Taxation Quotes

“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.”

“America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.”

“Inflation is taxation without legislation.”

“Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.”

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

“The problem with taxation is that authors can't write off whiskey as a business expense.”

“Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project," a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation.”

“I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this enormous inequality [in Europe] producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property,...[One] means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise.”

“If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.”

“We inherited a strong and flourishing country, and instead of making the investments - that is, the sacrifices - to maintain it, we chose to suck it dry and stick our children with the bill. If you want to see who is to blame for student debt, just look in the mirror. And if parents find themselves supporting kids beyond their college years, that is only, in the aggregate, a form of compensatory justice: the intergenerational transfer of wealth that should have been effected through taxation.”