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The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get th

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

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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

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Dear IRS, I am writing to you to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list. – Charles M. Schulz (Snoopy)

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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. – Barry Goldwater

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