America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. – Laurence J. Peter
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
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
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, 1789 November 13th
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. – Herman Wouk
Capital punishment: The income tax. – Jeff Hayes
If the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, how he must hate the taxpayer! – John Andrew Holmes
People who complain about taxes can be divided into two classes: men and women. – Author Unknown
Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: animals have instincts, we have taxes. – Erving Goffman
The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ. – Thomas Jefferson
To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury. – Benjamin Tucker, Instead of a Book
Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income. – Alfred E. Neuman
