The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they’re useless. – Dave Barry
I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. – Mark Twain
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. – Dave Barry
Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund. – F.J. Raymond
While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don’t. I find it patriotic. – Mark Cuban
The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes. – Lao Tzu
The difference between death and taxes is death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets. – Will Rogers
We have what it takes to take what you have. – Suggested IRS Motto
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. – Calvin Coolidge
The problem is not that the people are taxed too little. The problem is that government spends too much. – Ronald Reagan
By today’s standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum. His actual impact on their personal lives was trivial. He had arbitrary power over them in law and in principle but in fact it was seldom exercised. If you compare his rule with that of today’s U.S. Government you have to wonder why we celebrate our independence. – Joseph Sobran
The taxpayer is the new permanent underclass. – Andrew Wilkow
What people really want is fairness. They want people paying their fair share of taxes. – Barack Obama
The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government. – James Madison
Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
Every culture has some ritual for joining two people together and making them stay that way, and ours is giving tax breaks. – Bauvard
Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Taxation without representation is tyranny. – James Otis
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. – Thomas Jefferson
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
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,
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
The IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want! – Jerry Seinfeld
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