Tax quotes throughout history. Ronald Reagan, Mark Twain, Karl Marx etc


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Tax quotes throughout history

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In honor of all hard working Americans that are slowing turning into serfs. Here are some great quotes on taxes:

  • If it moves, tax it.
    If it keeps moving, regulate it.
    And if it stops moving, subsidize it.-Ronald Reagan
  • I 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
  • A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.-George Bernard Shaw
  • A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, a debt he proposes to pay off with your money.-G. Gordon Liddy
  • Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.-James Bovard
  • Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.-Frederic Bastiat
  • In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.-Voltaire
  • No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while Congress is in session.-Mark Twain
  • The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.-Ronald Reagan
  • The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.-Mark Twain
  • There is only one way to kill capitalism, taxes, taxes, and more taxes!!!!!Karl Marx
  • Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.Calvin Coolidge
  • The power to tax is the power to destroy.John Marshall
  • I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men’s rights.-Abraham Lincoln

     


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An apt Jefferson quote on taxes...

ddstrain (Diary) Thursday, April 9th at 7:42PM EST (link)

“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”

 

yes

thetexan (Diary) Thursday, April 9th at 8:39PM EST (link)

very true

 

A few more blasts from the past...

Diogenes314 (Diary) Friday, April 10th at 5:11PM EST (link)

“It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now … Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus.”

“Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased – not a reduced – flow of revenues to the federal government.”

– John F. Kennedy

“Abracadabra, thus we learn
The more you create, the less you earn.
The less you earn, the more you’re given,
The less you lead, the more you’re driven,
The more destroyed, the more they feed,
The more you pay, the more they need,
The more you earn, the less you keep,
And now I lay me down to sleep.
I pray the Lord my soul to take
If the tax-collector hasn’t got it before I wake.”

-Ogden Nash

“Tax the rich, feed the poor
Till there are no rich no more”

-The Democrats

(Of course by ‘rich’ they mean anyone with a non-government job.)