Taxation Quotes

We British weren't all horrible monsters, there was some justification in asking for taxation from the colonies.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.

We don't need to stifle our businesses with unnecessary bureaucracy and taxation.

When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare and health and deteriorating roads, into the commander-in-chief. And it's just become almost unpatriotic to describe Bush's fallacious and ill-advised and mistaken and sometimes misleading actions.

Turning the Internet over to countries with problematic human-rights records, muted free-speech laws, and questionable taxation practices will prevent the Internet from remaining the thriving medium it has become today.

A national sales tax penalizes the poor. My system eliminates all standards of taxation.

Our ambition is to come up with a better taxation system than that of the outgoing government.

It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it.

Our employer sector does not need additional taxation, and the promise of health insurance for everyone does not require new tax revenue, ... I don't want at this point to be issuing ultimatums. I think people know where I stand on taxes however.

If you want to compete on a national scale, the Empire Zone basically takes away the problem of high taxation in New York. I think the hope that everyone has with the program, which lasts for 10 to 15 years, is that New York will continue the trend of lowering its taxes so we won't need Empire Zones in the future.

Time is ripe for arbitration. It took a long time to convince tax authorities that double taxation should be eliminated under tax treaties in all cases.

There are alcoholic beverages at different levels of price, and when you implement taxation, what happens is that the individuals who are able to purchase the alcoholic beverages that were more expensive just switch to less expensive ones.

We demand the foreign national involved in such a marriage application be required to present his taxation documents or assets evaluation papers, to prove that he has a normal income sufficient for supporting a normal marriage life.

Fair taxation, that's the issue here. Anyone who puts any other kind of gloss on it is not reflecting the true state of affairs.

Here we go again pushing the burden of taxation on the backs of the homeowners and the senior citizens.

Ecuador is a tough economic jurisdiction. There has been recurring issues regarding taxation and government take.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

No taxation without respiration.

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair.