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The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. -- Will Rogers
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. -- Barry Goldwater
1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS. -- Ron Paul
I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank? -- Milton Berle
I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. -- Arthur C. Clarke
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. -- Plato
On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away. -- Tom Lehrer
You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart. -- David Rockefeller
I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday. -- Noel Coward
I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes. -- Barack Obama
gun registration is no more complex than the Income Tax system. -- Joe Jordan
Our Income Tax System is a disgrace to the human race. -- Jimmy Carter
The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds & because it tends to public economy. -- William E. Gladstone
The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate child, Federal Aid. -- Tom Anderson
There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income. -- Will Rogers
There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax! -- Nat King Cole
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. -- Herman Wouk
Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt. -- Fred Allen
Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits. -- Bernie Sanders
Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form -- Laurence J. Peter
Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax. -- Mike Royko
The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax. -- Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax. -- Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government. -- Mark Skousen
We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. -- Ronald Reagan
This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein
It's income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and stab yourself in the aorta -- Dave Barry
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive. -- Paul Ryan
Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders. -- Thomas Sowell
According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax. -- Bob Riley
No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax. -- Joe Biden
Small businesses are the backbone of job creation in South Carolina, but we're not maximizing our potential when we've got what's effectively the highest income tax rate in the Southeast holding us back. -- Mark Sanford
The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed. -- Alan Keyes
And what's interesting, and I don't think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that, one, most new jobs are created by small businesses; two, most small businesses pay tax at the individual income tax, or many small businesses pay tax there. -- George W. Bush
I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions. -- Harry Browne
In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible to have a relatively free and peaceful country. No income tax, no foreign wars, no welfare state, no intrusions on civil liberties. -- Harry Browne
Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country. -- Andrew Lloyd Webber
A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. -- Karl Marx
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In income tax, there is no case for amnesty. -- P. Chidambaram
When I started to pay income tax, I was 50 years old. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns. -- Herman Wouk
Stop policing the world and we can get rid of income tax. -- Ron Paul
Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant. -- Karl Lagerfeld
We've already donated to Haiti. It's called the U.S. income tax. -- Rush Limbaugh
I still believe a majority of Republicans are for income tax cuts. -- Mary Fallin
Yet, individuals and corporations in Puerto Rico pay no federal income tax. -- Dick Thornburgh
Get rid of IRS; get rid of income tax; get rid of spending. -- Ron Paul
Higher projected corporate and personal income tax receipts and lower public debt charges. -- Ralph Goodale
I love the Roth IRA. Tax-free income in retirement is a truly great deal. -- Suze Orman
The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime. -- Rex Stout
By the year 1982 the graduated income tax will have practically abolished major differences in wealth. -- Irwin Edman
China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders. -- Zhou Enlai
Long time ago when we were fab, back when income tax was all we had. -- George Harrison
There is no moral distinction between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax. -- Leonard Read
A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism. -- Karl Marx
The corporate income tax, in particular, is a tax that puts American corporations at a disadvantage. -- Ken Buck
The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds. -- Steven Rattner
I know everybody's income and what everybody earns, And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns -- W.S. Gilbert
The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution. -- G. Edward Griffin
A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill. -- Hans F. Sennholz
No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income. -- Ronald Reagan
Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want. -- Yuriy Tarnawsky
I have continuously said that, at the very minimum, the Bush tax cuts for income under $250,000 should be extended. -- Brad Schneider
When my mother makes out her income tax return every year, under occupation she writes, eroding my daughter's self-esteem. -- Robin Roberts
Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax. -- Bill Jenkins
I solemnly swear that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to the Queen when she pays her income tax -- Dennis Skinner
Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax. -- Bill Jenkins
We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes. -- Joe Scarborough
Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform. -- John Cornyn
65% of people say that cheating on your income tax is worse than cheating on your spouse. The other 35% were women. -- Jay Leno
