The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
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Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked the woman what here sorrow was, and she replied, We are a family of hunters. My father was eaten by a tiger. My husband was bitten by a tiger and died. And now my only son! Why don't you move down and live in the valley? Why do you continue to live up here? asked Confucius. And the woman replied, But sir, there are no tax collectors here! Confucius added to his disciples, You see, a bad government is more to be feared than tigers.
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Indoors or out, no one relaxes In March, that month of wind and taxes, The wind will presently disappear, The taxes last us all year.
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Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation? by
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The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
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The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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Anyone may so arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible. He is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes.
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It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that excessive revenues are obtained. Monarchy is well calculated to ensure this end. It is the popery of government; a thing kept up to amuse the ignorant, and quiet them into taxes.
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The officers of Congress, may come upon you now, fortified with all the terrors of paramount federal authority. Excisemen taxmen may come in multitudes; for the limitation of their numbers no man knows. They may, unless the general government be restrained ... go into your cellars and rooms, and search, ransack, and measure, everything you eat, drink, and wear.
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It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. The funds that a government spends for whatever purposes are levied by taxation. And taxes are paid because the taxpayers are afraid of offering resistance to the tax gatherers. They know that any disobedience or resistance is hopeless. As long as this is the state of affairs, the government is able to collect the money that it wants to spend. Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen. The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, and give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; And the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they do now, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains around the necks of our fellow sufferers; And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on 'til the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering ... And the forehorse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.
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Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.
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The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages capital accumulation and distorts, unbalances, and shrinks production. Total real wealth and income is made smaller than it would otherwise be. On net balance there is more poverty rather than less.
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It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
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The tax collector must love poor people. He is creating so many of them.
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The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.
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Taxation without representation is tyranny.
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In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
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I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as proud for half the money.
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America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation
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The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
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If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.
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Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist -- the taxidermist leaves the hide.
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There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program -- your tax-dollar will go further.
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Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either.
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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
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