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#taxation

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #taxation




Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.


Arthur Laffer


#government #government spending #heard #himself #i

When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.


Henry Hazlitt


#inefficient #taxation #waste #wasting #business

Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rick as what they are -- a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.


Ha-Joon Chang


#economy #recession #social-justice #tax-cuts #taxation

As clear as it is important, the death of Detroit is nonetheless a topic avoided. Generally the gradual disintegration of a major metropolis would garner a fair amount of attention, but the scant coverage is hardly surprising. After all, the culprits are not the popular ones. In most circles, condemning taxation, regulation, unionization, welfarism and protectionism is unfashionable. It is necessary to cast aside prevailing notions of political correctness and appreciate that the case of Detroit isn’t an isolated tragedy.


Dan Greenup


#political-correctness #protectionism #regulations #taxation #unions

Free education, almost free healthcare, a generous benefits system and a better state pension than elsewhere, guarantee equal opportunities for all citizens. The only problem is that all these require a considerable amount of public revenue. This is why the common assertion that to be born in Finland is like winning the jackpot in the lottery is only applicable when you are at the receiving end. A far more common experience is that you need to win the lottery just to cover the tax bill.


Tarja Moles


#taxation #welfare #welfare-state #education

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.


Winston Churchill


#rich #taxation #poor

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.


William Cobbett


#create #give #labor #persons #produce

Inflation is taxation without legislation.


Milton Friedman


#inflation #legislation #taxation #without

I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's a form of taxation without representation. I don't think we can do that.


Mike Lee


#again #against #ceiling #debt #debt ceiling

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.


Rush Limbaugh


#how #jefferson #representation #see #should






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