Quotes About Taxes

The notion that a company would give up on this nation to get a tax break isn't going to sit well with the American people.

Obama's IRS is not the IRS I've ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.

I used to say the wealthiest among us have to pay our fair share, which I still occasionally say. That's not dodging the word 'millionaire.'

He was getting to the point that he didn't understand why tax attorneys didn't just kill themselves.

The Jewish triple tithe—10 percent to priests and Levites, 10 percent for temple festivals, and 3 1/3 percent for the poor25—came on top of the sales taxes, customs, and annual tribute paid to the Roman government, much of which went to fund its vast military machine.

Meanwhile, dispersal starves the budgets of cities forced to spend sales tax dollars on roads, pipes, sewage, and services for the distant neighborhoods of sprawl, leaving little for the shared amenities that make central-city living attractive.

paying taxes is a cheap price for a quiet conscience—much cheaper than actually having to get involved in the lives of their fellow citizens.

This is yet another product of the immensely stupid notion of privatizing the proper functions of government, which is based on the colossally stupid notion that private industry is more honest and more efficient than the public sector, which is itself based on the transcendentally stupid decision by too many states that it is better to light their balls on fire than raise taxes in order to pay for anything anywhere at any time.

Did you ever notice: when you put the two words "The" and "IRS" together, it spells "THEIRS"?

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

You are going to need sales taxes, both Federal and State, income tax, and a lot of other kinds. It's a great country but you can't live in it for nothing.

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

But, sir, 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... Sir, if you would levy only taxes which in the opinion of everybody, or even of a majority, are not unequal and unjust, you would have such a tax law as I have never yet seen.

"Count that day won," he sings, "when, turning on its axis, this earth imposes no additional taxes."

IRS: We've got what it takes to take what you've got.

Abracadabra, thus we learn The more you create, the less you earn. The less you earn, the more you're given, The less you lead, the more you're driven, The more destroyed, the more they feed, The more you pay, the more they need, The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.

Taxes — wealth and waste laws and loopholes dollars and deficits rights and wrongs security and wars ceilings and floors

Well, the good old days with most of us was when we didn't earn enough to pay an income tax.

Slumber parties are inevitable, like death and income taxes. The only way to avoid them is not to have a teenage daughter.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

Daniel Shays, a farmer struggling to keep his property, convinced neighbors that Boston legislators were colluding with judges and lawyers to raise property taxes and foreclose when farmers found it impossible to pay.