Tax Quotes and Sayings
The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.
- Joe E. Lewis
I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.
- Ronald Reagan
Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.
~Max Baucus
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
You don’t pay taxes – they take taxes.
~Chris Rock
The politicians say “we” can’t afford a tax cut. Maybe we can’t afford the politicians.
~Steve Forbes
The sales tax seems to be more politically acceptable than the income tax.
~Raymond C. Scheppach
The payment of taxes gives a right to protection.
~James M. Wayne
A fine is a tax for doing something wrong. A tax is a fine for doing something right.
Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
~Barry Goldwater
There may be liberty and justice for all, but there are tax breaks only for some.
~Martin A. Sullivan
There’s nothing wrong with the younger generation that becoming taxpayers won’t cure.
~Dan Bennett
Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for. ~Will Rogers
You must pay taxes. But there’s no law that says you gotta leave a tip.
Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.
~Albert Bushnell Hart
Our tax code is so long it makes War and Peace seem breezy.
~Steven LaTourette
The best things in life are free, but sooner or later the government will find a way to tax them.