~ The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose. ~
~ Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. ~
~ 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. ~
~ Our tax code is so long it makes War and Peace seem breezy. ~
~ There may be liberty and justice for all, but there are tax breaks only for some. ~
~ Taxes grow without rain. ~
~ The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. ~
~ The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. ~
~ The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward. ~
~ The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.'' ~
~ Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle. ~
~ We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes non-work. ~