Sentence examples for taxation argument from inspiring English sources

Supporters of the bill, moreover, make a multiple taxation argument: Buy a sweater in Texas and, as the transaction goes through routers and servers in other states, it could pick up taxes all along the way which is grossly unfair.

That puts a hefty dent in the "double taxation" argument.

The familiar "no taxation without representation" argument, along with the question of the extent of Parliament's authority in the colonies, remained prominent.

There is another reason summer residents may not wish to push their taxation-without-representation argument too far: the right to vote, in New York, as in the rest of the country, is based not on paying taxes but on being a citizen.

Federal energy legislation to protect our nation and our planet from catastrophic climate change has been stymied by business and ideological interests who invoke economic liberty and freedom from taxation; similar libertarian arguments are thrown up against proposals to address growing income inequality.

But I was fired up by criticism of the poll tax, the argument that asking a millionaire to pay the same council charge as his cook was a reactionary act by Mrs Thatcher – a reversal of decades of progressive taxation.

The moral argument against taxation has the virtue of being impervious to such trivial considerations.

As the United States shifts to fighting wars with precision weapons and a relatively small volunteer Army, the argument that taxation of the rich is necessary in wartime to ensure equal sacrifice will no longer be convincing.

Faced with calls from the right to upend the Affordable Care Act, a decision that would have caused a great uproar, the Chief Justice came up with an obscure argument about taxation that few people had hitherto considered, in support of a five-to-four ruling that President Obama's health-care reform, or most of it, was constitutional.

Probably around 1980, I asked Nozick whether he had envisioned anything like this public goods argument for taxation in connection with the liability rule attenuation of rights.

The argument for taxation and welfare spending can in fact be made using the very notion of freedom to which the classical liberal critic appeals.