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A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work.

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

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

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

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.

A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.

You know what isn't class warfare? Progressive taxation, as in, say, expecting billionaires to pay at least as much in taxes as their secretaries. Ideally, in fact, they should pay more.

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

We cannot tax the same people we expect to create jobs. That is a recipe for keeping people out of work.