Friday's Tax Quote - July 29, 2011

“And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.”

- New Testament

Friday's Tax Quote - July 22, 2011

“[T]o tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”

- Edmund Burke

Friday's Tax Quote - July 15, 2011

“Trade being a sensitive plant, a direct tax upon it to some extent at least deters trade even if its effect is not precisely calculable”

- Felix Frankfurter

Friday's Tax Quote - July 8, 2011

“The law of taxation is more concerned with the substance of economic opportunity than with classifying legal concepts, and tagging them with names and labels.”

- Benjamin N. Cardozo

Friday's Tax Quote - July 1, 2011

“There are some taxes that are good for our economy, because they discourage harmful activities.”

- David M. Roodman