has to deal with the consequences.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, People, Doe

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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