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The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt cont...

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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they cre...

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The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, ...

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The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altoge...

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Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for ...

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Ha-Joon Chang23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of soc...

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Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach ...

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A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

For any ranked society, whether a chiefdom or a state, one thus has to ask, why do the commoners tol...

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An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond...

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

The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get ...

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They're so broke that they've actually cut essential services. In many places, they've cut policemen...

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The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life...The go...

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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

Corporations barely pay taxes. The corporate tax rate is already very low, but corporations have wor...

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Noam ChomskyImperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California t...

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The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

This is the history of governments, - one man does something which is to bind another. A man who can...

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Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly hal...

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

No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an...

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All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the U...

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Among the many other questions raised by the nebulous concept of “greed” is why it is a term applied...

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Thomas SowellThe Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

My brothers and sisters of America, there is not the least shadow of hope that India can ever be Chr...

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The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meet...

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The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as ...

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Adam SmithThe Wealth of Nations

They can't collect legal taxes from illegal money.

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for maki...

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A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the people disco...

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When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to rais...

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