Quotes About Taxation System

#1. The government is there day in and day out, if you want all kids to have education, if you want to run courts, if you want to have an army, if you want to have roads, you've got to have the taxation system that funds everything that you expect.

Bill Gates

#2. What I agree with is that we need a significantly changed taxation system. And the one that I've advocated is based on tithing, because I think God is a pretty fair guy. And he said, you know, if you give me a tithe, it doesn't matter how much you make.

Ben Carson

#3. Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

William Cobbett

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

Andrew Jackson

#5. The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.

James A. Garfield

#6. I've done Last Samurai in Japan, in LA, in New Zealand. Even in Japan it is very hard to shoot, because there's been so many changes. Only around a temple can we shoot.

Hiroyuki Sanada

#7. When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

Frederic Bastiat

#8. Memory changes as a person matures.

Siri Hustvedt

#9. There is no regular system of taxation, but when the Emperor or the Bashaw want money, they levy on some rich man, and he has to furnish the cash or go to prison. Therefore, few men in Morocco dare to be rich.

Mark Twain

#10. This is like dating. This is...weird.

Josh Lanyon

#11. God ... Becca." His voice was thick, low, rough. "How am I supposed to be able to breathe when you're so beautiful?

Jasinda Wilder

#12. I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.

Mary Pickford

#13. The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.

Ludwig Von Mises

#14. Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands.

Thomas Jefferson

#15. All the forms of double taxation in the current system are punitive and self-destructive because they are literally destroying people's incentive to provide that seed corn for future economic growth.

Daniel J. Mitchell

#16. I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.

Fitz-Greene Halleck

#17. Two things are essential for getting people to trust in the system: fair courts and equally fair taxation. Just these two." In

Yoshiki Tanaka

#18. Where a man's strength and courage is tested most is in the way that he treats women - the way that he loves.

John Eldredge

#19. If you're being tormented by guilt or feelings of failure in this area, confess your thoughts to God, pray about it, put it in God's hands, and then stand up and proclaim the truth!

Stormie O'martian

#20. Even if you assume that the whole economy would work better had we never had double taxation, having the envy and resentment of the richest paying low or no taxes screams of injustice. You have to have a fair system.

Charlie Munger

#21. An education system where student selection is based on credit capacity and not merit capacity and where graduating students are no longer indebted to the nation, but increasingly indebted to the Australian Taxation Office - that's no way to improve the quality of education.

Gough Whitlam

#22. Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

Emma Thompson

#23. It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field.

Joe Hockey

#24. I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses! Oh Lord! There is not getting away from one's self

Jane Austen

#25. In many ways, the system of government, taxation and military organization developed by the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was the envy of Western Europe.

Noel Malcolm

#26. Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do.
Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Mark Twain

#27. We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.

Adam Davidson

#28. The best way for the Government to maintain its credit is to pay as it goes-not by resorting to loans, but by keeping out of debt-through an adequate income secured by a system of taxation, external or internal, or both.

William McKinley

#29. Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not a mode of taxation. It is rather a mode of disguised expropriation of the successful capitalists and entrepreneurs.

Ludwig Von Mises

#30. The United States has a system of taxation by confession

Hugo Black