Tax Quotes

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. (Albert Einstein)
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. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
There is no such thing as a good tax. View quote
Winston Churchill
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. View quote
Gore Vidal
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. View quote
Jonathan Swift
The thing generally raised on city land is taxes. (Charles Dudley Warner)
The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes. View quote
Peter De Vries
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people. View quote
David Lloyd George
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. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds & because it tends to public economy. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. View quote
Edmund Burke
Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. View quote
Edith Sitwell
Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words abortion or tax cuts pass their lips. View quote
Ann Coulter
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. (Barry Goldwater)
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. View quote
Will Rogers
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. View quote
Herman Wouk
If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation - unfairly. View quote
Mario Cuomo
There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program: Your tax dollar will go farther. View quote
Wernher von Braun