“Everything has a tax, and the tax for the bodies is recommended fasting.”
Musa al-Kadhim (745–799) Seventh of the Twelve Imams and regarded by Sunnis as a renowned scholar
Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 425.
Religious Wisdom
Eighth Infallible Sayings: Golden sayings of Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq (AS) http://www.ezsoftech.com/islamic/infallible8.asp <br class="br">Regarding Knowledge & Wisdom, General
“Everything has a tax, and the tax for the bodies is recommended fasting.”
Musa al-Kadhim (745–799) Seventh of the Twelve Imams and regarded by Sunnis as a renowned scholar
Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 425.
Religious Wisdom
“There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.”
Frank Chodorov (1887–1966) American libertarian thinker
“Taxation is Robbery,” Chicago: Human Events Associates (1947) https://mises.org/library/taxation-robbery
Benjamin Franklin book Poor Richard's Almanack
Poor Richard's Almanack (1758), “The Way to Wealth”
Poor Richard's Almanack
Francis Escudero (1969) Filipino politician
Interaksyon http://www.interaksyon.com/article/48379/chiz-asks-imf-chief-not-to-meddle-in-ph-affairs-slams-proposal-to-tax-text <br class="br">2012
Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
Source: Resist Not Evil (1904), p. 27
Todd Akin (1947) American politician
Washington Minute, CSPAN, , quoted in * 2011-03-19
GOP Rep. Todd Akin On Social Security: ‘I Don’t Like It’
Alex
Seitz-Wald
Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/03/19/151641/todd-akin-i-dont-like-social-security/
“We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.”
Leona Helmsley (1920–2007) American hotel owner
Quoted in New York Times (July 12, 1989)
Quoted in Newsweek magazine, p. 11 (July 24, 1989)
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
This isn't some giveaway to people who are on welfare. This is giving help to people who are working hard every day. <br class="br"> Remarks at a a rally in Lake Worth, Florida (21 October 2008) http://www-tc.pbs.org/newshour/rss/media/2008/10/21/20081021_wrap.mp3 <br class="br">2008
Harvey S. Rosen (1949) American economist
Source: Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition, Chapter 15, The Personal Income Tax, p. 342