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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.
Oct 2, 2025
Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.
The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.
I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.
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
No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.
The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ.
There's no such thing as a good tax.
What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
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
This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.
The politicians say 'we' can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians.
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute.
Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
The United States has a system of taxation by confession
Tax day was yesterday. And marijuana growers are complaining that they can't write off a single expense thanks to federal laws. Well, apparently someone tried to claim the Phish tour as his home office and that's not going to happen.
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.
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
Last time I looked at a [pay]check, I said to myself, 'Who the hell is FICA? And when I meet him, I'm going to punch him in the face. Oh my God, FICA is killing me.'
There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.
The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card. A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here.
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.
We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
A [tax loophole is] something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
The best things in life are free - and $19.95.
The best things in life are free
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.
It's April 15, tax day. The federal tax code is over 74,000 pages long. But stick with it because after page 72,000, it gets really good.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
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
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.
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.