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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

No taxation without respiration.

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

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.

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

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.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

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

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.

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

We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.

A great deal has been said about my commitment not to raise taxes. It's a core value - it's common sense - it's important to keeping and growing jobs - and it's mainstream!

Texans should not be taxed on our taxes.

I come from Cuba. Taxes for me are no big thing.

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.

Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes.

The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.