Quotes About Taxes

When the rebels tried to get them to join the army, or pay extra taxes for the war, or at the very least sign a loyalty oath, the Mennonites just said no.

Tax Day is right up there with 'Root Canal Day' in terms of days that no one wants to celebrate.

Im proud to be a 50 per cent tax-payer, very proud of it.

My father was always not concerned about the wealth I have, but every year he would ask me, how much have you given in charity? And how much taxes have you paid?

A boatload of government money is indeed a gift. Unless, I suppose, you're one of the saps paying for the cargo.

Our enormous surplus revenues are illogical and oppressive.

Of course, in Jerusalem, "landed aristocracy" more or less meant the priestly class, and specifically, that handful of wealthy priestly families who maintained the Temple and who, as a result, were charged by Rome with collecting the taxes and tribute and keeping order among the increasingly restive population—tasks for which they were richly compensated.

as sure as death and as inescapable as taxes

Take up citizenship and the conversion it entailed, send a couple of your sons to the levy when they were of age, pay taxes calculated not to drive you and your family into penury or the mountains and the life of a bandit. Oh, and while you're at it, steer clear of debt and disease. Chances were — mostly — if you did all that, you'd never starve, never have your home burned down and your children raped before your eyes, never have to wear a slave collar.

Today I received a letter from the IRS. It appears they are notifying the State Department that I owe substantial taxes and that my passport should not be renewed!

It never ceased to amaze Skirata how much simpler it was to buy and sell death than it was to pay taxes.

I'm not sure," Callie said. "As you know, cats choose not to talk because they're afraid we'll make them pay taxes.

Kate had shot a man with a gun very similar to this one. She had been aiming for his chest and winged his shoulder, but as her people would say, closeness only counts in taxes and horseshoes.

Congress should know how to levy taxes, and if it doesn't know how to collect them, then a man is a fool to pay the taxes.

People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.

I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

They can't collect legal taxes from illegal money.

Save your money, pay your taxes, it doesn't last forever.

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.

Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money.

The government has no money of its own. It's all your money.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.