#taxation

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

— Fletcher Knebel

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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

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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. ↗

— Charles Adams

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

— Auberon Herbert

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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. ↗

— William L. Jenkins

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