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Taxes and taxation

It is getting harder and harder to support the government in the style to which it has become accustomed.

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Best Quotes about Taxes and taxation

1.

A fool and his money are soon parted. The rest of us wait for tax time.

2.

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

Limbaugh, Rush

3.

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

Berenson, Bernard

4.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

Bush, George

5.

I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as proud for half the money.

Godfrey, Arthur

6.

It is getting harder and harder to support the government in the style to which it has become accustomed.

7.

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!

Mitchell, Margaret

8.

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

Twain, Mark

9.

Of all our natural resources, the first one to be exhausted may be the taxpayer.

10.

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

O'Malley, Austin

11.

Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

12.

When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. -- they'll find something.

Horton, Doug

13.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

Mencken, H. L.

14.

We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.

Helmsley, Leona

15.

Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right he'll go to the poor house.

Coan, Nonnee

16.

Taxes and golf are alike, you drive your heart out for the green, and then end up in the hole.

17.

The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.

King, Stephen

18.

All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.

Edinburgh, Prince Philip, Duke of

19.

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.

Raymond, F. J.

20.

Patrick Henry railed against taxation without representation. He should see it with representation.

Landau, Saul

21.

In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.

Voltaire

22.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

Healey, Denis

23.

There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist -- the taxidermist leaves the hide.

Caplan, Mortimer

24.

Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.

Proverb, Greek

25.

Our tax law is a 1, 598-page hydra-headed monster and I'm going to attack and attack and attack until I have ironed out every fault in it.

Kellems, Vivien

26.

No statesmen ever will find it worth his pains, to tax our labor and excise our brain.

Churchill, Randolph

27.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

Rogers, Will

28.

The taxpayer; that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn't have to take a civil service examination.

Reagan, Ronald

29.

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

Caesar, Tiberius

30.

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

Limbaugh, Rush

31.

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

Miller, Olin

32.

The tax collector must love poor people. He is creating so many of them.

Vaughan, Bill

33.

No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.

Proverb, American

34.

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age -- which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

Coward, Noel

35.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.

Colbert, J. B.

36.

Taxes, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

37.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.

Rogers, Will

38.

The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms. Armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

39.

Only little people pay taxes.

Helmsley, Leona

40.

Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you do not know when it is through if you are a crook or a martyr.

Rogers, Will

41.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.