Taxation without representation is tyranny.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented.
If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.
When governments run on petro dollars or petro revenue instead of taxes, then they kind of sever the link between taxation and representation, and if you're not being taxed, then you're not being represented.
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves? We claim British rights not by charter only! We are born to them.
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.