Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized. ~Albert Bushnell Hart
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. ~Denis Healey
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. ~Mark Skousen
Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund. ~F.J. Raymond
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. 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
The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away. ~John S. Coleman
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. ~Thomas Jefferson
This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher, when asked about completing his income tax form. ~Albert Einstein
Tax rates should never be raised in some brackets without being raised in all brackets. ~Bradley A. Smith
The power to tax is the power to destroy. ~John Marshall
What people really want is fairness. They want people paying their fair share of taxes. ~Barack Obama
You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion. ~George P. Shultz
The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government. ~James Madison
Tax reform means, don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree. ~Russell Long
It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for. ~Will Rogers
The problem is not that the people are taxed too little. The problem is that government spends too much. ~Ronald Reagan
What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue. ~Thomas Paine
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. ~Calvin Coolidge
You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes. ~Ronald Reagan
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
The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax. ~Thomas Dewar
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. ~Mark Twain
The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose. ~William Simon
One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government. ~Ron Paul
I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money. ~Arthur Godfrey
Every culture has some ritual for joining two people together and making them stay that way, and ours is giving tax breaks. ~Bauvard
The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers. ~Rand Paul
Taxation with representation ain't so hot either. ~Gerald Barzan
When there's a single thief, it's robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation. ~Vanya Cohen
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. ~Herman Wouk
If the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, how he must hate the taxpayer! ~John Andrew Holmes
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
Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income. ~Alfred E. Neuman
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. ~Paula Poundstone
No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity. ~Rush Limbaugh
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
I am thankful for the taxes I pay because it means that I'm employed. ~Nancie J. Carmody
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. ~Albert Einstein
Taxation without representation is tyranny. ~James Otis
The taxpayer, that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. ~Ronald Reagan
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. ~Winston Churchill
Capital punishment: The income tax. ~Jeff Hayes
Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces. ~Terry Pratchett
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
There may be liberty and justice for all, but there are tax breaks only for some. ~Martin Sullivan
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. ~Barry Goldwater
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation. ~John Marshall
Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing. ~Jean Baptist Colbert
You must pay taxes. But there's no law that says you gotta leave a tip. ~Morgan Stanley
