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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.
I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.
The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.
Confiscatory taxation enforced by threat of imprisonment is 'stealing,' a practice strongly frowned upon by our Creator.
It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.
The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.
I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
A small business person has Uncle Sam as a partner, a partner who puts up no money, does no work, and wants 30 or 40 percent
Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.
I'm willing to fight for Social Security, Medicare, student loans, U.S. jobs, equal pay, progressive taxation and full employment.
The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.
European pantywaists might keep voting for high-spending governments, but the U.S. was founded on a popular revolt against taxation.
Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.
Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.
Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.
Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo.
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.
Government should concentrate on building up infrastructure and skill development. Simplification of taxation is another important area.
The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.
I will eliminate capital-gains taxes for the small businesses and the startups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow
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.
The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.
Socialism means government dependency, rationed resources, and exorbitant taxation. It means the destruction of every incentive to achieve.
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.
The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.
Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.
All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people
Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
Tens of billions ... are going into the pockets of tens of thousands of tax preparers who ... love complexity as much as the rest of us hate it
Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four times as much by our Folly.
We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws.
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.
The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species.
Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose you more money than any single person in your life, with the possible exception of your kids
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.
He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities.
By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them.
It's income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and stab yourself in the aorta
Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress.
I believe in taxation and health care that is outside the usual libertarian mandate, because I don't want people to have to suffer. It's as simple as that.
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.
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.
As a taxpayer, you are required to be fully in compliance with the United States Tax Code, which is currently the size and weight of the Budweiser Clydesdales.
Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.
This is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free, but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Goodnight.
If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.