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My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury. — Merton Miller

We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale. — Douglas Alexander

The United States has a system of taxation by confession — Hugo Black

No taxation without respiration. — Tom Feeney

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

Inflation is taxation without legislation — Milton Friedman

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you. — Albert Jay Nock

A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. — Thomas Tusser

Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry. — Margaret Thatcher

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper? — Robert Orben

Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America. — Edmund Burke

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing. — Jean-Baptiste Colbert

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

The more laws and restrictions there are,
The poorer people become.
...
The more rules and regulations,
The more thieves and robbers. — Lao-Tzu

To live with unforgiveness is to become a captive cultured citizen whose taxation is that of demonically ticketed torment. — Tracey Bond

The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds. — Steven Rattner

I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader. — Mark McKinnon

A fool and his money are soon married. — Carolyn Wells

Taxation is not a technical matter. It is preeminently a political and philosophical issue, perhaps the most important of all political issues. — Thomas Piketty

The man who is not permitted to own is owned. — George Santayana

You can't make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak — Abraham Lincoln

I'm willing to fight for Social Security, Medicare, student loans, U.S. jobs, equal pay, progressive taxation and full employment. — Alan Grayson

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

It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity. — William Vickrey

When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are. — Ian Hacking

A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation. — Henry Fielding

Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed. — John Maynard Keynes

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

Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world. — George Bernard Shaw

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

Government should concentrate on building up infrastructure and skill development. Simplification of taxation is another important area. — Jamshyd Godrej

term gains and all short term capital gains are taxable to investors. Please refer to the Taxation - Capital gain for more details. — Jigar Patel

No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others. — John Ruskin

No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant. — George Washington

Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr. — Will Rogers

Inflation is a form of hidden taxation which it is almost impossible to measure. — John J. Beckley

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning. — Samuel Johnson

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men. — Rose Wilder Lane

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. — Laurence J. Peter

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

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws. — Mariano Rajoy

Is there a point of taxation wherein even a Democrat would acknowledge it is thievery by the government? — Dennis Prager

Taxation is neither good nor bad in itself. Everything depends on how taxes are collected and what they are used for. — Thomas Piketty

Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation. — Owen Paterson

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt. — William Cobbett

The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything ... it amounts to ... a gross violation of human liberty. — Tibor R. Machan

Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo. — Terry Pratchett

I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation. — Lucy Stone

A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species. — James Madison

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil — Calvin Coolidge

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed. — Bernard Berenson

Inflation is taxation without representation. — Milton Friedman

The better an entrepreneur succeeds, the more is he vilified and themore is he soaked by taxation. — Ludwig Von Mises

Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project," a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation. — James C. Scott

The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous. — Charles A. Murray

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

Dis is bribery, is it?" he whispered. "This is taxation, — Terry Pratchett

The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation. — Sandy Adams

Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons — Robert Anton Wilson

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn. — Edward Abbey

An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms — Hans-Hermann Hoppe

It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field. — Joe Hockey

What's the best way to make sure that the poor have a share in a country's growing wealth: Regulation? Taxes? Philanthropy? — Linsey McGoey

The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else. — Frank Chodorov

Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory. — Thomas Jefferson

Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike. — Jean-Baptiste Say

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue. — Thomas Paine

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

I refuse to believe that the only reason we are here is to pay taxes and die. — Seth Adam Smith

Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away — Ludwig Von Mises

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

Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual. — Thomas Jefferson

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation. — Herbert Hoover

Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry. — Thomas Paine

Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives. — Edmund Phelps

Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils. — David Ricardo

To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that? — Richard D. Wolff

significant component of the federal law of tax-exempt organizations is the body of tax law concerning the conduct and taxation of unrelated trade — Anonymous

Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped. — Frank Chodorov

The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility. — Fulton J. Sheen

All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent. — Thomas Piketty

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

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. — Milton Friedman

If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands. — Thomas Jefferson

In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice. — Voltaire

Taxation for public housing destroys as many jobs in other lines as it creates in housing. — Henry Hazlitt

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. — John Ruskin

Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power. — Peter Schiff

Taxation is the legitimate support of government. — Adolphe Thiers

There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear. — Calvin Coolidge

The problem with taxation is that authors can't write off whiskey as a business expense. — Bryan Way

Abolish all taxation save that upon land values. — Henry George

Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized. — Albert Bushnell Hart

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

The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent. — Will Rogers

But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration. — Steve King

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer. — Mark Twain

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

We really need to change taxation policy so that it is not skewed against owning more than one house. — Andrew Forrest