Quotes on tax
I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it.
Thaves, Bob
Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
I am thankful for the taxes I pay because it means that I'm employed.
Carmody, Nancie J.
Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.
Raymond, F.J.
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.
Turgot, Anne Robert Jacques
The wages of sin are death, but after they take the taxes out, it's more like a tired feeling, really.
Poundstone, Paula
The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.
Coleman, John S.
Taxes grow without rain.
Proverb, Jewish
I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.
Twain, Mark
The payment of taxes gives a right to protection.
Wayne, James M.
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?
Bracken, Peg
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.
Colbert, Jean Baptist
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."
Griswold, Erwin N.
The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.
Simon, William
We must care for each other more, and tax each other less.
Archer, Bill
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.
Mencken, H.L.
Capital punishment: The income tax.
Hayes, Jeff
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.
Rogers, Will
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
Peter, Laurence J.
You don't pay taxes; they take taxes.
Rock, Chris
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.
Sherman, John