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• I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.

  Lucy Stone

  Suffering, Bills, Return

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• The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.

  James Madison

  Finance, Budgets, Productive

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.160, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

  Charles Kettering

  Science, Thinking, Able

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• The politicians say 'we' can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians.

  Steve Forbes

  Funny, Business, Cutting

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• If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Years, Liberty

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.11, Hayes Barton Press

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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, Politics

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

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• A fool and his money are soon married.

  Carolyn Wells

  Money, Italian, Fool

  Carolyn Wells (1912). “The Lover's Baedeker and Guide to Arcady”

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• Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.

  Thomas Paine

  Government, Hands, Greedy

  "Rights of Man, Part 2". Book by Thomas Paine. "Introduction", en.wikisource.org. 1792.

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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, Taxes Funny, Levels

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• The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kings, Ignorance, School

  Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Life and Writings of ...”

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• Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Missing You, Strong, Drinking

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.325, Penguin

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• I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Prayer, Answers

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.467, Courier Corporation

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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

  Citizens, Indirect, Notes

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

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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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• 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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• For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Benefits, Taxes

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• What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.

  Thomas Paine

  Names, Firsts, Plunder

  Thomas Paine (2014). “Selected Writings of Thomas Paine”, p.276, Yale University Press

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• You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.

  Chris Rock

  Inspirational, Government, Taxes Funny

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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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• There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Fall, Government

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.128

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• 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

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• I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Civilization, Paying Taxes, Taxes Funny

  "If we want a civilised society, charities can't fill the void left by government" by Debbie Chachra, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2013.

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• When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government.

  Grover Cleveland

  Patriotic, Government, People

  Second Annual Message, December 1886.

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• Indoors or out, no one relaxes
  In March, that month of wind and taxes,
  The wind will presently disappear,
  The taxes last us all the year.

  Ogden Nash

  Spring, Years, Wind

  "Thar She Blows". "Versus". Book by Ogden Nash, 1949.

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• The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess ... It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

  Adam Smith

  Vanity, Progressive Taxation, Luxury

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