At tax time, it helps to remember that if your tax obligation has increased from the previous year, it's usually because you're enjoying more income. That's a situation to which most of us aspire. Higher taxes are a price that we pay for greater success. - Richard Carlson
Don't get excited about a tax cut. It's like a mugger giving you back car fare. - Arnold H. Glasow
For patriots like me, paying taxes gives a feeling of responsibility, of being part of the fabric of our country, of contributing to the common good. - Joyce Marcel
If a government is to be prudent its taxes must produce ample revenues without discouraging enterprise; and if it is to be just it must distribute the burden of taxes equitably. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin. - Austin O’Malley
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. - Herman Wouk
Printing money is merely taxation in another form. Rather than robbing citizens of their money, government robs their money of its purchasing power. - Peter Schiff
Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Taxes are how we pool our money for public health and safety, infrastructure, research, and services – from the development of vaccines and the Internet to public schools and universities, transportation, courts, police, parks, and safe drinking water. - Holly Sklar
Taxes are like and unlike the rain, they fall upon the just and the unjust; most hardly upon the just because they will not resort to devious ways to escape the imposition. - Paul Carus
Taxes are simply contributions demanded of citizens as their share of the expenses of government. - Paul Leroy-Beaulieu
Taxes are the lifeblood of government and no taxpayer should be permitted to escape the payment of his just share of the burden of contributing thereto. - Arthur T. Vanderbilt
Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of squawking. - Jean Baptiste Colbert
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. - John Maynard Keyes
The best things in life are tax free. - Joseph Bonkowski
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. - Denis Healey
They can't collect legal taxes from illegal money. - Al Capone
When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government. - George Cleveland
When the super-rich use offshore tax havens to avoid paying what they owe in taxes, they're reneging on their duties as citizens. It seems only fair to me that the consequences of that kind of tax avoidance ought to be loss of citizenship. - Robert Reich
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