Taxes Quotes - Page 4

• I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Fall, Responsibility, Accountability

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• Taxes are indeed very heavy -
  We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness.
  Three times as much by our Pride.
  And four times as much by our Folly.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Pride, Three, Taxation

  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.248

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• I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of 'from each according to his capacity and to each according to his needs'. That's socialism. It's written into the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him.

  T. Coleman Andrews

  Ideas, Return, Income

  U.S. News & World Report, May 25, 1956.

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• The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes

  Tacitus

  Army, Arms, Pay

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• I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.

  Mark Twain

  House, Profanity, Tax Day

  Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.127, University of Missouri Press

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• Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Sweat, Paying Taxes

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6”, p.798, Best Books on

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• Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Opportunity, Community, Taxation

  Albert Bushnell Hart (1918). “Actual Government as Applied Under American Conditions”

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• New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance.

  Andrew Cuomo

  New York, Down And, Upside Down

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• We've got a tax code that is encouraging flight of jobs and outsourcing. And that's why we've specifically recommended in this campaign that Congress change our tax code so that we stop giving tax breaks to companies that are moving to Mexico and China and other places, and start putting those tax breaks into companies that are investing here in the United States.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Moving, Giving

  Barack Obama and Alan Keyes Illinois Senate Debate hosted by Illinois Radio Network in the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois, www.keyesarchives.com. October 12, 2004.

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• If your biggest tax deduction was bail money, you might be a redneck.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Bail, Might

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• We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.

  John Sherman

  People, Tax Day, Paid

  John Sherman (1879). “Selected Speeches and Reports on Finance and Taxation, from 1859 to 1878”

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• Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles reach into almost every aspect of American life.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Income, Leviathan

  Ron Paul (2008). “Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property”, p.84, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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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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• Writing checks to the IRS that include strings of zeros does not bother me ... Overall, we feel extraordinarily lucky to have been dealt a hand in life that enables us to write large checks to the government rather than one requiring the government to regularly write checks to us-say, because we are disabled or unemployed.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Writing, Government

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• Taxes will eventually become a voluntary process, with the possible exception of real estate - the one physical thing that does not move easily and has computable value. The US has a jump-start on the practice, in that 65 percent of local school funds come from real estate taxes - a practice Europeans consider odd and ill advised. But wait until that's all there is left to tax, when the rest of the things we buy and sell come from everywhere, anywhere, and nowhere.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Business, Real, Moving

  "Taxing Taxes" by Nicholas Negroponte, www.wired.com. May 01, 1998.

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• Death and taxes are inevitable.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Inevitable

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• Taxes are the sinews of the state.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  States

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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”

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• 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”

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• Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Marriage, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

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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, Taxation

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

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• I bet that if you actually read the entire vastness of the U.S. Tax Code, you'd find at least one sex scene . . .

  Dave Barry

  Sex, Vastness, Scene

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• If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper-middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.

  Warren Buffett

  Cutting, Thinking, Class

  "Make more than $250k? Obama wants you to pay more in taxes, like it or not" by Ed Hornick, www.cnn.com. April 14, 2011.

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