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Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.

I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.

No taxation without respiration.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.

This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair.

It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.

The level of taxation is driven by spending. Less spending leads to lower taxes.

We ought, therefore, to lessen the price of food to our manufacturers, and place them more on a level with the manufacturers who have cheaper food, and also much lighter taxation.

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

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.

Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed America is capable of great things and its people could and would lead the way if left unburdened by taxation and regulation.

But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.