Taxation Quotes

I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.

I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.

This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.