The power to tax is the power to destroy. A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny.
– Calvin Coolidge
Many others here.
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Calvin Coolidge has a decent claim to be the USA’s worst twentieth century president, and yes, I know that the competition for that accolade is stiff.
I prefer a more English quotation myself:
"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
– Sir Winston Churchill
Though I myself would contend that it is more like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by drilling a hole beneath his feet…