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Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves from the overtaxed. (Quote by - Bernard Berenson)
Taxes are the sinews of the state. (Quote by - Cicero)
I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money. (Quote by - Arthur Godfrey)
Death and taxes are inevitable. (Quote by - Thomas C. Haliburton)
Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund. (Quote by - F. J. Raymond)
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little. (Quote by - Van Panopoulos)
The tax collector must love poor people--he's creating so many of them. (Quote by - Bill Vaughan)
The thing generally raised on city land is taxes. (Quote by - Charles Dudley Warner)
Read my lips. No new taxes! (Quote by - George Bush)
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The power to tax involves the power to destroy. (Quote by - John Marshall)
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when its through, if you are a crook or a martyr. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
We now have so many regulations that everyone is guilty of some violation. (Quote by - Donald Alexander)
We stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to make the right choice. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
Let me point this out now. Your income tax is 100 percent voluntary tax, and your liquor tax is 100 percent enforced tax. Now, the situation is as different as night and day. Consequently, your same rules just will not apply... (Quote by - Dwight E. Avis)
As a taxpayer, you are required to be fully in compliance with the United States Tax Code, which is currently the size and weight of the Budweiser Clydesdales. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
Taxation with representation ain't so hot either. (Quote by - Gerald Barzan)
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder. (Quote by - Frederic Bastiat)
The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. (Quote by - Frederic Bastiat)
No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this principle with all the force of my lungs which alas! is all too inadequate. (Quote by - Frederic Bastiat)
All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate. (Quote by - Isaiah Berlin)
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humiliation and misery. (Quote by - Georges Bernanos)
Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk. (Quote by - Bertolt Brecht)
The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. (Quote by - David Brinkley)
Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before. (Quote by - Art Buchwald)
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair. (Quote by - George Burns)
Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them. (Quote by - William S. Burroughs)
The Act of Congress which we are impugning before you is communistic in its purposes and tendencies, and is defended here upon principles as communistic, socialistic - what shall I call them - populistic as ever have been addressed to any political assembly in the world. (Quote by - Joseph H. Choate)
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. (Quote by - Sir Winston Churchill)
So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. (Quote by - Sir Winston Churchill)
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn the money to pay them. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all. (Quote by - Davy Crockett)
The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State. (Quote by - Bertrand de Jouvenel)
To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection, it is plunder. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class. (Quote by - Frederick Douglass)
A liberal's like to be lax When recommending a tax. With a glut in his heart And his brain low a quart, He will give you the shirts off our backs. (Quote by - F. R. Duplantier)
Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes. (Quote by - Will Durant)
The Declaration of Independence, the words that launched our nation -- 1,300 words. The Bible, the word of God -- 773,000 words. The Tax Code, the words of politicians -- 7,000,000 words -- and growing! (Quote by - Steve Forbes)
When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
For the average American family, filling out a tax form has become like attacking a puzzle to which, often enough, there is no right answer. But we're all supposed to swear, on penalty of perjury, that we've done our best to find it. (Quote by - Paul Greenberg)
Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. (Quote by - Alan Greenspan)
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. (Quote by - Fredrich August von Hayek)
Oh, judge, your damn laws: the good people don't need them and the bad people don't follow them so what good are they? (Quote by - Ammon Hennacy)
An anarchist is anyone who doesn't need a cop to tell him what to do. (Quote by - Ammon Hennacy)
Force is the weapon of the weak. (Quote by - Ammon Hennacy)
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. (Quote by - Patrick Henry)
Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive. (Quote by - Auberon Herbert)
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. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American Dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him. . . . But we cannot have such reform while our tax policy is engineered by people who view the tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
Government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend? (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation? ... Today in our country the tax collector's share is 37 cents of every dollar earned. Freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
Income taxes have made more liars out of the American people than golf. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich -- or just out of the poor, as usual? (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
The blame for the national debt lies with the Congress and the President, with Democrats and Republicans alike, most all of whom have been unwilling to make the hard choices or to explain to the American people that there is no such thing as a free lunch. (Quote by - Warren Rudman)
Congress will ever exercise their powers to levy as much money as the people can pay. They will not be restrained from direct taxes by the consideration that necessity does not require them. (Quote by - Melancton Smith)
Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?" (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority. (Quote by - William Howard Taft)
I don't know if I can live on my income or not -- the government won't let me try it. (Quote by - Bob Thaves)
Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. (Quote by - Sir Alex Fraser Tytler)
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States. (Quote by - U.S. Constitution)
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. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer. (Quote by - Ludwig von Mises)
The government taxes you when you bring home a paycheck. It taxes you when you make a phone call. It taxes you when you turn on a light. It taxes you when you sell a stock. It taxes you when you fill your car with gas. It taxes you when you ride a plane. It taxes you when you get married. Then it taxes you when you die. This is taxual insanity and it must end. (Quote by - J. C. Watts, Jr.)
Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
When there's a single thief, it's robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation. (Quote by - Vanya Cohen)
We must care for each other more, and tax each other less. (Quote by - Bill Archer)
We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two. At least, as one man said, there's one advantage about death; it doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. (Quote by - Erwin N. Griswold)
What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
It's income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and stab yourself in the aorta. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
You don't pay taxes – they take taxes. (Quote by - Chris Rock)
The difference between death & taxes is death doesn't get worse each time Congress meets. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged. (Quote by - Roger Jones)
I am proud to be paying taxes in the US. I could be just as proud for half of the money though. (Quote by - Arthur Godfrey)
The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away. (Quote by - John S. Coleman)
Taxes grow without rain. (Quote by - Jewish Proverb)
There may be liberty and justice for all, but there are tax breaks only for some. (Quote by - Martin A. Sullivan)
Be wary of a strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss. (Quote by - Robert A. Heinlein)
The difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is the taxidermist leaves the skin. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
But in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
A taxpayer is someone who works for the federal government but who doesn't have to take a civil service examination. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
The trick is to stop thinking of it as 'your' money. (Quote by - Revenue Auditor)
The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax! (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The Government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The avoidance of taxes is the only pursuit that still carries any reward (Quote by - J M Keynes)
To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. (Quote by - Plato)
Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten (Quote by - Lord Bramwell)
There is no art which one government sooner learns from another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. (Quote by - Adam Smith)
There are two distinct classes of men... those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end. It has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice. (Quote by - Voltaire.)
He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities. (Quote by - Jean Jacques Rousseau)
There are two systems of taxation in our country: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. (Quote by - Honorable Learned Hand)
The haggis and European tax law have much in common. They both involve bloody processes, the end results are a mystery and those of a squeamish disposition should not get involved in the making of either. (Quote by - Anon)
Your federal government needs your money so that it can perform vital services for you that you would not think up yourself in a million years. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
We have from time-to-time complained about the complexity of our revenue laws and the almost impossible challenge they present to taxpayers or their representatives... Our complaints have obviously fallen upon deaf ears. (Quote by - Arnold Raum)
Benjamin Franklin said nothing is certain but death and taxes: but at least death doesn't get worse every year. (Quote by - Anon)
Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour. (Quote by - Fritz Zwicky)
An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job. (Quote by - Newt Gingrich)
Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun. (Quote by - Grover Norquist)
And it would be fair. Everyone will pay the same tax and it will eliminate tax cheaters and corporate shenanigans. (Quote by - Steve Forbes)
Small businesses are the backbone of job creation in South Carolina, but we're not maximizing our potential when we've got what's effectively the highest income tax rate in the Southeast holding us back. (Quote by - Mark Sanford)
The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit. (Quote by - Ginny B. Waite)
And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through. (Quote by - Geraldine Ferraro)
I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell. (Quote by - Larry J. Sabato)
Tax cuts continue to benefit families, seniors, and small business owners, as evidenced by unparalleled economic growth in Nevada and across the country. (Quote by - Jon Porter)
If I tax them, in fact, I'm not taxing the capitalists, I am taxing the people who have saved, trusted. It was very controversial, those sorts of things. But finally, it worked out. (Quote by - Shimon Peres)
But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing. (Quote by - Jilly Cooper)
In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community. (Quote by - John B. Robinson)
Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth. (Quote by - Bob Schaffer)
For my constituents, owning a home is the culmination of many years of hard work and the realization of the American Dream. At no time should a local entity take those years of hard work solely to increase their tax revenue. (Quote by - Solomon Ortiz)
While the wealthiest families completely benefit from the tax cuts targeted towards the upper brackets, middle-income families were hit with the unwelcome surprise of higher taxes on tax day. (Quote by - Tim Bishop)
Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people. (Quote by - Carol Moseley Braun)
Giving money and power to the government is like giving car keys and whisky to teenage boys. (Quote by - P.J. O'Rourke)
The politicians say we can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians. (Quote by - Steve Forbes)
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. (QUOTE BY - Laurence J. Peter)
The United States has a system of taxation by confession. (Quote by - Hugo Black)
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents? (Quote by - Peg Bracken)
The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose. (Quote by - William Simon)
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing. (Quote by - Jean Baptist Colbert)
To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury. (Quote by - Benjamin Tucker)
Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
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. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Our tax code is so long it makes War and Peace seem breezy. (Quote by - Steven LaTourette)
Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
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. (Quote by - Steve Forbes)
When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics. (Quote by - P.J. O'Rourke)
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federal income tax return. This includes individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations. (Quote by - Virgil Goode)
The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America. (Quote by - Richard Neal)
The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't. (Quote by - Peter Maxwell Davies)
The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses. (Quote by - Kit Bond)
I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways. (Quote by - Griffin Dunne)
Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 2005, helped get government out of the way of America's entrepreneurs, and our unemployment rate is now lower than it was in the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s. (Quote by - Marsha Blackburn)
Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong. (Quote by - Dennis Hastert)
The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden. (Quote by - Richard Neal)
Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.' (Quote by - Russell B. Long)
I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for. (Quote by - Jonathan Dimbleby)
I think the average citizen is going to see no less than a $1,500 or more increase in what it's going to cost for basic living next year,... Taking sales tax off food isn't going to take care of all of that, but I think it's a way that we can help. (Quote by - Ann Robinson)
Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired. (Quote by - John Shadegg)
I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense. (Quote by - John Warner)
Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy. (Quote by - Cathy McMorris)
You can't be evangelical and associate yourself with Jesus and what he says about the poor and just have no other domestic concerns than tax cuts for wealthy people. (Quote by - Jim Wallis)
A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues. (Quote by - Andrew Mellon)
Bringing the troops home is necessary not just for the future of Iraq, but also for the people of the United States. We must stop the hemorrhaging of tax dollars that could go to meet our Nation's vital domestic needs. (Quote by - Raul Grijalva)
The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax us citizens for our carbon footprints. (Quote by - John Coleman)
So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?' (Quote by - Jim Wallis)
It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system. (Quote by - Robert Welch)