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Letter "T" » taxing
«Taxing less and spending more... it's fun in the short run, but it's a recipe for disaster»
«(And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) / And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.»
«After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also perished; and all, even as many as obeyed him, were dispersed.»
«Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Taxation
| Keywords:
add to, bungler, bunglers, compositions, contrive, projector, projectors, taxing
«No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.»
«Too much of a good thing can be taxing.»
«Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a ''taxing-machine';' to the contented, a ''machine for securing property'.' Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
active, appetite, balancing, constable, constables, contented, discontented, duties, emphatically, guided, keen, machine, No Quarter, parish, Parties, party man, quarter, securing, self government, self interest, taxing
«Sound principles will not justify our taxing the industry of our fellow citizens to accumulate treasure for wars to happen we know not when, and which might not perhaps happen but from the temptations offered by that treasure»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
accumulate, justify, offered, taxing, temptations, The Industry, The Temptations
«If government have a right of demanding ad libitum and of taxing us themselves to the full amount of their demand if we do not comply with it, this would leave us without anything we can call property»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
A.D., ad libitum, complies, comply, complying, demand, demanding, property right, property rights, taxing, to the full
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