Quotes
Quotes about Tax
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
There is no such thing as government money, only taxpayer money.
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Death and taxes are both certain... but death isn't annual.
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.
Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out.
Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either.
Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right he'll go to the poor house.
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax.
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing isâI could be just as proud for half the money.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
Only little people pay taxes.
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes...
Only the little people pay taxes.
The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.
Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'.
The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents.
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.
The more productive people are, the more governments can tax and confiscate. So the more productive people are, the more costly it is for governments to kill them. Evidence indicates that governments respond to this economic incentive.
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.
