Taxation Quotes - Page 8

• Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not a mode of taxation. It is rather a mode of disguised expropriation of the successful capitalists and entrepreneurs.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Successful, Progressive Taxation, Names

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• Close loopholes, close the special interest Washington carve outs and that means more incomes subject to taxation so we`re going to lower the rates on our businesses and be fair.

  Paul Ryan

  Mean, Special, Income

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• If the present American laws concerning the taxation of the profits of corporations, the incomes of individuals, and inheritances had been introduced about 60 years ago, all those new products whose consumption has raised the standard of living of the 'common man' would either not be produced at all or only in small quantities for the benefit of a minority. The Ford enterprises would not exist if Henry Ford's profits had been taxed away as soon as they came into being.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Years, Law

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• The rates of taxation climb and the levels of capital decline, until the only remaining wealth beyond the reach of the regime is the very protein of human flesh, and that too is finally taxed, bound, and gagged, and brought to the colossal temple of the state - a final sacrifice of carnal revenue to feed the declining elite.

  George Gilder

  Sacrifice, Levels, Flesh

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.349, Regnery Publishing

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• I believe in thrift as I believe in freedom, but I don't support the plutocratic hostility to taxation, regulation, and protections of land, water, and air.

  Wendell Berry

  Believe, Land, Air

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• That's the "magic" of double-taxation treaties: you can shop around for the lowest taxer.

  Michael Hudson

  Magic, Treaties, Shops

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.

  Thomas Paine

  Hands, Political, Politics

  Thomas Paine (1848). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.129

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• If this taxation exemptions for Church were rescinded, our property taxes would be substantially lowered, and those who rent houses and apartments would consequently be able to pass along this savings in the form of lowered rents. It could have a profoundly salubrious effect on the entire economy.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  House, Church, Would Be

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• Of course, there's been a real debate about where to invest and where to cut, and I'm committed to working with members of both parties to cut our deficits and debt. But we can't simply cut our way to prosperity.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Party, Cutting

  "President to Meet with Senate Leaders; Minot Evacuees Can't Go Back Home Yet; Indonesian Workers Banned From Saudi Jobs; TSA Forces 95-Year-Old to Remove Adult Diaper; Bachmann to Declare Bid Monday". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. June 26, 2011.

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• Inflation is a form of hidden taxation which it is almost impossible to measure.

  John J. Beckley

  Impossible, Economy, Form

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• The churches rose to power on the income from tax-free property. What earthly -or heavenly- right have they got to enjoy a privilege denied to everyone else, even including nonprofit organizations? None! My contention is that with the churches exempted from property taxation, you and I have to pay that much more in taxes to make up for what they're not contributing.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Organization, Rose, Church

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• Taxation is the legitimate support of government.

  Adolphe Thiers

  Government, Support, Taxes

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• I decided that if nobody else was going to do anything to rectify this colossal inequity in taxation, I'd have to do it myself. So I instituted a suit against the city of Baltimore demanding that the city assessor be specifically ordered to assess the Church for its vast property holdings in the city, and that the city tax collector then be instructed to collect the taxes once the assessment has been made.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Assessment, Cities, Church

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• The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.

  James A. Garfield

  Education, Individual Effort, Support

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 2”, p.25, Best Books on

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• I think with the advent of Reagan, and subsequently, both parties, there's been a strong move towards the advantage given to the richer people, in taxation and grants and supplements and things of that kind. Primarily exacerbated more recently by the Supreme Court's stupid ruling on Citizens United, and now there's a massive flood of money into the political system that I think has subverted the essence of a moral and ethical standard that used to permeate American democracy. Now it's not an admirable process. I think we've gone backwards.

  Jimmy Carter

  Strong, Stupid, Party

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Only dramatic cuts in the federal deficit, a rollback of regulations that cripple small and community banks, a cancellation of future tax increase plans, a big reduction in federal spending, repeal of Obamacare, freeing manufacturing from the prospect of carbon taxation and unleashing out domestic energy potential can solve our problems. But Obama is not about to undo his legacy of disaster for the American people.

  Dick Morris

  Cutting, Obamacare, People

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• The American Dream was not about government's taking huge sums of money (under the label of "taxation") from citizens by force. The American Dream was about individualism and the opportunity to achieve success without interference from others.

  Robert Ringer

  Dream, Opportunity, Government

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• It is an absurd fiction that the churches are useful. They are nothing more than propaganda centers for superstitious faiths and doctrines. Church members have a right to believe in and propagate their various doctrines. But they should pay every item of the cost, of this propaganda, including fair taxation for all church property.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Believe, Church, Pay

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• Even if you assume that the whole economy would work better had we never had double taxation, having the envy and resentment of the richest paying low or no taxes screams of injustice. You have to have a fair system.

  Charlie Munger

  Envy, Resentment, Assuming

  Charlie Munger's advice on life and other at the 2003 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 3, 2003.

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• All the forms of double taxation in the current system are punitive and self-destructive because they are literally destroying people's incentive to provide that seed corn for future economic growth.

  Daniel J. Mitchell

  Self, People, Growth

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• Highly graduate taxation realizes most completely the supreme danger of democracy, creating a state of things in which one class imposes on another burdens which it is not asked to share, and impels the State into vast schemes of extravagance, under the belief that the whole costs will be thrown upon others.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Class, Creating, Democracy

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• A good person is one who follows the Ten Commandments and the golden rule. There is plenty of precedent in history to guide us and we probably evolved to be sensitive to Bible-Golden Rule situations. But the dilemmas faced by a worker - a journalist, an architect, an auditor - or by a citizen (what position to take on stem cell research, whether to run for office, what is the proper balance between taxation and social nets) - are not questions that can be answered by traditional texts or precedents.

  Howard Gardner

  Running, Cells, Office

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• The surest way for a poor nation to stay poor is to harass, hobble, and straitjacket private enterprise or to discourage or destroy it by subsidized government competition, oppressive taxation, or outright expropriation.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Competition, Poor Nations

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.171, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, Progressive Taxation, Class

  Ludwig von Mises (2015). “Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism”, p.32, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Collecting, Taxes, Aim

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

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