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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down

Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high†taxes†and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a†taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.

Grover Norquist

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going

George Bernard Shaw

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.

Arthur Godfrey

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.

Andy Rooney

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

Michael Bloomberg

Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game -- it, and high taxes

Will Rogers

A survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes. So that's why we can't get anything done in the morning: We're government workers

Jay Leno

ï Never buy the cheapest wine in any category, as its taste may discourage you from going on. The glass, corks, cartons, and labor are about the same for any wine, as are the ocean freight and taxes for imported wines. Consequently, if you spend a little more, you are likely to get a better wine, because the other costs remain fixed. Cheap wine will always be too expensive.

Alex Bespaloff

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

Lao Tzu

The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

William Lyon MacKenzie

Taxes grow without rain.

Jewish Proverb

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.

John Maynard Keynes

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes non-work.

Milton Friedman

I am thankful for the taxes I pay because it means that I'm employed.

Nancie J. Carmody

But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions.

John Edward Redmond

Tariff: a scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

Ambrose Bierce

Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

By issuing our own money we can eliminate all income taxes and employment taxes and the national debt would cease to exist.

Unknown

Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: animals have instincts, we have taxes.

Erving Goffman