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In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. -- Benjamin Franklin
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. -- H. L. Mencken
There is no such thing as a good tax. -- Winston Churchill
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. -- Calvin Coolidge
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. -- Laurence J. Peter
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. -- Barry Goldwater
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. -- John Maynard Keynes
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss. -- Robert A. Heinlein
If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation. -- Rush Limbaugh
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. -- Mark Twain
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. -- Will Rogers
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. -- Milton Friedman
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. -- Thomas Jefferson
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. -- Ronald Reagan
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
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. -- Plato
Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr. -- Will Rogers
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. -- Will Rogers
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. -- Winston Churchill
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
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. -- Thomas Paine
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
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
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans. -- Ron Paul
Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade. -- Bob Beauprez
Taxes are a penalty on progress. -- James Cook
Taxes are an investment in America. -- Bill Gates
Taxes are the sinews of the state. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Taxes are the killing fields of Democrats. -- Grover Norquist
Taxes cause the most bad business decisions. -- James Cook
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Taxes will always be lower under a Coalition government -- Tony Abbott
The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes. -- Benjamin Franklin
Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Taxes should be lower, flatter, and simpler, in that order. -- David Boaz
Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I come from Cuba. Taxes for me are no big thing. -- Tony Oliva
Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world. -- George Bernard Shaw
No Taxes. Let's just tip the government 15% if they do a good job. -- Pat Paulsen
Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual. -- Thomas Jefferson
Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform. -- Benjamin Franklin
These 3 topics will always generate 100+ comments of irrational/ridiculous people: Taxes, tipping, and spending on weddings. -- Ramit Sethi
Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence. -- Jonathan Ames
Here is my principle Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Taxes shouldn't be higher; they should be fairer. We must be a party that's disciplined. We must make tough choices. -- Vince Cable
Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil. -- Michael Bloomberg
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. -- Jill Lepore
One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes. -- Bernie Sanders
The thing generally raised on city land is taxes. -- Charles Dudley Warner
Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet. -- Bonnie Raitt
No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes. -- James Caan
The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength. -- George W. Bush
You can't ignore the reality that faith and family, those two things are integral parts of having limited government, lower taxes, and free societies. -- Rick Santorum
Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes. -- Jamais Cascio
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without. -- Albert Camus
The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes. -- Christopher Hitchens
Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible? -- Barry Goldwater
I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,' it's actually a 'false choice.' -- Scott Walker
As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan would be the largest tax cut in American history, reforming individual, business, and worker taxes. -- Rand Paul
Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen. -- Dalton Trumbo
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What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes. -- Robert Reich
Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash. -- Ruth Ann Minner
But, as environment minister, I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry, because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental protection at home and abroad if there are people in Germany with jobs and who pay taxes. -- Sigmar Gabriel
In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards, if we have benefits in taxes, royalties, jobs, we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources. -- Victor Ponta
They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I've done it, and there's consequences, but it can be done. Death you're not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it. -- Steve Earle
We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again. -- Marco Rubio
And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare. -- Mitt Romney
Ronald Reagan was long thought to be the most conservative of Republicans. And by any standard today he is the most popular Republican in modern history. Yet he raised taxes 11 times, supported a ban on assault rifles and the Brady Bill, which mandated background checks, and established amnesty for 3 million undocumented workers. -- Mark McKinnon
I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job. -- Bill Murray
I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot. -- Barack Obama
Pushers don't pay taxes. -- Big Daddy Kane
Read my lips-NO NEW TAXES! -- George H. W. Bush
I hate putting up taxes. -- James Callaghan
Death and taxes are inevitable. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
I pay tremendous numbers of taxes. -- Donald Trump
Cuttin' taxes for strippers and thugs. -- Ja Rule
Less government, less regulation, lower taxes. -- Grover Norquist
No one is patriotic about taxes. -- George Orwell
Read my lips: no new taxes. -- George H. W. Bush
I believe that all taxes are bad. -- Stephen Harper
We rule out raising taxes this year. -- Luis de Guindos
Religions take donations and don't pay taxes. -- Deepak Chopra
I didn't pay my taxes for years. -- Noam Chomsky
Democracy is mob rule with income taxes. -- Gloria Steinem
Raising taxes won't create private sector jobs. -- Marco Rubio
Opposing taxes is a key conservative value. -- Newt Gingrich
I have no intention of raising taxes -- William J. Clinton
The problem is that taxes aren't used efficiently. -- Mian Muhammad Mansha
It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally. -- Lindsey Graham
Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods. -- Ambrose Bierce
The rich support the poor primarily via taxes. -- Thomas Peterffy
Raised Arkansas taxes 5 times, but lowered taxes 94 times. -- Mike Huckabee
[Hillary Clinton] is going to raise taxes $1.3 trillion. -- Donald Trump
I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime. -- Thomas Peterffy
Eliminating business taxes makes US best at manufacturing. -- Jim DeMint
When taxes are too high, people go hungry. -- Laozi
Texans should not be taxed on our taxes. -- Kay Bailey Hutchison
You don't pay taxes - they take taxes. -- Chris Rock
First governor in Arkansas history to ever lower taxes. -- Mike Huckabee
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The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes. -- William Feather
Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten -- George Bramwell, 1st Baron Bramwell
The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary. -- David Hume
You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty. -- Jason Chaffetz
I don't like paying taxes, same as everybody else. -- Charles Payne
You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes. -- John Hoeven
The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today. -- William Lyon Mackenzie
Everyone who pays taxes has blood on their hands. -- Malachi Ritscher
I pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes. -- Donald Trump
We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers. -- Manuel Moroun
Just dying should not be a reason for taxes. -- Todd Akin
The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes. -- Peter De Vries
Everyone wants the rich to pay more in taxes. -- Michael Arrington
I'm not for raising taxes on anyone - period. -- Markwayne Mullin
Wouldn't propose new taxes, but won't pledge against taxes. -- Mike Huckabee
We don't pay taxes. The little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley

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