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It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them. (Quote by - Tiberius Caesar)
The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love. (Quote by - Joe E. Lewis)
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. (Quote by - J. B. Colbert)
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. (Quote by - Denis Healey)
I wouldn't mind paying taxes -- if I knew they were going to a friendly country. (Quote by - Dick Gregory)
If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation. (Quote by - Rush Limbaugh)
Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund. (Quote by - F. J. Raymond)
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
There is no such thing as a good tax. (Quote by - Sir Winston Churchill)
Only the little people pay taxes. (Quote by - Leona Helmsley)
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)
I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers. Go ahead-make my day. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
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)
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)
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
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)
Someone must stand up to those who say, Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
Most tax revisions didn't improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself: complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisers. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. (Quote by - Herman Wouk)
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 - Winston Churchill)
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)
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes." (Quote by - H. E. Martz)
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward. (Quote by - John Maynard Keynes)
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)
The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Death and taxes are inevitable. (Quote by - Thomas C. Haliburton)
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)
When there's a single thief, it's robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation. (Quote by - Vanya Cohen)
Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of. (Quote by - Andy Rooney)
Taxation with representation ain't so hot either. (Quote by - Gerald Barzan)
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. (Quote by - Laurence J. Peter)
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)
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 )
Our tax code is so long it makes War and Peace seem breezy. (Quote by - Steven LaTourette)
There may be liberty and justice for all, but there are tax breaks only for some. (Quote by - Martin A. Sullivan)
Taxes grow without rain. (Quote by - Jewish Proverb)
The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government. (Quote by - James Madison)
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle. (Quote by - Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes non-work. (Quote by - Milton Friedman)
I am thankful for the taxes I pay because it means that I'm employed. (Quote by - Nancie J. Carmody)
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. (Quote by - Barry Goldwater)
The United States has a system of taxation by confession. (Quote by - Hugo Black)
We must care for each other more, and tax each other less. (Quote by - Bill Archer)
Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: animals have instincts, we have taxes. (Quote by - Erving Goffman)
Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income. (Quote by - Alfred E. Neuman )
Isn't it appropriate that the month of the tax begins with April Fool's Day and ends with cries of "May Day!"? (Quote by - Rob Knauerhase)
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. (Quote by - Denis Healey)
The best way to relieve families from time to time is to let them keep some of their own money. (Quote by - George Bush)
Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil. (Quote by - Michael Bloomberg)
We believe the American people can spend their money better than the government can spend it. (Quote by - George Bush)
The politicians say "we" can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians. (Quote by - Steve Forbes)
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. (Quote by - Gore Vidal)
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)
Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them. (Quote by - Margaret Mitchell)
Income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf (Quote by - Will Rogers)
I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged. (Quote by - Roger Jones)
They said I live in a wonderful country and should pay my taxes with a smile! I tried that but they insisted on CASH!! (Quote by - Mel Narvey)
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. (Quote by - Arthur C. Clarke)
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss. (Quote by - Robert A. Heinlein)
Nothing in life is certain except death and taxes. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government. (Quote by - Rush Limbaugh)
Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that? (Quote by - Rush Limbaugh)
In the future they'll be taxing you by the atom. (Quote by - Tony Follari Comedian)