Tax Quotes and Sayings

A fine is a tax for doing wrong.
A tax is a fine for doing well.

Did you ever notice that when you put the words “The” and “IRS” together, it spells “THEIRS?”

The politicians say “we” can’t afford a tax cut. Maybe we can’t afford the politicians.
-Steve Forbes

It is wrong to tax a working person almost to the breaking point, then give it to a person who is able to work but refuses to.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
– Albert Einstein

In this world nothing is certain but death & taxes.

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

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
– Laurence J. Peter

Taxes grow without rain.
– Jewish Proverb

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
– Thomas Jefferson

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
– Calvin Coolidge

The best things in life are free, but sooner or later the government will find a way to tax them.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.
– John Marshall

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.
– Winston Churchill

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
– Robert A. Heinlein

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

You don’t pay taxes – they take taxes.
– Chris Rock

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
– Barry Goldwater

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
– Frédéric Bastiat

We have what it takes to take what you have.
– Suggested IRS Motto

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

Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.
-Alfred E. Neuman

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
– Benjamin Franklin

Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rich as what they are – a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.
– Ha-Joon Chang,

The IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!
– Jerry Seinfeld

The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.
– Joe E. Lewis

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

There may be liberty and justice for all, but there are tax breaks only for some.
-Martin A. Sullivan