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High Taxes Quotes
Who pays, and what it buys.
These quotes argue both sides of the tax debate, from praise of free schools funded by higher rates to frustration with policies that get in families' way. For more on political divides, see Bad Government quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's good to pay high taxes - you have free schools, free universities. It's a much more decent society than those where everybody pays their own way, and some people don't get anything.
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The traditional divide between left and right, capital and labor, small state and big state, high taxes and low taxes doesn't define politics in the way it did in the past.
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Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the problem with very high taxes - they don't redistribute wealth; they redistribute people.
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- Nov 07, 2020