Income Tax Quotes

• I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Connections, Income, Use

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• We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.

  Ronald Reagan

  Political, Liberty, Dollars

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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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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• The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.479, Princeton University Press

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• By the year 1982 the graduated income tax will have practically
  abolished major differences in wealth.

  Irwin Edman

  Years, Differences, Income

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• Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

  Thomas Sowell

  Income, Might, Pay

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• America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Land, America, Taxation

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.46, Harper Collins

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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 just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?

  Milton Berle

  Funny, Money, Humor

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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 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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• When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.

  James Dale Davidson

  Liberty, Politics, Libertarian

  James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg (1994). “The Great Reckoning: Protecting Yourself in the Coming Depression”, p.433, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Presidential, Liberty, Taxation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

  Barry Goldwater

  Government, Political, Criminals

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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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• It's income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and stab yourself in the aorta

  Dave Barry

  Income, Irs, Taxation

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• The United States has a system of taxation by confession

  Hugo Black

  America, United States, Irs

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• Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Military, Moving

  Remarks to state chairs of National White House Conference on Small Business, 15 Aug. 1986

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• The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

  Ronald Reagan

  Military, Work, Government

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

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

  Herman Wouk

  Book, Income, Fiction

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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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• 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, Paying Taxes

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• The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.

  Jean-Baptiste Colbert

  Art, Business, Religion

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