Quotes about Taxation

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

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.”

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.

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

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

The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state or in the nation, should be exempt from equal taxation; for if you exempt the property of any church organization, to that extent you impose a tax upon the whole community.

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

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

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.

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

Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.