quotations about taxes
Taxes are the lifeblood of government and no taxpayer should be permitted to escape the payment of his just share of the burden of contributing thereto.
ARTHUR T. VANDERBILT
"Appeal of N.Y. State Realty & Terminal Company", 1956
Indoors or out, no one relaxes
In March, that month of wind and taxes,
The wind will presently disappear,
The taxes last us all the year.
OGDEN NASH
"Thar She Blows", Versus
Republicans spend their time trying to rig the tax system so that the kinds of income rich people get--capital gains, inheritances, and the like--get taxed at a lower rate than the kind of income you get when you work for a living.
PAUL WALDMAN
"Paying a Fair Share"
If we give all of the people who filed incorrect tax returns the benefit of the doubt and assume that every single one of them simply made an honest mistake, then doesn't common sense tell us that maybe the tax code is just a little too complex?
GLENN BECK
Glenn Beck's Common Sense
The best things in life are tax free.
JOSEPH BONKOWSKI
Quote Me
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
WILLIAM COBBETT
letter, February 10, 1804
If your biggest tax deduction was bail money, you might be a redneck.
JEFF FOXWORTHY
stand-up routine
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
Young Statesman
Taxes are like and unlike the rain, they fall upon the just and the unjust; most hardly upon the just because they will not resort to devious ways to escape the imposition.
PAUL CARUS
The Open Court
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
When the super-rich use offshore tax havens to avoid paying what they owe in taxes, they're reneging on their duties as citizens. It seems only fair to me that the consequences of that kind of tax avoidance ought to be loss of citizenship.
ROBERT REICH
Common Dreams, May 23, 2007
Taxes are an investment in America.
BILL GATES
attributed, Take This Job and Ship It