"In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice."
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"The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression."
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"Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society."
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"Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four times as much by our Folly."
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"Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without."
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"Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world."
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"Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor."
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"Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange, Although he fleeced the flags of every nation, For into a prime minister but change His title, and 'tis nothing but taxation."
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"Taxation: how the sheep are shorn."
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"For every benefit you receive a tax is levied."
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"The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning."
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"Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free."
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"Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands."
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"I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day."
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"Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation? ... Today in our country the tax collector's share is 37 cents of every dollar earned. Freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp."
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"Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry."
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"Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people."
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"No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant."
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"All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people"
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"I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer."
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