Quotes About Excessive Taxation

#1. Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rich as what they are
a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.

Ha-Joon Chang

#2. Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

W. H. Auden

#3. Excessive taxation ... will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. I kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself.

Clint Eastwood

#5. Deal with it before it happens. Set things in order before there is confusion.

Laozi

#6. No one was more surprised than me when my paintings started selling, except maybe my dealer.

Chuck Close

#7. It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#8. A book?" he asked. "Yeah, remember before television and computers we used to do this thing called reading?

Janet Evanovich

#9. Some doomsayers think the collapse will be triggered by runaway government spending, excessive taxation, oppressive regulation, food shortages, fuel shortages or natural disasters such as deadly pandemics or lethal changes in the world's climate.

Robert Higgs

#10. Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.

Rick Perry

#11. There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.

Calvin Coolidge

#12. Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.

Ronald Reagan

#13. The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.

Charles A. Murray