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”

• 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

• 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

• 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

• There is some talk of lowering (the income tax), and they will have to. People are not making enough to pay it.

  Will Rogers

  People, Income, Pay

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

• Say did you read in the papers about a bunch of Women up in British Columbia as a protest against high taxes, sit out in the open naked, and they wouldent put their clothes on? The authorities finally turned a Sprayer that you use on trees, on 'em. That may lead into quite a thing. Woman comes into the tax office nude, saying I won't pay. Well they can't search her and get anything. It sounds great. How far is it to British Columbia?

  Will Rogers

  Clothes, Office, Tree

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

• Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Pay, Income

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

• 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

• 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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