Tax, Taxation, taxes & taxing Money Quotes
"[The Internal Revenue Code is] about 10 times the size of the Bible and, unlike the Bible, contains no good news" -- Don Nickles
"If the IRS took 100 taxpayers at random and sent each an incorrect notice that they owed an extra $92.35 in taxes and interest, more than two-thirds would probably just send in a check without investigating further" -- G. Guttman
"I love America, but I can't spend the whole year here. I can't afford the taxes" -- Mick Jagger
"Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose you more money than any single person in your life, with the possible exception of your kids" -- Harvey Mackay
"I wouldn't mind paying taxes… if I knew they were going to a friendly country" -- Dick Gregory
"The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs: in the hands of the working men and working women who earned it in the first place" -- Robert Dole
"I like to pay taxes. It is purchasing civilization" -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged" -- Roger Jones
"The taxpayer: that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn't have to take a civil service examination" -- Ronald Reagan
"And to you taxpayers out there, let me say this: Make sure you file your tax return on time! And remember that, even though income taxes can be a 'pain in the neck,' the folks at the IRS are regular people just like you, except that they can destroy your life" -- Dave Barry
"The United States has a system of taxation by confession" -- Hugo Black
"Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form" -- Laurence J. Peter
"Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society" -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"When there's a single thief, it's robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation" -- Vanya Cohen
"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
"Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others" -- Oscar Wilde
"The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them" -- Bill Vaughan
"The term 'tax humor' is no doubt an oxymoron to many people; to the more cynical, it is an apt description of the entire tax code" -- John F. Iekel
"Earlier today, the White House released President Bush's tax return. Not surprisingly, under dependents, the president listed Iraq" -- Conan O'Brien
"[A tax loophole is] something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform" -- Russell B. Long
"Taxation: how the sheep are shorn" -- Edward Abbey
"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale" -- Arthur C. Clarke
"Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten" -- Lord Bramwell
"The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets" -- Will Rogers
"Worried about an IRS audit? Avoid what's called a red flag. That's something the IRS always looks for. For example, say you have some money left in your bank account after paying taxes. That's a red flag" -- Jay Leno
"The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes" -- Milton Friedman
"Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay" -- Milton Friedman
"How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?" -- Will Rogers
"Income taxes have made more liars out of the American people than golf" -- Will Rogers
"The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward" -- John Maynard Keynes
"Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands" -- Judge Learned Hand
"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery" -- Calvin Coolidge
"No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil" -- Calvin Coolidge
"Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before" -- Art Buchwald
"Short term, the most important thing is to put people back to work ... If they're working, that means they're paying taxes, that means that they're buying goods and services - and the economy, instead of being on a downward spiral, starts back up on an upward spiral." -- Barack Obama
"I think that we've had an economy that's been out of balance for too long. So the general principle of raising taxes on higher income Americans, like myself, and providing relief to those who haven't benefited as much from this new global economy, I think is a sound one." -- Barack Obama
"I will eliminate capital-gains taxes for the small businesses and the startups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow" -- Barack Obama
"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
"The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both" -- James Dale Davidson
"Tax deductible, That's what you are: Tax deductible. Just like my car, like a gift to local charity, you give my 1040 clarity" -- Steven Zelin, the singing CPA to the tune of Nat King Cole's "Unforgettable"
"Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten." -- Lord Bramwell
"If the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, how he must hate the taxpayer!" -- John Andrew Holmes
"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 tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today." -- Herman Wouk
"America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation." -- Dr. Laurence J. Peter
"You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart." -- David Rockefeller
"Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax." -- Charles F. Kettering
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." -- Albert Einstein
"The rich hire lawyers and accountants for a reason - to pass the tax bill on to you." -- George W. Bush
"The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling." -- Paula Poundstone
"War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end. It has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes." -- Thomas Paine
"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing." -- Jean-Baptiste Colbert
"People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income." -- Robert Half
