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“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing”
Jean Baptiste Colbert quotes (French Economist and Minister of Finance under King Louis XIV of France. 1619-1683)
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“The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.”
Andrew Jackson quotes (American 7th US President, 1767-1845)
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“Taxation without representation is tyranny”
James Otis quotes
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“The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor”
William Cobbett quotes (Pseudonym Peter Porcupine, English popular journalist, champion of traditional rural England against the Industrial Revolution, 1763-1835)
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“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 quotes (British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. 1874-1965)
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“An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance our budget, just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy quotes (American 35th US President (1961-63), 1917-1963)
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