#taxation

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws. ↗

— Mariano Rajoy

#confidence #create #cut #deficit #economic

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. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#authority #cannons #everywhere #further #greatest

In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#being #government #land #laws #namely

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

— Steve King

#need #people #quit #respiration #taxation

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. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#anyway #candidate #commit #cook #going

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

— Terry Pratchett

#just #menaces #money #sophisticated #taxation

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. ↗

— Edmund Barton

#bear #burden #duty #educate #education

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. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#declare #diminishing #england #establishments #falls

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. ↗

— Mark Skousen

#centrally #civilized #civilized society #civilized world #complete

Pah…commoners, traders." Ergus made a disparaging gesture. Traders with money, Ergus. Money they put at the disposition of young Tanahkos," Lmachdan said in a dry tone. "Money that turns into soldiers. Soldiers who are used to extort tribute from us. Tribute that is turned into more soldiers. The warlord has a good thing going, I'll say that for him. ↗

— Andrew Ashling

#greed #nobles #paying-taxes #power #rich-men