Taxes Quotes - Page 3

• I love America, but I can't spend the whole year here. I can't afford the taxes.

  Mick Jagger

  Years, America, Funny Money

  "Time is on our side: A look back at the Rolling Stones". www.interviewmagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

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• [The Internal Revenue Code is] about 10 times the size of the Bible and, unlike the Bible, contains no good news

  Don Nickles

  News, Taxation, Size

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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, Irs, Taxation

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

  George Bramwell, 1st Baron Bramwell

  Mother, Misunderstood, Irs

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• When a party can't think of anything else they always fall back on Lower Taxes. It has a magic sound to a voter, just like Fairyland is spoken of and dreamed of by all children. But no child has ever seen it; neither has any voter ever lived to see the day when his taxes were lowered. Presidents have been promising lower taxes since Washington crossed the Delaware by hand in a row boat. But our taxes have gotten bigger and their boats have gotten larger until now the President crosses the Delaware in his private yacht.

  Will Rogers

  Children, Fall, Party

  Will Rogers (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• They are having quite an argument over Treasury Secretary Mellon's Tax Bill. Mr. Mellon wants to cut the surtax on the rich, and leave it as is on the poor, as there is more poor than rich. I suppose the majority will win.

  Will Rogers

  Cutting, Winning, Bills

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• I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.

  Will Rogers

  Mean, Men, Nuisance

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Taxation, World, Chiefs

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.1743, e-artnow

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• Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

  John Dryden

  Men, Virtue, Crime

  John Dryden (1861). “Poetical Works”, p.231

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• What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Money, Differences

  Notebook, Dec. 1902

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• No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.

  John Ruskin

  Discovery, Effort, Toil

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• Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

  Herman Wouk

  Book, Income, Fiction

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• The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

  Will Rogers

  Lying, Liars, Golf

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• Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.

  Andy Rooney

  People, Wish, Important

  "Rooney: Please Choose". www.cbsnews.com. October 29, 2004.

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• Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Death, 4th Of July, Promise

  Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy, 13 Nov. 1789

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• Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.

  Erving Goffman

  Men, Animal, Way

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• If we don't do something to simplify the tax system, we're going to end up with a national police force of internal revenue agents.

  Leon Panetta

  Police, Agents, Force

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• Of course, the truth is that the congresspersons are too busy raising campaign money to read the laws they pass. The laws are written by staff tax nerds who can put pretty much any wording they want in there. I bet that if you actually read the entire vastness of the US tax code, you'd find at least one sex scene. ("Yes, yes, YES!" moaned Vanessa as Lance, his taut body moist with moisture, again and again depreciated her adjusted gross rate of annualized fiscal debenture...)

  Dave Barry

  Sex, Law, Nerd

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• Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Political, Society, Paying Taxes

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

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• Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?

  Bill Veeck

  Stars, Games, Play

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• The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.

  Peter De Vries

  Business, Pay, Finance

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• Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Taxation, Taxes Funny, Pay

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• The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

  Denis Healey

  Wall, Business, Differences

  "Holes in the Net". www.economist.com. May 04, 2006.

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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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• Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

  Peg Bracken

  Memorable, Cutting, Two

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