Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old tax quotes, tax sayings, and tax proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.Albert Bushnell Hart
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Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.Mark Skousen
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Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.F.J. Raymond
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The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.Denis Healey
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The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.Will Rogers
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The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.John S. Coleman
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.Thomas Jefferson
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This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher, when asked about completing his income tax form.Albert Einstein
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Tax rates should never be raised in some brackets without being raised in all brackets.Bradley A. Smith
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The power to tax is the power to destroy.John Marshall
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What people really want is fairness. They want people paying their fair share of taxes.Barack Obama
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You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.George P. Shultz
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The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.James Madison
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Tax reform means, don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.Russell Long
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It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.Will Rogers
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The problem is not that the people are taxed too little. The problem is that government spends too much.Ronald Reagan
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What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.Thomas Paine
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.Calvin Coolidge
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You can't tax business. Business doesn't pay taxes. It collects taxes.Ronald Reagan
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If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.Will Rogers
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The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.Thomas Dewar
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The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.Mark Twain
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The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.William Simon
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One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.Ron Paul
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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
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Every culture has some ritual for joining two people together and making them stay that way, and ours is giving tax breaks.Bauvard
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The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.Rand Paul
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Taxation with representation ain't so hot either.Gerald Barzan
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When there's a single thief, it's robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation.Vanya Cohen
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Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.Herman Wouk