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Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form
That's the "magic" of double-taxation treaties: you can shop around for the lowest taxer.
The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
The biggest review of taxation ever undertaken in this country, is now dead in the water.
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.
I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.
An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms
The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.
Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.
The better an entrepreneur succeeds, the more is he vilified and themore is he soaked by taxation.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
We really need to change taxation policy so that it is not skewed against owning more than one house.
We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax.
Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike.
Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal
Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
Less regulation plus less taxation plus less litigation always equals more innovation and job creation.
I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.
Is there a point of taxation wherein even a Democrat would acknowledge it is thievery by the government?
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.
The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money
I think the Republicans have really thoughtful financial policies, and I'm more in the middle on taxation.
There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.
My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
What I know is that taxation, as far as liberal Democrats are concerned, is not about money. It's about power.
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.
Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay
Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.
The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.
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.
[The Internal Revenue Code is] about 10 times the size of the Bible and, unlike the Bible, contains no good news
If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.
Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.
All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?
The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and '20s.
Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!
Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.
Taxing companies, particularly successful multinational companies, is one of the most progressive forms of taxation.
As a general rule, governments are wise to avoid taxation that is voluntary, as they need a steady stream of income.
The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation.
Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.