Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.
I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.
Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
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