Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dear IRS, I am writing to you to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list. – Charles M. Schulz (Snoopy)
The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away. – John S. Coleman, address, Detroit Chamber of Commerce, 1956
The best things in life are free, but sooner or later the government will find a way to tax them. – Author Unknown
The government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. – Ronald Reagan
I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. – Mark Twain
Our tax code is so long it makes War and Peace seem breezy. – Steven LaTourette
Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized. – Albert Bushnell Hart, Actual Government, 1903
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. – John Sherman
This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher. – Albert Einstein, about filling out his income tax form, 1944
U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund. – F.J. Raymond
There may be liberty and justice for all, but there are tax breaks only for some. – Martin A. Sullivan
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. – Barry Goldwater
Taxes grow without rain. – Jewish Proverb
Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card. A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here. – Steve Forbes
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. – H.L. Mencken
The payment of taxes gives a right to protection. – James M. Wayne
