Quotes on tax
I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it.
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Bob Thaves Quotes
Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
I am thankful for the taxes I pay because it means that I'm employed.
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Nancie J. Carmody Quotes
Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.
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F.J. Raymond Quotes
Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.
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Robert Half Quotes
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.
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Anne Robert Jacques Turgot Quotes
I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
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Author Unknown Quotes
To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
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Benjamin Tucker Quotes
Of course the truth is that the congresspersons are too busy raising campaign money to read the laws they pass. The laws are written by staff tax nerds who can put pretty much any wording they want in there. I bet that if you actually read the entire vastness of the U. S. Tax Code, you'd find at least one sex scene ("'Yes, yes, YES!' moaned Vanessa as Lance, his taut body moist with moisture, again and again depreciated her adjusted gross rate of annualized fiscal debenture").
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Dave Barry Quotes
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.
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Leon Panetta Quotes
The wages of sin are death, but after they take the taxes out, it's more like a tired feeling, really.
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Paula Poundstone Quotes
The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.
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John S. Coleman Quotes
Taxes grow without rain.
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Jewish Proverb Quotes
It was as true as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.
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Charles Dickens Quotes
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.
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Dave Barry Quotes
The United States has a system of taxation by confession.
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Hugo Black Quotes
I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.
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Mark Twain Quotes
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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H.L. Mencken Quotes
The payment of taxes gives a right to protection.
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James M. Wayne Quotes
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?
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Peg Bracken Quotes
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.
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Jean Baptist Colbert Quotes
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."
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Erwin N. Griswold Quotes
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.
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Martin D. Ginsburg Quotes
The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.
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William Simon Quotes
We must care for each other more, and tax each other less.
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Bill Archer Quotes
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.
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Ogden Nash Quotes
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.
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H.L. Mencken Quotes
Capital punishment: The income tax.
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Jeff Hayes Quotes
A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.
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Author Unknown Quotes
People who complain about taxes can be divided into two classes: men and women.
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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.
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Will Rogers Quotes
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.
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Will Rogers Quotes
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
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Laurence J. Peter Quotes
I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.
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Arthur Godfrey Quotes
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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Barry Goldwater Quotes
You don't pay taxes; they take taxes.
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Chris Rock Quotes
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.
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John Sherman Quotes
Taxes: Of life's two certainties, the only one for which you can get an automatic extension.
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Author Unknown Quotes