"the hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax"
albert einstein
"what the government gives it must first take away"
johns coleman
"today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income"
alfred e .neuman
"next to being shot at and missed nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund"
f . j . raymond
"tax complexity itself is a kind of tax"
max baucus
"reducing the tax burden is neccessary to produce economic growth"
bob schaffer
"taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors"
franklin d roosevelt
"in this world nothing can be said to certain except death and taxes"
benjamin fraklin
"we have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes non work"
milton friedman
"taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized"
albert bushnell hart
"paying tax is not a punishment it's a responsibility"
chris matthews
"a fine is a tax for doing something wrong. a tax is a fine for doing something right"
anonymous
"the income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government"
barry goldwater
"some tax payers close their eyes, some stop their ears, some shut their mouths but all pay through the nose"
evan esar
"collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery"
calvin coolidge
"the best things in life are free, but sooner or later the government will find a way to tax them"
anonymous
"in levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin"
austin o'malley
"taxation without representation is tyranny"
john grisham
"you don't pay taxes they take taxes"
chris rock
"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"
ronald reagan
"it's a game. we tax lawyers teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich and the irs keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them"
john grisham
"no government can exist without taxation. this money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress"
frederick the great
"the power to tax is the power to destroy"
john marshall
"the hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax"
albert einstein
"the difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall"
denis healey