We don't need to stifle our businesses with unnecessary bureaucracy and taxation.

As a result, fears over a significant near-term increase in personal or corporate taxation have virtually disappeared. Most expectations, including our own are for a broadly neutral stance.

[While the U.S. president has an e-mail address and favors preventing taxation of Internet commerce, the U.S. government has, in fact, hurt the industry by imposing] brain-dead legislation on privacy and the export of encryption, ... And outside of the U.S., I worry about taxation [of Internet commerce]. It's logical to assume that governments will want a piece of the action.

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

It's entirely consistent with taxation with representation.

It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it.