Monday, March 17, 2014

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Quotations about Taxes



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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.  ~Will Rogers


When there's a single thief, it's robbery.  When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation.  ~Vanya Cohen


Taxation with representation ain't so hot either.  ~Gerald Barzan


The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.  ~Ronald Reagan


America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.  ~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.  ~Arthur Godfrey


The United States has a system of taxation by confession.  ~Hugo Black


Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?  ~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.  ~Will Rogers


Unquestionably, there is progress.  The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.  ~H.L. Mencken


The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.  ~William Simon


We must care for each other more, and tax each other less.  ~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.  ~Anne Robert Jacques Turgot


Be wary of strong drink.  It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.  ~Robert Heinlein


The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.  ~Jean Baptist Colbert, attributed


What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.  ~Thomas Paine


Did you ever notice that when you put the words "The" and "IRS" together, it spells "THEIRS?"  ~Author Unknown


Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed. ~Daniel Defoe,The Political History of the Devil, 1726


Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes. ~Benjamin Franklin, letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, 13 November 1789, translated from French


Another difference between death and taxes is that you don't have to work like fury to pay for the dying you did last year. ~Robert Quillen, "Oh, By the Way!"Gazette-Telegraph (Colorado), 15 April 1921


Another difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time the legislature meets. ~Robert Quillen, "Paragraphs," Lincoln Star(Nebraska), 6 April 1931


Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.  ~Herman Wouk

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