Will Rogers Quotes About Taxes

Quotes about: Taxes

• The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

  Will Rogers

  Death, Government, Political Will

• 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

• 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

• 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

• When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise them. That's statesmanship of the highest order.

  Will Rogers

  Money, Cutting, Order

• 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”

• 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

• The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent.

  Will Rogers

  Taxation, Way, Crime

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

• People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.

  Will Rogers

  Men, People, Want

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.97, Rowman & Littlefield

• Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Inspiration, Hamilton

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

• If Wall Street paid a tax on every “game” they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Wall, Government

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

• I don't see why a man shouldn't pay an inheritance tax. If a Country is good enough to pay taxes to while you are living, it's good enough to pay in after you die. By the time you die you should be so used to paying taxes that it would just be almost second nature to you.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Men, Law

  "They've Got a New Dictionary at Ellis Island" (1926)

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

  Will Rogers

  Lying, Liars, Golf

• We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Humor, Able

• 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

• If you have a radio, the next three months is a good time to have it quit working. All you will hear from now until the 4th of November will be: 'We must get our government out of the hands of predatory wealth.' 'The good people of this great country are burdened to death with taxes. Now what I intend to do is ...' What he intends to do is try and get elected. That's all any of them intend to do. Another one that will hum over the old static every night will be: 'This country has reached a crisis in its national existence.'

  Will Rogers

  Country, Night, Hands

• If your Income Taxes go to help out the less fortunate, there could be no legitimate kick against it in the world. This is becoming the richest, and the poorest Country in the world. Why? Why, on account of an unequal distribution of the money.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Becoming, Income

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover Years, 1929-1931”

• How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?

  Will Rogers

  Government, America, Usual

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.99, Rowman & Littlefield

• Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.

  Will Rogers

  Government, America, Taxation

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.99, Rowman & Littlefield

• There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Humorous, Russia

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.195, Rowman & Littlefield

• I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes-I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em

  Will Rogers

  Inspiration, People, Ems

• 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”

• Millions and millions of people don't pay an income tax, because they don't earn enough to pay on one, but you pay a land tax whether it ever did or ever will earn you a penny. You should pay on things that you buy outside of bare necessities. I think this sales tax is the best tax we have had in years.

  Will Rogers

  Thinking, Years, Land

• Land taxes is the thing. They got so high that there is no chance to make anything. Not only land but all property tax. You see in the old days, why the only thing they knew how to tax was land, or a house. Well, that condition went along for quite awhile, so even today the whole country tries to run its revenue on taxes on land. They never ask if the land makes anything. "It's land ain't it? Well tax it then."

  Will Rogers

  Running, Country, Real

• 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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