Quotes for All
No government can provide social security. It is not in the nature of government to be able to provide anything. Government itself is not self-supporting. It lives by taxation. Therefore, since it cannot provide for itself but by taking toll of what the people produce, how can it provide social security for the people? Garet … Read more
The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world. Eric Pianka
By the end of the Twentieth Century, taxation will be reduced to a minimum, the entire world will be open to trade, and there will be no need of a standing army. Erastus Wiman
If all those magnificent cathedrals with their valuable lands in Boston, Philadelphia and New York were taxed as they should be, the taxes of women who hold property would be proportionately lightened….I cannot see any good reason why wealthy churches and a certain amount of property of the clergy should be exempt from taxation, while … Read more
Taxation: how the sheep are shorn. Edward Abbey
Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America. Edmund Burke
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. Edmund Burke
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. Edmund Burke
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
It is an absurd fiction that the churches are useful. They are nothing more than propaganda centers for superstitious faiths and doctrines. Church members have a right to believe in and propagate their various doctrines. But they should pay every item of the cost, of this propaganda, including fair taxation for all church property. E. … Read more