Taxes Quotes

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.

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

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

The United States has a system of taxation by confession.
Hugo Black

We must care for each other more, and tax each other less.
Bill Archer

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

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

Isn't it appropriate that the month of the tax begins with April Fool's Day and ends with cries of "May Day!"?
Rob Knauerhase

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.
J. B. Colbert

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
Denis Healey

The best way to relieve families from time to time is to let them keep some of their own money.

We believe the American people can spend their money better than the government can spend it.

The politicians say "we" can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians.
Steve Forbes

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Taxes are the sinews of the state.

I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization.







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