“It is easier to start taxes than to stop them. A tax an inch long can easily become a yard long. That has been the history of the income tax. Would not the sales tax be likely to have a similar history [in the U.S.]? ... Canadian newspapers report that an increase in the sales tax threatens to drive the Mackenzie King administration out of office. Canada began with a sales tax of 2%.... Starting this month the tax is 6%. The burden, in other words, has already been increased 200% ... What the U.S. needs is not new taxes, is not more taxes, but fewer and lower taxes.” NeedsLongHas BeensMonthsKingsEasierTaxesOfficeIncreaseStartingBurdenNewspapersIncomeAdministrationReportsCanadaFewerInchesYardsIncome TaxSales Tax Author:B. C. Forbes
“It's interesting because the Thai king says there's no prostitution in Thailand, it doesn't exist, so the prostitutes don't pay taxes. They can work other jobs if they want and put away money, maybe leave when they're 40.” IfsWantJobsInterestingPayKingsTaxesProstitutionThailandThai Author:Michael Glawogger
“God can use anything, and anyone - even a king or a president, even a tax collector or a businessman, a priest or a prostitute, a Republican or a Democrat.” UsePresidentKingsRepublicanTaxesDemocratPriestsBusinessmanCollectors Author:Shane Claiborne
“The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.” ShouldActionJusticeRevolutionKingsTaxesDirectWake UpChiefsStampsObamacareColonyAmerican RevolutionWake Up CallChief JusticeCall To ActionKing George IiiStamp Act Author:Rand Paul
“It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.” PeopleFeltCrimeReturnKingsTaxesHighestArmyCriminalsGuiltyRoyalAccountingProprietyPrerogativeDisloyalty Author:John Buchanan Robinson
“I was listening," the king said, aggrieved. "I closed my eyes to listen better." "What did you hear?" "I'm not sure," he said." That's why I was listening so closely. I may have to ask the baron to repeat some parts of his report on his grain tax." "I am sure you can arrange an appointment." "I am sure I can too.” MaySaidI CanEyeAsksListeningKingsTaxesNot SureRepeatsReportsGrainAppointmentsAttolia Author:Megan Whalen Turner