We have undocumented immigrants in America who are paying more federal income tax than a billionaire. I find that just astonishing. -- Hillary Clinton
I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax. -- Michael Moore
There is some talk of lowering (the income tax), and they will have to. People are not making enough to pay it. -- Will Rogers
And my response is 70,000 people in the state of Maine that paid income tax in 2011 will not be paying income tax in 2012. -- Paul LePage
I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. I don't think the evidence supports that. -- Austan Goolsbee
The zero-income-tax-rate states have far faster growth in tax revenues than did the states with highest income tax rate over the same period. -- Arthur Laffer
Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues. -- Mike Pence
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I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax. -- Ann Richards
I could juggle anything in my day. Balls, cigar boxes, knives...But there was one thing I could never juggle. My income tax. -- W. C. Fields
Make no mistake, the point of cutting the personal income tax and the capital gains cut is to send an unmistakable message to business. -- Bill Richardson
This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form) -- Albert Einstein
I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax. -- Pete Seeger
Higher energy prices act like a tax. They reduce the disposable income people have available for other things after they've paid their energy bills. -- John W. Snow
Contrary to the myth that Mr. Bush cut taxes only for the wealthy, the 2001 tax cut reduced taxes for every income-tax payer in the country. -- Ari Fleischer
For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don't have to pay income tax that day because they're not working. -- Jesse Ventura
We ought to thank President Bush. He made it a lot easier for people to do taxes this year. No job, no income tax this year. -- Jay Leno
I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates. -- Adam Hasner
I've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ people. -- Ken Livingstone
Tax expenditures for middle- and working-class Americans - like the earned income tax credit - aren't thought of as loopholes; they're just thought of as benefits. -- Alex Pareene
I think that Governor Romney operates on the capital gains tax, his investments, what he lives off of instead of doing it off of his income. -- Allen West
While tax refunds amount to substantial income for many Americans, current IRS rules do not allow taxpayers to directly deposit their refund into more than one account. -- Jim Cooper
It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system. -- Robert W. Welch, Jr.
Let me tell you, the heart of my tax proposal: I will not raise taxes on the American people. I will not raise taxes on middle-income Americans. -- Mitt Romney
I will promote savings and investment by maintaining the 15% rate on capital gains and dividends. I will eliminate the tax entirely for those with annual income below $200,000. -- Mitt Romney
In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federal income tax return. This includes individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations. -- Virgil Goode
There are people who enjoy the life in England but don't pay a penny in tax, whereas my footballers pay more than half their income in tax. -- Gordon Taylor
Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year. -- William Weld
The income tax was devised to give lawyers and certified public accountants business. Few persons can make head, tail, or middle out of it. Einstein admitted he couldn't. -- W. C. Fields
Sadly, this is the same old Republican story of Robin Hood in reverse - tax cuts for the rich while programs for average and low income Americans suffer. -- Jose Serrano
I can't imagine an argument that says that raising marginal tax rates on high income people, many of whom are business owners, is a recipe for economic growth. -- Glenn Hubbard
In Greece, Italy and, to a lesser extent, France, unsustainable tax cuts and spending sprees added to households' estimates of their private wealth relative to their wage income. -- Edmund Phelps
All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says. -- Walter Wriston
I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in . . . a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, . . . increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Tax laws favor capital over labor, giving capital gains a lower rate than ordinary income. The rich get humongous mortgage interest deductions while renters get no deduction at all. -- Robert Reich
We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes in strange ways sex crimes, black masses. -- Terence Fisher
We vetoed five income tax increases during my time as governor. We cut business taxes $2.3 billion, and we cut regulation by one-third of what my predecessor put in place. -- Chris Christie
Income tax in particular in the United States is concentrated on the top half of the income distribution, and very heavily skewed towards the top 10 or even top 1 percent. -- Judy Woodruff
By the way, when I say cut taxes, I don't mean fiddle with the code. I mean abolish the income tax and the IRS, and replace them with nothing. -- Ron Paul
While the wealthiest families completely benefit from the tax cuts targeted towards the upper brackets, middle-income families were hit with the unwelcome surprise of higher taxes on tax day. -- Tim Bishop
Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax. -- Gary Johnson
I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art. -- Corita Kent
Could America exist without an income tax? The idea seems radical, yet in truth America did just fine without a federal income tax for the first 126 years of her history. -- Ron Paul
I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush. -- Jerry Falwell
I favor the abolition of all Social Security, Medicare and estate taxes. In their place, we should create a simple income tax system that has no deductions or credits at all. -- Ari Fleischer

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