Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.
I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.
We're being taxed to blow up bridges in Iraq and rebuild them, while ours at home are falling down
The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.
I believe capital gains, for the most part, should be taxed the same way we tax income from hard work, sweat, and toil. And if we do those things, we can be a country that actually can afford debt-free college again.
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
We're the highest taxed in the world, we're the highest taxed country right now, and it's not even close.
Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator.
Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
Born free. Taxed to death.
I used to get taxed on my allowance. Yeah, I've been taxed since I was a little kid. And at the end of the year I had to pick a charity to donate my taxes to.
No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.
I'd like somebody to get rid of the death tax. That's what I want. I don't want to get taxed just because I died. I just don't think it's right. If I give something to my kid, I already paid the tax. Why should I have to pay it again because I died?
Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem. . . . Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it. . . . The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
Be checked for silence, But never taxed for speech.
No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.
