#taxation

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

— Mariano Rajoy

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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

But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration. ↗

— Steve King

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

— John Ruskin

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Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#just #menaces #money #sophisticated #taxation

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

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I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#simile #taxation #economics

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#sheep #taxation

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#before #found #had #means #merely

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

— Winston Churchill

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