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My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

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

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.

My legislation, the Simple Savings Tax Relief Act of 2005, simply eliminates the taxation of interest earned in savings accounts, such as passbook savings accounts or bank certificates of deposit.

Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.