Tax thoughts

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.  

~George Bernard Shaw
  

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

~Robert A. Heinlein

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.
~James Madison

The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.
~John S. Coleman

Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay.
~Milton Friedman

There is no such thing as a good tax.
~Winston Churchill

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
~Benjamin Tucker

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
~Will Rogers

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
~Winston Churchill

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
~Calvin Coolidge

It would be a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their income.
~Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.
~Thomas Paine