Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

- Milton Friedman

The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and '20s.

- Thomas Piketty

What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.

- Thomas Piketty

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

- Terry Pratchett

Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.

- Samuel Freeman Miller

But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.

- Steve King

Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.

- Rick Perry

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

- Rush Limbaugh

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

- Merton Miller

Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!

- Malcolm Turnbull

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.

- Andrew Nikiforuk

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

- Milton Friedman

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

- Laurence J. Peter

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

- James Otis

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

- Fletcher Knebel

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

- Edward Abbey

This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair.

- Doc Hastings

We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.

- Douglas Alexander

By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them.

- Charles Kennedy

It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.

- Auberon Herbert