Milton Friedman Quotes About Taxes
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You could not possibly maintain the current level of government taxation without the taxes being hidden, and they are hidden in two very different ways. They are hidden through withholding, but they are also hidden by being imposed on business, supposedly on business, when really, of course, business can't pay taxes, only people can pay taxes.
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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Politicians will always spend every penny of tax raised and whatever else they can get away with.
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The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.
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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.
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Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay
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Undoubtedly Internet has reduced the possibilities of taxation. Why should I buy something here if I can buy it from a company in Japan or England or Brazil with a lower tax?
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Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
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If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.
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[T]he burden of government is not measured by how much it taxes, but by how much it spends.
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Business corporations in general are not defenders of free enterprise. On the contrary, they are one of the chief sources of danger....Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. We have to have that tariff to protect us against competition from abroad. We have to have that special provision in the tax code. We have to have that subsidy.
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I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ... because I believe the big problem is not taxes, the big problem is spending.
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Whenever you try to do good with someone else's money, you are committed to using force. How can you do good with somebody else's money, unless you first take it away from them? The only way you can take it away from them is the threat of force: you have a policeman, tax collector, who comes and takes it from them.
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Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
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Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
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What works for Sweden wouldn't work for France or Germany or Italy. In a small state, you can reach outside for many of your activities. In a homogeneous culture, they are willing to pay higher taxes in order to achieve commonly held goals. But "common goals" are much harder to come by in larger, more heterogeneous populations.
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If the US government spends 40 percent of the nation's income, as it does through either borrowing or taxes, that income is not available for people to spend. The deficit is an indirect method of taxation. Of course, politicians prefer to borrow instead of tax because then someone down the road has to deal with the consequences.
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The long-range sloution to high unemployment is to increase the incentive for ordinary people to save, invest, work, and employ others. We make it costly for employers to employ people; we subsidize people not to go to work We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.
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