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The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -
Albert Einstein
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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. -
Ronald Reagan
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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. -
Henry David Thoreau
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We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes. -
Leona Helmsley
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When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. -- they'll find something. -
Doug Horton
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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. -
Andrew Jackson
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. -
John Maynard Keynes
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The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty. -
Stephen King
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Patrick Henry railed against taxation without representation. He should see it with representation. -
Saul Landau
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Today's dime is really a dollar with all the taxes deducted. -
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If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation. -
Rush Limbaugh
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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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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. -
Karl Marx
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. -
H L Mencken
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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. -
Alexis De Tocqueville
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I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them. -
Mark Twain
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