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
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
In this world nothing is certain but death & taxes.
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
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
The power to tax is the power to destroy. – John Marshall
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. – Calvin Coolidge
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
The best things in life are free, but sooner or later the government will find a way to tax them.
Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
You don’t pay taxes – they take taxes. – Chris Rock
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
I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. – Barry Goldwater
Just taught my kids about taxes by eating 38% of their ice cream. – Conan O’Brien
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
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
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. – Benjamin Franklin
Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for. – Will Rogers
Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income. -Alfred E. Neuman
We have what it takes to take what you have. – Suggested IRS Motto
The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes. – Lao Tzu
The IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want! – Jerry Seinfeld
Our tax code is so long it makes War and Peace seem breezy. -Steven LaTourette
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness… but only when you pay your taxes? That means your freedom is rented, leased, & not unalienable. – Steve Maraboli
The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose. -William Simon
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. – Will Rogers
When there’s a single thief, it’s robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it’s taxation. – Vanya Cohen
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. -Herman Wouk
There is no such thing as a good tax. – Winston Churchill
What people really want is fairness. They want people paying their fair share of taxes. – Barack Obama
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,
There may be liberty and justice for all, but there are tax breaks only for some. -Martin A. Sullivan
Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to spend more it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay – that ‘someone else’ is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers’ money. – Margaret Thatcher
The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love. – Joe E. Lewis
Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: animals have instincts, we have taxes. -Erving Goffman
Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always rely on the support of Paul. – George Bernard Shaw
The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream.
All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working? – Lawrence Summers
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. – Oscar Wilde
Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund. – F.J. Raymond
We must care for each other more, and tax each other less. -Bill Archer
Some may say a burden but tax payers are real patriots.
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