Top Taxation Quotes

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may h...

Taxation Definition

(n.) The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes, as on the subjects of a state, by government, or on the members of a corporation or company, by the proper authority; the raising of revenue; also, a system of raising revenue.

(n.) The act of taxing, or assessing a bill of cost.

(n.) Tax; sum imposed.

(n.) Charge; accusation.

Having a Constitutional political party is a little like telling a car-jacker, "You're not allowed to do what you're doing! And if you don't stop it right now, we are going to ask you to order yoursel...

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

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.

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

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.

Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, you can't send the government to steal for you.

There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensate...

It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and the American economy.

Conflict is not unavoidable. However, it is nonsensical to consider the institution of a state as a solution to the problem of possible conflict, because it is precisely the institution of a state whi...

Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.

Private property and free trade stand on exactly the same footing, both being essential and indivisible parts of liberty, both depending upon rights, which no body of men, whether called governments o...

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?

So why don’t Americans cheat? Because they think that their system is legitimate. People accept authority when they see that it treats everyone equally, when it is possible to speak up and be heard, a...

The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one could argue, to whom one could pre...

The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

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

When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.