Governments are like primitive cannibals feasting on a great treasure trove of sheeple. You can't force them out, and you can't vote them out. But you can sure as hell starve them out. When enough people pick up and leave, essentially voting with their feet, it accelerates the system crash.
- Simon Black - Topics: Tax, Government.
Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other. If government spending is financed by borrowing from the commercial banks, it means credit expansion and inflation.
- Ludwig von Mises - Topics: Debt, Government, Monetary Policy, Tax.
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
- Will Rogers - Topics: Tax, Government.
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
- Ronald Reagan - Topics: Tax, Government.
All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working or investment?
- Lawrence Summers - Topics: Tax.
Taxation is theft, purely and simply.
- Murray N. Rothbard - Topics: Tax.
They tell us that the government can spend and spend without taxing at all, that it can continue to pile up debt without ever paying it off, because "we owe it to ourselves". Such pleasant dreams in the past have always been shattered by national insolvency or a runaway inflation. All government expenditures must eventually be paid out of the proceeds of taxation and inflation itself is merely a form, and a particularly vicious form, of taxation.
- Henry Hazlitt - Topics: Government, Inflation, Tax.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it.
One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.
- Ron Paul - Topics: Tax, Government.
Some experts have declared that it is necessary to tax the people until it hurts. I disagree with these sadists.
- Ludwig von Mises - Topics: Tax.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax.
- Albert Einstein - Topics: Tax, Government.
Socialism works fine until you run out of someone else's money.
- Margaret Thatcher - Topics: Government, Socialism, Tax.
