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Taxation

No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction. – Proverb

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed. – Bernard Berenson

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that havent been taxed before. – Art Buchwald

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. – Edmund Burke

Read my lips: no new taxes. – George Bush

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them. – Tiberius Caesar

There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist — the taxidermist leaves the hide. – Mortimer Caplan

No statesmen ever will find it worth his pains, to tax our labor and excise our brain. – Randolph Churchill

Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong hell go to jail, and if he files it right hell go to the poor house. – Nonnee Coan

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. – William Cobbett

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. – J. B. Colbert

The politicians dont 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. – James Dale Davidson

Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax. – Lord Thomas Dewar

All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury. – Prince Philip Edinburgh

My Lord, I sorrow to learn that I am so timorous of heart and to learn that my Lord could be so forgetful of the elementary facts of nature, and also of mankind, that he believes when the lesser joins the greater, it can remain itself and maintain it – Andrew Fletcher

We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness. – Benjamin Franklin

Income tax time is when you test your powers of deduction. – Shelby Friedman