Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income. – Alfred E. Neuman

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing. – Jean Baptist Colbert, attributed

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. – Laurence J. Peter

The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away. – John S. Coleman, address, Detroit Chamber of Commerce, 1956