Tax Morality Quotes

Among the many other questions raised by the nebulous concept of “greed” is why it is a term applied almost exclusively to those who want to earn more money or to keep what they have already earned—never to those wanting to take other people’s money in taxes or to those wishing to live on the largesse dispensed from such taxation. No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.

If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.

The avoidance of tax may be lawful, but it is not yet a virtue.

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

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

Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.

I am humbly following in your footsteps and having a row with the Government over the iniquity of the Marriage Tax in the form of supertax ... our incomes being added together we are liable for supertax which we are refusing to pay on the grounds of morality as I consider in a Christian country it is an immoral and outrageous act to tax me because I am living in Holy matrimony instead of as my husband's mistress.

I recognize that Republicans see a moral difference between a dollar taken away from a millionaire in government benefits and a dollar taken away from a millionaire in taxes.

There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.

To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.