Quotes about Taxes

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money taxes, levied on land and otherwise, which are collected by government from the subjects.

"Death and taxes and childbirth.  There's never any convenient time for any of them."

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."

If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad, he should see how bad it is with representation.

Inflation is the one form of taxation which even the weakest government can enforce, when it can enforce nothing else.

Death and taxes may be certain, but we don't have to die every year.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end. It has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity.

Men who prefer any load of infamy, however great, to any pressure of taxation, however light.

By forcing state governments to absorb the financial burden of implementing a federal regulatory program, Members of Congress can take credit for "solving" problems without having to ask their constituents to pay for the solutions with higher federal taxes. And even when the States are not forced to absorb the costs of implementing a federal program, they are still put in the position of taking the blame for its burdensomeness and for its defects....Under the present law, for example, it will be the [law enforcement official] and not some federal official who stands between the gun purchaser and immediate possession of his gun. And it will likely be the [law enforcement official], not some federal official, who will be blamed for any error.

Regarding the Economy & Taxation: The record of economic success during the 1980's is clear: 18.6 million new jobs were created, increasing U.S. civilian employment by 20 percent. Only 12 percent of these jobs were in low-paid restaurant and retail areas, while 82 percent were in high-paid technical, managerial and professional areas. Once Reagan's tax cuts kicked in (fiscal year 1982), the country experienced 92 months of economic growth without a recession. This represented the longest period of sustained peacetime economic growth in American history. America's most successful achievers do pay a higher share of the total tax burden. The top one percent income earners paid 18 percent of the total tax burden in 1981, and paid 25 percent in 1991. The bottom 50 percent of income earners paid only 8 percent of the total tax burden, and paid only 5 percent in 1991. History shows that tax cuts have always resulted in improved economic growth producing more tax revenue in the treasury.

Regarding the Economy & Taxation: America's most successful achievers do pay a higher share of the total tax burden. The top one percent income earners paid 18 percent of the total tax burden in 1981, and paid 25 percent in 1991. The bottom 50 percent of income earners paid only 8 percent of the total tax burden, and paid only 5 percent in 1991. History shows that tax cuts have always resulted in improved economic growth producing more tax revenue in the treasury.

In Colma, a suburb of San Francisco, California there's a proposal pending to tax . . . the dead. If proponents get their way, grave sites will be taxed $5 dollars - per grave, per year - for eternity. In Colma the dead outnumber the living by a ratio of roughly 1000-to-1, including such notables as: Wyatt Earp, Levi Strauss, and William Randolph Hearst. And they, apparently, haven't paid their fair share. For liberals, when it comes to taxes . . . nothing is sacred.

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

I have learned as I have become older that worldly goods and things are of minor importance. One needs only sufficient food to sustain his body, a reasonable amount of clothing to wear, and sufficient comforts of home, and probably some money for entertainment, cultural things, church service, taxes, and traveling. The man with worldly riches cannot use more. He cannot wear two shirts comfortably at one time, nor can he eat two meals at one time. (Of course I know some who try.) I do not mean that one should cease trying to achieve; but what I am trying to say is that one should put first things first. The things of greater worth lie in the realm of the spiritual. They really constitute our eternal possessions of untold worth. Remember the admonition Jesus gave: Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust cloth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust cloth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Matthew 6 :19-21.

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never a convenient time for any of them.

In 1790, the nation which had fought taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.

We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.

Only the little people pay taxes.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.