We 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 S. ChurchillTags: taxes
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
John MarshallIncome tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Herman WoukTags: on-fiction fiction income-tax taxes taxing
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the people discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the canidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy--to be followed by a dictatorship.
Alexander Fraser TytlerTags: freedom law taxes welfare
I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.Tags: civilization taxes
One who does a thing in order to avoid a monetary penalty does not agree; he yields to compulsion precisely the same as though he did so to avoid a term in jail."
[Justice George Sutherland, in the majority opinion for the Carter Coal case]
Let your voice be heard, whether or not it is to the taste of every
jack-in-office who may be obstructing the traffic. By all means, render unto
Caesar that which is Caesar's -- but this does not necessarily include
everything that he says is his.
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas JeffersonTags: ideas government taxes
Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.
Margaret MitchellTags: humor truth death taxes childbirth
A penny saved is worth two pennies earned . . . after taxes.
Randy ThurmanTags: money budgeting taxes savings
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