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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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Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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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

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I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. – Mark Twain

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