Subject: Government » Taxes

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game; you want us to pay income taxes, too?

(1914 – 1986) American baseball team owner & promoter

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Today it takes more brains and effort to make out the income tax form than it does to make the income.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

Income Tax: The entry fee for the rat race.

Taxation: The process by which money is collected from the people to pay the salaries of the men who do the collecting.

In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor

No taxation without regimentation.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

The wages of sin are unreported.

Taxes: A funding method which allows people to test their powers of deduction.

There is nothing more permanent than a temporary tax.

Government Bureau: Where the taxpayer’s shirt is kept.

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.

(1860 – 1917) Scottish politician & judge

The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

No One Likes Paying Taxes – What Makes You So Special?

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

(1927 – ) magician & comedy writer

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

(1959 – ) American comedian

Only the little people pay taxes.

(1920 – 2007) American billionaire businesswoman & real estate investor

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

(1883 – 1946) English economist

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least amount of hissing.

(1619 – 1683) French statesman

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist