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One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.

We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.

There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.

Taxes are way too complicated, and people spend way too much time worrying about ways to get them lower.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.