Tax Quotes and Sayings
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
- Albert Einstein
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
- Laurence J. Peter
Taxes grow without rain.
- Jewish Proverb
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Did you ever notice that when you put the words “The” and “IRS” together, it spells “THEIRS?”
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
- John Marshall
One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.
- Ron Paul
There may be liberty and justice for all, but there are tax breaks only for some.
~Martin A. Sullivan
The best things in life are free, but sooner or later the government will find a way to tax them.
The politicians say “we” can’t afford a tax cut. Maybe we can’t afford the politicians.
~Steve Forbes
Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for. ~Will Rogers
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
~Barry Goldwater
We must care for each other more, and tax each other less.
~Bill Archer
People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can’t live within its income.
~Robert Half
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
~Herman Wouk
Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.
~Max Baucus
Capital punishment: The income tax.
~Jeff Hayes
You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.
- Ronald Reagan
Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: animals have instincts, we have taxes.
~Erving Goffman