Browsing Topic Best Tax Day Quotes

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

There’s no such thing as a good tax.

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.

A person doesn’t know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.

This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

The best things in life are free – and $19.95.

Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.

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

Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

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

You don’t pay taxes – they take taxes.

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.

There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.

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.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

I’m spending a year dead for tax reasons.

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.

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

Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

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

No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.

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

The United States has a system of taxation by confession

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.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

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.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

Worried about an IRS audit? Avoid what’s called a red flag. That’s something the IRS always looks for. For example, say you have some money left in your bank account after paying taxes. That’s a red flag

The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.