Irs Quotes

• We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.

  Dave Barry

  Strong, Patriotic, Jail

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.

  Tom Daschle

  Cheating, Mistake, Cheater

  "Daschle On Tax Cheats: IRS Should Enforce Laws". Congressional Record, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 7, 1998.

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• The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Mafia, Want

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• When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Plato, Men

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.185, Penguin

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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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• Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form

  Laurence J. Peter

  Income, Taxation, Tests

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• The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS.

  Dr. Dre

  Two, Scare, Two Things

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.

  Ron Paul

  Good Years, Income, Amendments

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• If you make one word out of 'The IRS' it spells 'theirs.'

  Lyn Nofziger

  Spells, One Word, Ifs

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• The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power.

  James Bovard

  Children, Agency, Government

  Interview with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.

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• I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

  Laurie Anderson

  Art, Hobbies, Architecture

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• Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

  H. L. Mencken

  Humorous, Average, America

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• I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money

  Arthur Godfrey

  Funny, Money, Humor

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1951

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• Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten

  George Bramwell, 1st Baron Bramwell

  Mother, Misunderstood, Taxation

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• Only in America does 'health' 'care' 'reform' begin with the hiring of 16,500 new IRS agents tasked with determining whether your insurance policy merits a fine.

  Mark Steyn

  America, Agents, Care

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• While you're alive, the IRS will attempt to take what you've made. When you're not, the IRS will attempt to take what it missed.

  Charles J. Givens

  Alive, Made

  Charles J. Givens (1995). “More Wealth Without Risk”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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• Those who advocate either slavery or income taxation should be ashamed of themselves. Genuine freedom entails the abolition, not the reform, of income taxation and the IRS, just as genuine freedom entailed the abolition, not the reform, of slavery.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Taxation, Slavery, Reform

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• Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice.

  Christopher Dodd

  Rights, Practice, Decision

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• While tax refunds amount to substantial income for many Americans, current IRS rules do not allow taxpayers to directly deposit their refund into more than one account.

  Jim Cooper

  Income, Taxpayers, Currents

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• Reports also suggest that Ernst and Young and other large tax preparation firms are sending tax returns overseas for processing. But the IRS has no control over tax information once it's been sent to India or another country.

  Melissa Bean

  Country, Preparation, India

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• Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.

  Billy Joel

  Thinking, Musician, Unlikely

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• Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!

  Harold H. Greene

  Complicated, Guidelines, Code

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• It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.

  Jessica Savitch

  Salary, Belief, Individual

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Records, Finance, Wanted

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• I don't want the IRS banging down my door.

  Jessica Cutler

  Doors, Want, Banging

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