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

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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. H. L. Mencken

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If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized. Lysander Spooner

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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

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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. Warren G. Harding

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I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices. Ulysses S. Grant

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

Inflation Without Imposed Legislation Form Taxation

Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, and that all church property shall bear its own proportion of taxation. Ulysses S. Grant

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What I agree with is that we need a significantly changed taxation system. And the one that I've advocated is based on tithing, because I think God is a pretty fair guy. And he said, you know, if you give me a tithe, it doesn't matter how much you make. Ben Carson

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Taxation: how the sheep are shorn. Edward Abbey

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

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We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary. Adam Davidson

Fight Simple System Over Very Tax Tax System Taxation Should Levels

The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike. Adam Davidson

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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. Andrew Jackson

When governments run on petro dollars or petro revenue instead of taxes, then they kind of sever the link between taxation and representation, and if you're not being taxed, then you're not being represented. Andrew Nikiforuk

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Confiscatory taxation enforced by threat of imprisonment is 'stealing,' a practice strongly frowned upon by our Creator. Ann Coulter

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Cyprus had developed its financial center over three decades ago by having double taxation treaties with a number of countries: the Soviet Union, for example. That means if profits are booked and earned and taxed in Cyprus, they are not taxed again in the other country. Athanasios Orphanides

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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. Cliff Stearns

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European pantywaists might keep voting for high-spending governments, but the U.S. was founded on a popular revolt against taxation. Daniel Hannan

Voting Governments Revolt Against Taxation Might European Popular Keep Founded

My parents both defected from communist Hungary and were what most people would today call libertarian. I grew up with a general distaste for taxation and any policy that intruded on our lives. David Harsanyi

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

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