Paying Taxes Quotes

• 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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• My second biggest mistake in life, for which I have no one to blame but myself, is having accepted payments in cash from Karlheinz Schreiber for a mandate he gave me after I left office... My biggest mistake in life, by far, was ever agreeing to be introduced to Karlheinz Schreiber in the first place.

  Brian Mulroney

  Mistake, Trying, Cash

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• I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.

  Bill Murray

  Jobs, People, Trying

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• We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

  Milton Friedman

  Lazy, Society, Liberty

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• Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Sweat, Taxes Funny

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6”, p.798, Best Books on

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• The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

  Warren Buffett

  Hope, Money, Catching On

  "Warren Buffett: Read My Lips, Raise My Taxes". "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. November 21, 2010.

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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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• There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Thinking, Political

  "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress". Novel by Robert A. Heinlein, 1966.

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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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• Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Political, Society, Cooperation

  Compania General de Tabacos de Filipinas v. Collector of Internal Revenue (dissenting opinion) (1927)

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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, 1st Baron Dewar

  Hurt, Income, Pay

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• Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Civilized Society, Pay, Taxes

  "Compania General De Tabacos De Filipinas v. Collector of Internal Revenue, 275 U.S. 87, 100". Dissenting opinion, November 21, 1927.

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

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Civilization, Taxation, Taxes Funny

  "If we want a civilised society, charities can't fill the void left by government" by Debbie Chachra, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2013.

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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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• A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Everybody's Political What's What? ch. 30 (1944)

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• I wouldn't mind paying taxes... if I knew they were going to a friendly country

  Dick Gregory

  Country, Mind, Friendly

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• Same sex marriage isn't gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don't.

  Ricky Gervais

  Marriage, Sex, Gay

  FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Apr 29, 2015

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• With these 11 million people here illegally, let's have them registered, know who they are, those that are her paying taxes and not taking government benefits should begin a process towards application for citizenship.

  Mitt Romney

  Government, People, Benefits

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• It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

  Lindsey Graham

  Taxes

  "Lindsey Graham: 'It’s Really American' To Avoid Taxes Like Mitt Romney Does" by Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 10, 2012.

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• Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.

  Jennifer Dunn

  Practice, Adults, Debt

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• If you've been here 15 years and you've got three kids and grandkids and you've been paying taxes and obeying the law, you belong to a local church, I don't think we're going to separate you from your family, uproot you forcefully and kick you out.

  Newt Gingrich

  Kids, Thinking, Years

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• There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there.

  Bill Murray

  Jobs, Acting, Asking

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

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• Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.

  Sarah Vowell

  Voting, Citizenship, Goofing Off

  Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• As far as I'm concerned, the people who aren't paying taxes don't get to run around claiming that they built everything, that the built the roads and that they built the bridges and so forth.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Bridges, People

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• When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.

  Ernie Banks

  Sports, Morning, Insecure

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