To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is
not given to men.
- Edmund Burke
The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who
do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of
that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.
- William Cobbett
Of all debts, men are least willing to pay taxes. What a satire
is this on government?
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return.
It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
- Arthur C. Clarke
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
- Albert Einstein
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit
that carries any reward.
- John Maynard Keynes
People who complain about taxes can be divided into two classes:
men and women.
- Unknown
Income tax returns: the most imaginative fiction written today.
- Herman Wouk
Born Free. . . . .Taxed to Death
- Unknown
The lottery is just a tax on people who are bad at math.
- Anonymous Math Teacher
There's nothing wrong with the younger generation that
becoming taxpayers won't cure.
- Dan Bennett
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose
as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers
with the smallest possible amount of hissing.
- Jean B. Colbert
There is a difference between a tax collector and
a taxidermist -- the taxidermist leaves the hide.
- Mortimer Caplan
If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without
representation was bad, he should see how bad it
is with representation.
- Farmer's Almanac
The United States is the only country where it takes
more brains to figure your tax than to earn the money to pay it.
- Edward J. Gurney
I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the
government, and then hand it over to the government in
taxes to keep it going.
- George Bernard Shaw
Internal Revenue Service: The world's most successful
mail-order business.
- Bob Goddard
There is only one way to kill capitalism -- by taxes, taxes, and
more taxes.
- Karl Marx
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