(94 quotes found)
“We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle”
Winston Churchill
“Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them”
Margaret Mitchell
“For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance”
Thomas Jefferson
“When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.”
Plato
“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”
James Madison
“Another 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 geometric progression as they rise”
“Inflation is taxation without legislation”
Milton Friedman
“There's a lot of evidence you can sell people on tax increases if they think it's an investment”
Bill Clinton
“Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces”
Terry Pratchett
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