Quotes about Taxation
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
- Adrian Rogers
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
- Ronald Reagan
You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.
- Calvin Coolidge
The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution
- Ronald Reagan
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
- Ronald Reagan
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
- Adrian Rogers
Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.
- Barack Obama
It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.
- Thomas Paine
I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.
- Mark Twain
After Independence, there were periods of very high taxation. So you didn't create wealth, how will you distribute it? When was the first time capital gains tax was introduced? It was 1992 March. Till then, everything was taxed one way.
- Shiv Nadar
Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.
- Will Rogers
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
- Ronald Reagan