Taxation Quotes - Page 16

• If the exercise of power of internal taxation by the Union should be discovered on experiment to be really inconvenient, the federal government may then forbear the use of it . . .

  Alexander Hamilton

  Exercise, Government, Use

  Alexander Hamilton (1999). “The Federalist Papers”, p.145, Lulu.com

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• The power of creating new funds upon new objects of taxation, by its own authority, would enable the national government to borrow as far as its necessities might require.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Creating, Might

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2017). “The Federalist Papers (Including Declaration of Independence & United States Constitution): Written by the Founding Fathers in Favor of the Constitution – Arguments that Created the Modern America”, p.150, Madison & Adams Press

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• Peace and prosperity are inversely proportional to the level of taxation.

  John Pugsley

  Levels, Prosperity

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• The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything, because it amounts to nothing less than outright extortion, a gross violation of human liberty.

  Tibor R. Machan

  Liberty, Institutions, Method

  "What's Wrong with Taxation?". mises.org. November 22, 2002.

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• More investment sins are probably committed by otherwise quite intelligent people because of "tax considerations" than from any other cause. One of my friends-a noted West Coast philosopher-maintains that a majority of life's errors are caused by forgetting what one is really trying to do. This is certainly the case when an emotionally supercharged element like taxes enters the picture (I have another friend-a noted East Coast philosopher who says it isn't the lack of representation he minds-it's the taxation).

  Warren Buffett

  Intelligent, Errors, People

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• The government is there day in and day out, if you want all kids to have education, if you want to run courts, if you want to have an army, if you want to have roads, you've got to have the taxation system that funds everything that you expect.

  Bill Gates

  Running, Kids, Army

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people

  Henry Adams

  People, Evil, Heavy

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• It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation, he will be arrested or shot if he should continue to resist.

  Murray Rothbard

  Exercise, Trying, Doe

  Murray N. Rothbard (2015). “The Ethics of Liberty”, p.163, NYU Press

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• Strictly speaking, it probably is not “necessary” for the federal government to tax anyone directly; it could simply print the money it needs. However, that would be too bold a stroke, for it would then be obvious to all what kind of counterfeiting operation the government is running. The present system combining taxation and inflation is akin to watering the milk; too much water and the people catch on.

  Ron Paul

  Running, Government, People

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• The libertarian sees the State as a giant gang of organized criminals, who live off the theft called "taxation" and use the proceeds to kill, enslave, and generally push people around. Therefore, any property in the hands of the State is in the hands of thieves, and should be liberated as quickly as possible. Any person or group who liberates such property, who confiscates or appropriates it from the State, is performing a virtuous act and a signal service to the cause of liberty.

  Murray Rothbard

  Hands, People, Liberty

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• It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  War, Civilization, Citizens

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• It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that excessive revenues are obtained. Monarchy is well calculated to ensure this end. It is the popery of government; a thing kept up to amuse the ignorant, and quiet them into taxes.

  Thomas Paine

  Believe, Men, Mysterious Things

  Thomas Paine (1856). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.99

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• Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked the woman what here sorrow was, and she replied, We are a family of hunters. My father was eaten by a tiger. My husband was bitten by a tiger and died. And now my only son! Why don't you move down and live in the valley? Why do you continue to live up here? asked Confucius. And the woman replied, But sir, there are no tax collectors here! Confucius added to his disciples, You see, a bad government is more to be feared than tigers.

  Lin Yutang

  Husband, Father, Moving

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• The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

  Calvin Trillin

  Ceilings, Way, Gains

  Calvin Trillin (1987). “Uncivil liberties”, Penguin Group USA

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• I don't have a chance [on being elected Mayor of New Orleans]. I'm running on the gay marriage, no religion, legalization and taxation of marijuana platform.

  Brad Pitt

  Running, Gay, Marijuana

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• Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor.

  Robert Nozick

  Liberty, Libertarian, Earning

  Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”

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• No government can provide social security. It is not in the nature of government to be able to provide anything. Government itself is not self-supporting. It lives by taxation. Therefore, since it cannot provide for itself but by taking toll of what the people produce, how can it provide social security for the people?

  Garet Garrett

  Government, Self, People

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• The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.

  Robert Ringer

  Envy, Greed, Insatiable

  Robert J. Ringer (1983). “How you can find happiness during the collapse of Western civilization”, Harpercollins

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• Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.

  Mark Levin

  Regulation, Form, Property

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.

  Murray Rothbard

  Government, Coercion, Institutions

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• New taxes are so unpopular that most 'social' handout schemes are originally enacted without enough increased taxation to pay for them. The result is chronic government deficits, paid for by the issuance of additional paper money.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Paper, Pay

  Henry Hazlitt (1996). “The Conquest of Poverty”

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• Printing money is merely taxation in another form.

  Peter Schiff

  Printing Money, Printing, Form

  "The Fault Lines Emerge". www.321gold.com. March 28, 2009.

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• Most politicians are ever eager to regulate industrial and commercial activity and strike at the economic elite with confiscatory taxation. Unfortunately, regulation and taxation tend to hamper economic activity, inhibit productivity, and depress levels of living.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Depressing, Levels, Regulation

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• To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.

  Antonin Scalia

  Sex, Decision, Gay Marriage

  "Who is Antonin Scalia and why is he out of touch with changing social views?" by Dan Roberts, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2015.

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• The estate tax has been a disaster. First of all it's double taxation, some people could even say it's triple taxation.

  Donald Trump

  People, Firsts, Disaster

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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