“ Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized. Albert Bushnell Hart ...
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Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
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Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.
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The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
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The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher, when asked about completing his income tax form.
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Tax rates should never be raised in some brackets without being raised in all brackets.
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The power to tax is the power to destroy.
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What people really want is fairness. They want people paying their fair share of taxes.
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You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.
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The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.
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Tax reform means, don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.
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It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.
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The problem is not that the people are taxed too little. The problem is that government spends too much.
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What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.
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If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
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The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.
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The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
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The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.
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One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.
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I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.
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Every culture has some ritual for joining two people together and making them stay that way, and ours is giving tax breaks.
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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
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Taxation with representation ain't so hot either.
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When there's a single thief, it's robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation.
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Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
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If the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, how he must hate the taxpayer!
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We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.
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Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.
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The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
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No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.
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There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
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I am thankful for the taxes I pay because it means that I'm employed.
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The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
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Taxation without representation is tyranny.
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The taxpayer, that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
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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.
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Capital punishment: The income tax.
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Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
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Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.
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There may be liberty and justice for all, but there are tax breaks only for some.
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.
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Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
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The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.
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You must pay taxes. But there's no law that says you gotta leave a tip.
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