Taxes Quotes
"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."
- Taxes Quotes by Will Rogers
"When there's a single thief, it's robbery." When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation."
- Taxes Quotes by Vanya Cohen
"Taxation with representation ain't so hot either."
- Taxes Quotes by Gerald Barzan
"Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society."
- Taxes Quotes by Franklin D." Roosevelt
"The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."
- Taxes Quotes by Ronald Reagan
"America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation."
- Taxes Quotes by Laurence J." Peter
"I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money."
- Taxes Quotes by Arthur Godfrey
"The United States has a system of taxation by confession."
- Taxes Quotes by Hugo Black
"Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?"
- Taxes Quotes by Peg Bracken
"The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has." Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr."
- Taxes Quotes by Will Rogers
"Unquestionably, there is progress." The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."
- Taxes Quotes by H.L. Mencken
"The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose."
- Taxes Quotes by William Simon
"We must care for each other more, and tax each other less."
- Taxes Quotes by Bill Archer
"The expenses of government, having for their object the interest of all, should be borne by everyone, and the more a man enjoys the advantages of society, the more he ought to hold himself honored in contributing to those expenses."
- Taxes Quotes by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
"Be wary of strong drink." It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss."
- Taxes Quotes by Robert Heinlein
"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing."
- Taxes Quotes by Jean Baptist Colber
"What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue."
- Taxes Quotes by Thomas Paine
"Did you ever notice that when you put the words "The" and "IRS" together, it spells "THEIRS?"
- Taxes Quotes by Author Unknown
"We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two. At least," as one man said, there's one advantage about death; it doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.""
- Taxes Quotes by Erwin N." Griswold
"Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today."
- Taxes Quotes by Herman Wouk
"Capital punishment: The income tax."
- Taxes Quotes by Jeff Hayes
"If the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, how he must hate the taxpayer!"
- Taxes Quotes by John Andrew Holmes
"People who complain about taxes can be divided into two classes: men and women."
- Taxes Quotes by Author Unknown
"Taxes: Of life's two certainties, the only one for which you can get an automatic extension."
- Taxes Quotes by Author Unknown
"Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year."
- Taxes Quotes by Ogden Nash
"It's income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and stab yourself in the aorta."
- Taxes Quotes by Dave Barry
"Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: animals have instincts, we have taxes."
- Taxes Quotes by Erving Goffman
"The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility." Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ."
- Taxes Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
"To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury."
- Taxes Quotes by Benjamin Tucker
"Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income."
- Taxes Quotes by Alfred E. Neuman
"A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it."
- Taxes Quotes by Author Unknown
"Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors."
- Taxes Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt
"I am thankful for the taxes I pay because it means that I'm employed."
- Taxes Quotes by Nancie J." Carmody
"The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away."
- Taxes Quotes by John S. Coleman
"Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either."
- Taxes Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin
"It was as true. as taxes is." And nothing's truer than them."
- Taxes Quotes by Charles Dickens
"Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn't be related."
- Taxes Quotes by J.C. Watts, Jr.
"The best things in life are free, but sooner or later the government will find a way to tax them."
- Taxes Quotes by Author Unknown
"The government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
- Taxes Quotes by Ronald Reagan
"I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization."
- Taxes Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr
"I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes."
- Taxes Quotes by Mark Twain
"Our tax code is so long it makes War and Peace seem breezy."
- Taxes Quotes by Steven LaTourette
"The wages of sin are death, but after they take the taxes out, it's more like a tired feeling, really."
- Taxes Quotes by Paula Poundstone
"We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax." I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it."
- Taxes Quotes by John Sherman
"You must pay taxes." But there's no law that says you gotta leave a tip."
- Taxes Quotes by Morgan Stanley advertisement
"U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James."
- Taxes Quotes by Robert Brault
"Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund."
- Taxes Quotes by F.J Raymond
"There's nothing wrong with the younger generation that becoming taxpayers won't cure."
- Taxes Quotes by Dan Bennett
"Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?"
Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.""
- Taxes Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
"There may be liberty and justice for all, but there are tax breaks only for some."
- Taxes Quotes by Martin A." Sullivan
"The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government."
- Taxes Quotes by Barry Goldwater
"Taxes grow without rain."
- Taxes Quotes by Jewish Proverb
"I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it."
- Taxes Quotes by Bob Thaves
" Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government."
- Taxes Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes."
- Taxes Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card." A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here."
- Taxes Quotes by Steve Forbes
"A fine is a tax for doing something wrong. A tax is a fine for doing something right."
- Taxes Quotes by Author Unknown
"Count the day won when, turning on its axis,
This earth imposes no additional taxes."
- Taxes Quotes by Franklin P." Adams
"Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as much drama in it; moreover, it has been mellowed and made gay by as many gaudy, preposterous theories."
- Taxes Quotes by H.L. Mencken
"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."
- Taxes Quotes by Calvin Coolidge
"It's about ten times the size of the Bible - and unlike the Bible, contains no good news."
- Taxes Quotes by Don Nickles
"The payment of taxes gives a right to protection."
- Taxes Quotes by James M. Wayne
"If we don't do something to simplify the tax system, we're going to end up with a national police force of internal revenue agents."
- Taxes Quotes by Leon Panetta
"What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector ? The taxidermist takes only your skin."
- Taxes Quotes by Mark Twain
"The sales tax seems to be more politically acceptable than the income tax."
- Taxes Quotes by Raymond C. Scheppach
"There is an ancient belief that the gods love the obscure and hate the obvious." Without benefit of divinity, modern men of similar persuasion draft provisions of the Internal Revenue Code." Section 341 is their triumph."
- Taxes Quotes by Martin D. Ginsburg
"All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says."
- Taxes Quotes by Walter B. Wriston
"The politicians say we can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians."
- Taxes Quotes by Steve Forbes
"The more you earn, the less you keep,
And now I lay me down to sleep.
I pray the Lord my soul to take,
If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake."
- Taxes Quotes by Ogden Nash
"Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with."
- Taxes Quotes by Author unknown
"You don't pay taxes - they take taxes."
- Taxes Quotes by Chris Rock
"People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income."
- Taxes Quotes by Robert Half
"Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax."
- Taxes Quotes by Max Baucus
"I can give you 1040 good reasons why I hate the government."
- Taxes Quotes by The Quote Garden
