Quotes about Taxation

The crime of taxation is not in the taking of it, it's in the way that it's spent.

He will take a tenth of your grain and grape harvest and give it to his officials and servants.

The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.

By justice a king brings stability to the land, but a man who exacts tribute demolishes it.

So Jehoiakim paid the silver and gold to Pharaoh Neco, but to meet Pharaoh’s demand he taxed the land and exacted the silver and the gold from the people, each according to his wealth.

The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers.

You can't tax business. Business doesn't pay taxes. It collects taxes.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves.

Now the men of Israel had been saying, “Do you see this man who keeps coming out to defy Israel? To the man who kills him the king will give great riches. And he will give him his daughter in marriage and exempt his father’s house from taxation in Israel.”

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush.