A Quote by Doc Hastings

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

Doc Hastings

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Doc Hastings
American - Politician
Born: February 7, 1941

The estate tax has been a disaster. First of all it's double taxation, some people could even say it's triple taxation.

Donald Trump

That's the "magic" of double-taxation treaties: you can shop around for the lowest taxer.

Michael Hudson

Many people say the privatisation was unfair: that is true - it was unfair. That is a fact: some people became rich and others did not. Unfair does not mean illegal, but it was inevitably unfair.

Vladimir Potanin

Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not a mode of taxation. It is rather a mode of disguised expropriation of the successful capitalists and entrepreneurs.

Ludwig von Mises

Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time. Although some taxation is necessary, all taxation diminishes freedom.

George Will

All the forms of double taxation in the current system are punitive and self-destructive because they are literally destroying people's incentive to provide that seed corn for future economic growth.

Daniel J. Mitchell

Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.

David Ricardo

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

Milton Friedman

Printing money is merely taxation in another form.

Peter Schiff

The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all.

Richard Cobden

It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.

Jonathan Swift

Inflation is a form of hidden taxation which it is almost impossible to measure.

John J. Beckley

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

Auberon Herbert

An optimised tax structure gives us the possibility of flexibility in using our assets that have already been taxed in one market. They can be used in new markets for further business development without the additional burden of double taxation.