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Source: The Federalist Papers (Including Declaration of Independence & United States Constitution): Written by the Founding Fathers in Favor of the Constitution – Arguments that Created the Modern America

“Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.”

Facts Government Difficult Citizens Function Taxation

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence

“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.”

Law Congress Burden Operations Taxation Retard Constitutional Law

Book:John Marshall's Defense of McCulloch V. Maryland

Source: John Marshall's Defense of McCulloch V. Maryland

“The best way for the Government to maintain its credit is to pay as it goes-not by resorting to loans, but by keeping out of debt-through an adequate income secured by a system of taxation, external or internal, or both.”

Way Government Pay Credit Debt Income Best Way Internals Taxation Adequate Loan Secured

Book:A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents

Source: A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents

“I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.”

Lasts Church Property Corporations Taxation Restriction Edifice

Author:Ulysses S. Grant

“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.”

Running Chance Gay Marijuana Platforms Taxation New Orleans Gay Marriage Mayors

Author:Brad Pitt

“Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor.”

Liberty Labor Libertarian Earning Taxation

Book:Anarchy, state, and utopia

Source: Anarchy, state, and utopia

“No government can provide social security. It is not in the nature of government to be able to provide anything. Government itself is not self-supporting. It lives by taxation. Therefore, since it cannot provide for itself but by taking toll of what the people produce, how can it provide social security for the people?”

People Self Government Able Social Security Produce Live By Social Security Taxation Tolls

Author:Garet Garrett

“The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.”

Greed Envy Taxation Insatiable Appease

Book:How you can find happiness during the collapse of Western civilization

Source: How you can find happiness during the collapse of Western civilization

“Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.”

Form Values Effects Property Regulation Taxation Private Property Servitude

Book:Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

Source: Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

“Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.”

Persons Government Institutions Taxation Revenue Coercion

Author:Murray Rothbard

“Printing money is merely taxation in another form.”

Form Taxation Printing Printing Money

Author:Peter Schiff

“The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.”

States Used Enemy Support Dangerous Property Welfare Taxation Private Property Welfare State

Author:Charles A. Murray

“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.”

Names Successful Taxes Entrepreneur Accepted Income Progressive Capitalist Taxation Inheritance Mislead Progressive Taxation

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“If the present American laws concerning the taxation of the profits of corporations, the incomes of individuals, and inheritances had been introduced about 60 years ago, all those new products whose consumption has raised the standard of living of the 'common man' would either not be produced at all or only in small quantities for the benefit of a minority. The Ford enterprises would not exist if Henry Ford's profits had been taxed away as soon as they came into being.”

“The rates of taxation climb and the levels of capital decline, until the only remaining wealth beyond the reach of the regime is the very protein of human flesh, and that too is finally taxed, bound, and gagged, and brought to the colossal temple of the state - a final sacrifice of carnal revenue to feed the declining elite.”

Humans States Wealth Levels Sacrifice Finals Rate Bounds Flesh Climbs Temples Regimes Elites Decline Taxation Revenue Protein Colossal

Book:Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century

Source: Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century

“Only dramatic cuts in the federal deficit, a rollback of regulations that cripple small and community banks, a cancellation of future tax increase plans, a big reduction in federal spending, repeal of Obamacare, freeing manufacturing from the prospect of carbon taxation and unleashing out domestic energy potential can solve our problems. But Obama is not about to undo his legacy of disaster for the American people.”

“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.”

People Self Form Growth Economic Currents Seeds Destructive Destroying Taxation Incentives Corn Economic Growth Self Destructive

Author:Daniel J. Mitchell

“To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.”

“Peace and prosperity are inversely proportional to the level of taxation.”

Levels Prosperity Taxation

Author:John Pugsley

“The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything, because it amounts to nothing less than outright extortion, a gross violation of human liberty.”

Humans Liberty Amount Method Institutions Fund Civilized Taxation Gross Violation Barbaric

Author:Tibor R. Machan

“Never forget that no government has wealth of its own to spend. The money has to come from taxation, monetary inflation, or debt expansion that must be paid later. And government's spending choices will always be uneconomic relative to how society would use that wealth. That is to say, the money will be wasted.”

Use Government Choices Wealth Forget Paid Debt Spending Never Forget Relative Expansion Taxation Inflation Monetary

Author:Llewellyn Rockwell

“The better an entrepreneur succeeds, the more is he vilified and themore is he soaked by taxation.”

Succeed Entrepreneur Taxation

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.”

Wells Has Beens Philosophy Realizing Wealth Class Greater Failing Taxes Rate Saved Income Progressive Taxation Consumed Income Tax Progressive Taxation

Book:Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism

Source: Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism

“Highly graduate taxation realizes most completely the supreme danger of democracy, creating a state of things in which one class imposes on another burdens which it is not asked to share, and impels the State into vast schemes of extravagance, under the belief that the whole costs will be thrown upon others.”

States Whole Belief Realizing Class Democracy Share Danger Cost Creating Burden Supreme Thrown Graduates Schemes Taxation Extravagance

Author:William Edward Hartpole Lecky

“Even if you assume that the whole economy would work better had we never had double taxation, having the envy and resentment of the richest paying low or no taxes screams of injustice. You have to have a fair system.”

Ifs Whole Economy Taxes Lows Fairs Assuming Injustice Envy Scream Resentment Taxation

Author:Charlie Munger

“It is an absurd fiction that the churches are useful. They are nothing more than propaganda centers for superstitious faiths and doctrines. Church members have a right to believe in and propagate their various doctrines. But they should pay every item of the cost, of this propaganda, including fair taxation for all church property.”

Should Believe Church Pay Fiction Cost Members Fairs Property Including Various Doctrine Absurd Propaganda Taxation Items Superstitious Church Members

Author:E. Haldeman-Julius

“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.”

Form Economy Dangerous Elements Operations Destructive Taxation Inflation Benign

Author:Robert Higgs

“Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.”

Ifs Needs Humans Problem Care Economy Growing Development Periods Areas India Right Thing No Problem Taxation Doing The Right Thing Human Development Growing Economy

Author:Bill Gates

“What really gets me is this - it's very ironic that those who are most critical of extra tax are those who are most vociferous in demanding extra expenditure. What gets me even more is that having demanded that extra expenditure they are not prepared to face the consequences of their own action and stand by the necessity to get the tax to pay for it. I wish some of them had a bit more guts and courage than they have.”

Action Faces Wish Bits Pay Taxes Consequence Prepared Critical Extras Guts Ironic Taxation Expenditures

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.”

Higher Politician Promise Paid Election Taxation Borrowing Election Time Politicians Promises

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.”

Industry Taxes Aim Taxation Collecting

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax.”

Wealth Taxes Sufficient Justify Taxation Revenue

Author:Dick Spring

“Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.”

Used Pay Employee Taxation Rice

Author:Walter Wriston

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