The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you raise taxes on something, you discourage that activity.
Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.
Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.
There is nothing more rewarding than winning when you're looked at as not being capable of doing so.
What I don't want to become numb to is wasting those taxpayer dollars.
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.
The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.