#taxation

I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them. If holy people are so interested in politics, government, and public policy, let them pay the price of admission like everybody else. The Catholic Church alone could wipe out the national debt if all you did was tax their real estate. ↗

— George Carlin

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I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum. ↗

— William Weld

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The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

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

— Rush Limbaugh

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Taxation without representation is tyranny. ↗

— James Otis

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We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws. ↗

— Mariano Rajoy

#confidence #create #cut #deficit #economic

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#authority #cannons #everywhere #further #greatest

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. ↗

— John Ruskin

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A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

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My legislation, the Simple Savings Tax Relief Act of 2005, simply eliminates the taxation of interest earned in savings accounts, such as passbook savings accounts or bank certificates of deposit. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

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