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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
This is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free, but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Goodnight.
Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field.
It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity.
Confiscatory taxation enforced by threat of imprisonment is 'stealing,' a practice strongly frowned upon by our Creator.
Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
European pantywaists might keep voting for high-spending governments, but the U.S. was founded on a popular revolt against taxation.
Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?
We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws.
What I agree with is that we need a significantly changed taxation system. And the one that I've advocated is based on tithing, because I think God is a pretty fair guy.
Government should concentrate on building up infrastructure and skill development. Simplification of taxation is another important area.
When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are.
I don't have a chance [on being elected Mayor of New Orleans]. I'm running on the gay marriage, no religion, legalization and taxation of marijuana platform.
There is a need for greater multilateral cooperation to resolve trade conflicts, to address climate change and risks from cybersecurity, and to improve the effectiveness of international taxation.
The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.
As a general rule, governments are wise to avoid taxation that is voluntary, as they need a steady stream of income.
Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.
The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.
The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.
My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.
Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.
I believe reduced spending, lower taxation, and economic growth go hand-in-hand.
In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary.
Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation.
Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.
There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.
We really need to change taxation policy so that it is not skewed against owning more than one house.
The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.
What I know is that taxation, as far as liberal Democrats are concerned, is not about money. It's about power.
I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.
The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.
Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress.
All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.
Taxing companies, particularly successful multinational companies, is one of the most progressive forms of taxation.
It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.
No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.
If the exercise of power of internal taxation by the Union should be discovered on experiment to be really inconvenient, the federal government may then forbear the use of it . . .
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.
We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.
Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.
I think the Republicans have really thoughtful financial policies, and I'm more in the middle on taxation.
The biggest review of taxation ever undertaken in this country, is now dead in the water.
Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.
Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.
We are looking at ways to shift the balance of taxation away from work and on to the practices that are destroying the environment on which a healthy economy depends.
Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands.
Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike.
Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.
I'm willing to fight for Social Security, Medicare, student loans, U.S. jobs, equal pay, progressive taxation and full employment.
I believe in taxation and health care that is outside the usual libertarian mandate, because I don't want people to have to suffer. It's as simple as that.
Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation.
It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money.
The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and '20s.
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.
Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.
We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation, and reform the labor laws.