Top Tax Quotes

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 g...

I found most of my friends quite content to be used as tax-material, even though the sums of money taken from them were employed against their own beliefs and interests. They had lived so long under t...

Tax Definition

(n.) A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority.

(n.) A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government.

(n.) Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like.

(n.) A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses.

(n.) A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.

(n.) A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health.

(n.) Charge; censure.

(n.) A lesson to be learned; a task.

(n.) To subject to the payment of a tax or taxes; to impose a tax upon; to lay a burden upon; especially, to exact money from for the support of government.

(n.) To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court.

(n.) To charge; to accuse; also, to censure; -- often followed by with, rarely by of before an indirect object; as, to tax a man with pride.

Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most.

I pay more tax registered in Holland than I would in the USA, but better gieing to the Dutch to build dams than the Yanks to build bombs.

Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.

For the U.S., I think we should have a carbon tax, for environmental reasons.

Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who do not pay tax.

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

It seems like the richer you are, the more chance you have of paying less tax.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax.

It's a social contract we make. We're willing to give up certain things. We give you the right to tax us. We give you the right to lock us up. We give you the right to put us on surveillance, search o...

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and ta...

We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simp...

The Fair Tax Equation: T=I(I(.000001))

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The power to tax is the power to destroy.