"My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury."
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"The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work."
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"My family achieved success not in spite of, but because of the American system of taxation. After all, without reliable and safe roads there’d have been no Disneyland; without high functioning legal systems and a well regulated business environment there would have been no copyright protection for Mickey Mouse."
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"Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old."
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"There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear."
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"What really gets me is this - it's very ironic that those who are most critical of extra tax are those who are most vociferous in demanding extra expenditure. What gets me even more is that having demanded that extra expenditure they are not prepared to face the consequences of their own action and stand by the necessity to get the tax to pay for it. I wish some of them had a bit more guts and courage than they have."
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"I will eliminate capital-gains taxes for the small businesses and the startups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow"
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"Close loopholes, close the special interest Washington carve outs and that means more incomes subject to taxation so we`re going to lower the rates on our businesses and be fair."
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"In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary."
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"Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America."
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"More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them."
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"The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation."
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"Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous."
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"Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own. The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."
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"It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods."
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"Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual."
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"Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory."
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"Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law."
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"Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes"
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"Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time. Although some taxation is necessary, all taxation diminishes freedom."
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