Taxation Quotes

“Government is a coercive institution. That is its nature. And the instrument of coercion is taxation.”

“The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil...not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.”

“You can't get rid of the deficit by raising taxes. It's like trying to fill a bathtub with a thimble while the drain is open.”

“You cannot grow the economy and jobs by taxing and spending.”

“If you want more of something, you subsidize it. If you want less of something, you tax it.”

“We need to make sure that our tax code is fair and that everyone pays their fair share.”

“The legal-tender notes are a forced loan from the people, and their depreciation is a tax upon them.”

“Taxation is theft. It is the government taking your property without your consent.”

“The truth is, the Government cannot give anybody anything that it does not take from somebody else.”

“Twopence in this case is a very high, and in most cases a prohibitory, tax.”

“It has never been the theory of our tax law to confiscate.”

“Don't steal; the government hates competition.”

“When you rob Peter to pay Paul, you can always count on the support of Paul.”

“Whatever you tax, you get less of.”

“Taxation is the taking of a man's property against his consent; and if you take a man's property against his consent, you are committing a robbery.”

“Any man who has an income of a million dollars a year should be satisfied.”

“We need a tax system that is fair and simple, that's not a drag on our economy.”

“The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being regulated to death.”

“Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.”

“The high rates of surtax are responsible for a twofold loss to the Government... first, the loss of revenue which is not collected, and secondly, the loss of revenue which is not produced.”