#taxation

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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


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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


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


Winston Churchill


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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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