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To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

— James Monroe

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Hillary Clinton

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

— James Otis

I think people have a legitimate right to minimise their tax obligations if they can, but they should pay their fair whack. I do think it's important to be transparent.

— Boris Johnson

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

— Herbert Spencer

It's a privilege to pay taxes. Yeah! It's not a political question, folks. We have to pay for stuff.

— Lewis Black

People think of taxes as money just being robbed from you. They don't consider the benefits of paying taxes. The benefits that they get and also the benefit of just being a part of a large group of people: a town, or a city, or a country, or a society that allegedly should stand together and all try to help each other.

— Michael Schur

Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law.

— Jon Oringer

At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.

— Meredith Whitney

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Terry Pratchett

Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.

— Auberon Herbert