Taxes Quotes - Page 6

• 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.

  Jean-Baptiste Colbert

  Art, Business, Religion

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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

  Government, Years, Pockets

  Will Rogers, Steven K. Gragert, M. Jane Johansson (2001). “The Papers of Will Rogers: From vaudeville to Broadway : September 1908-August 1915”, p.331, University of Oklahoma Press

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• In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

  Austin O'Malley

  Sheep, Liberty, Skins

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• Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It is about telling. The difference is fundamental. It is the difference between making love and being raped, between working for a living and being a slave. The Internal Revenue service is not asking anybody to do anything. It confiscates your assets and puts you behind bars if you don't pay.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Differences, Making Love

  Thomas Sowell (1999). “Barbarians Inside the Gates--and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.

  Milton Friedman

  Thinking, Government, Issues

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• If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Years, Liberty

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.11, Hayes Barton Press

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• A [tax loophole is] something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.

  Russell B. Long

  Guy, Liberty, Reform

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• The United States has a system of taxation by confession

  Hugo Black

  America, United States, Irs

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• Worried about an IRS audit? Avoid what's called a red flag. That's something the IRS always looks for. For example, say you have some money left in your bank account after paying taxes. That's a red flag

  Jay Leno

  Red Flags, Taxes Funny, Example

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• Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose you more money than any single person in your life, with the possible exception of your kids

  Harvey Mackay

  Kids, Taxation, Taxes Funny

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• I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day.

  Ronald Reagan

  Political, Taxation, Economics

  Remarks to American Business Conference, Washington, D.C., 13 Mar. 1985 See Film Lines 164

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• Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase ones taxes.

  Learned Hand

  Patriotic, Advice, Pay

  Helvering v. Gregory (1934)

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• Some taxpayers close their eyes, some stop their ears, some shut their mouths, but all pay through the nose.

  Evan Esar

  Eye, Noses, Ears

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• Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  People, Income, Taxation

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.271, Best Books on

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• The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take, If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.

  Ogden Nash

  Sleep, Soul, Praying

  Ogden Nash (1935). “The primrose path”

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• The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Government, Discovery, America

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• Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.

  Robert Nozick

  Philosophy, Political, Liberty

  "Anarchy, State, and Utopia" by Robert Nozick, (p. 169), 1974.

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• We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.

  Joe Scarborough

  Stupid, Giving, People

  "Big Hurdles Remain To A Deal In Budget Talks" by John King, www.cnn.com. July 20, 1997.

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

  Barry Goldwater

  Government, Political, Criminals

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• They have passed the big inheritance tax, and that gets you when you are gone. You used to could die and be able to beat taxes, but not now. The undertaker don't go over your body as carefully as the assessor does your accumilated assets, and he gets his before the undertaker. They have it on these big fortunes now where they pay as high as 60 to 70 percent of what they leave. That's mighty expensive dying when it runs into money like that, and you won't see 'em dropping off as casually as they have been.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Over You, Dying

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• I will absolutely give my [tax] return, but I'm being audited now for two or three years, so I can't do it until the audit is finished, obviously.

  Donald Trump

  Years, Two, Giving

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• I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.

  Warren Buffett

  Return, Tax Returns

  Source: www.9news.com

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• Anyone who's ever filed a tax return or visited the Department of Motor Vehicles understands that government does two things well: spend our money and waste our time.

  Edwin Feulner

  Government, Motor Vehicles, Two

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• A lot of the people that are poor take advantage of loopholes and pay no taxes.

  Rudy Giuliani

  People, Pay, Poor

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. October 2, 2016.

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• I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Age, Transition, Use

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