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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents.
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There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program -- your tax-dollar will go further.
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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Read my lips: no new taxes.
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It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
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There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist -- the taxidermist leaves the hide.
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No statesmen ever will find it worth his pains, to tax our labor and excise our brain.
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Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right he'll go to the poor house.
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Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
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The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.
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I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age -- which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.
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Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax.
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All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.
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The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
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Every advantage has its tax.
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We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.
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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
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Income tax time is when you test your powers of deduction.
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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.
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The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
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We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.
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Only little people pay taxes.
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When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. -- they'll find something.
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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
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Our tax law is a 1, 598-page hydra-headed monster and I'm going to attack and attack and attack until I have ironed out every fault in it.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.
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The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.
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Patrick Henry railed against taxation without representation. He should see it with representation.
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The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.
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If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.
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No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.
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The power to tax is the power to destroy.
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Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
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Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!
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In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
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No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.
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Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.
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Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.
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The taxpayer; that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn't have to take a civil service examination.
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Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf.
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The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
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The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
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The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. 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.
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Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you do not know when it is through if you are a crook or a martyr.
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Taxes, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
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No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.
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A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
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The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms. Armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes.
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I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
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If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
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In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
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I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.
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I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.
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A fool and his money are soon parted. The rest of us wait for tax time.
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It is getting harder and harder to support the government in the style to which it has become accustomed.
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It's getting so that children have to be educated to realize that Damn and Taxes: are two separate words.
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Of all our natural resources, the first one to be exhausted may be the taxpayer.
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Taxes and golf are alike, you drive your heart out for the green, and then end up in the hole.
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Today's dime is really a dollar with all the taxes deducted.
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The tax collector must love poor people. He is creating so many of them.
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In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
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The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
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