Tax Quotes

  • The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
  • The politicians say “we” can’t afford a tax cut. Maybe we can’t afford the politicians.
  • Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody’s got to pay for them so they’re a necessary evil.
  • Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
  • A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
  • I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.
  • Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
  • We must care for each other more, and tax each other less.
  • It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.
  • This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher.
  • Taxes grow without rain.
  • It would be a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their income.
  • In the future they’ll be taxing you by the atom.
  • The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return.
  • Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
  • 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.
  • Everyone wants a more simple tax system. But if this means that certain tax breaks have to be cut, people are no longer so enthusiastic.
  • There’s an old saying that the government is your partner from birth, but they don’t get to come to all the meetings.
  • A corporation’s primary goal is to make money. Government’s primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
  • A person doesn’t know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.
  • Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.
  • I am thankful for the taxes I pay because it means that I’m employed.
  • Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten.
  • The power to tax is the power to destroy.
  • Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.
  • 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.
  • Fear is the tax which conscience pays to guilt.
  • Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax.
  • There may be liberty and justice for all, but there are tax breaks only for some.