Taxes Quotes - Page 5

• The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.

  James Madison

  Government, People, Essentials

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• What it 't to us, if taxes rise or fall,
  Thanks to our fortune, we pay none at all.
  Let muckworms who in dirty acres deal,
  Lament those hardships which we cannot feel,
  His grace who smarts, may bellow if he please,
  But must I bellow too, who sit at ease?
  By custom safe, the poets' numbers flow,
  Free as the light and air some years ago.
  No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains
  To tax our labours, and excise our brains.
  Burthens like these with earthly buildings bear,
  No tributes laid on castles in the air.

  Charles Churchill

  Pain, Smart, Dirty

  Charles Churchill (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir by James L. Hannay and Copious Notes by W. Tooke”, p.89

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• A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Government, Political, Taxation

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). “Democracy in America”, p.708, Regnery Publishing

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• Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.

  Daniel Defoe

  Certain, Friars, Faustus

  1726 History of the Devil, bk.2, ch.6. 0 See also Franklin 335:18.

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• Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

  Karl Marx

  Museums, Civilization, Dancer

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1976). “Collected works”

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• It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.

  Will Rogers

  Cost, Used, Ten

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

  Albert Camus

  Taxation, Citizens, Indirect

  "Caligula", act 1, sc. 8, Pléiade, 1962.

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• I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

  Noel Coward

  Birthday, Tuesday, Age

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• Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.

  Ron Paul

  Mean, Simple, Generations

  "Deficits Make You Poorer" by Ron Paul, www.lewrockwell.com. March 15, 2005.

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• The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

  Paula Poundstone

  Funny, Time, Taken

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• Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Energy, Lasts, Sun

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• Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

  Adam Smith

  Peace, Justice, Littles

  Adam Smith, comte Germain Garnier, Dugald Stewart (1835). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.96

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• Now they got such a high inheritance tax on 'em that you won't catch these old rich boys dying promiscuously like they did. This bill makes patriots out of everybody. You sure do die for your country if you die from now on.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Boys, Dying

  Will Rogers (1955). “Sanity is where you find it: an affectionate history of the United States in the 20's and 30's”

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• Get a sales tax, small on necessities and large on luxuries; then a stiff inheritance tax on the fellow that saves and don't spend. That will get him either way. A tax paid on the day you buy is not as tough as asking you for it the next year when you are broke.

  Will Rogers

  Luxury, Years, Next Year

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• The sales tax is the best and most equitable tax. The gasoline tax, which is nothing but a sales tax, has proven painless, productive and punitive. Everything we buy should have its equal proportion of tax, outside of cheap food and cheap clothes.

  Will Rogers

  Clothes, Should Have, Gasoline

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• If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to support half the community who own no land and pay no taxes.

  Will Rogers

  Land, Support, Community

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• The high income tax come pretty near passing in the Senate. Only lacked about six votes. So it won't be long now. Well, there is millions and millions that are not making it, that would be glad to give up 99 per cent if you would let 'em earn a hundred thousand or more.

  Will Rogers

  Giving Up, Long, Ems

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• You can't legitimately kick on income tax, for it's on what you have made. You have already made it. But, look at land, farms, homes, stores, vacant lots. You pay year after year on them whether you make it or not.

  Will Rogers

  Home, Land, Years

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• The whole trouble with the Republicans is their fear of an increase in income tax, especially on higher incomes. They speak of it almost like a national calamity. I really believe if it come to a vote whether to go to war with England, France and Germany combined, or raise the rate on incomes of over $100,000, they would vote war.

  Will Rogers

  War, Believe, France

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• 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

  Crooks, Taxation, Taxes Funny

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• For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Taxation, Benefits

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• The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Zero, Funny Life, Business

  "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners". Book by Geoff Tibballs (p. 264), 2004.

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• Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific animals

  Will Rogers

  Taken, Inspiration, Animal

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover years, 1929-1931”

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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 person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.

  Ann Landers

  Being Thankful, Taxes Funny, Pay

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