Taxes And Taxation

(23 votes)   Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents.

Peg Bracken
American Author of ''The I Hate to Cook Book''

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(155 votes)   No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.

American Proverbs
Sayings of American Origin

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(130 votes)   Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you do not know when it is through if you are a crook or a martyr.

Will Rogers
1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor

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(129 votes)   The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

Will Rogers
1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor

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(126 votes)   A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(118 votes)   The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms. Armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus
55-117 AD, Roman Historian

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(115 votes)   No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.

John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist

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(112 votes)   The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. 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
1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor

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(105 votes)   Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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(97 votes)   I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(97 votes)   There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program -- your tax-dollar will go further.

Wernher Von Braun
1912-1977, German Rocket Pioneer

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(92 votes)   Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!

Margaret Mitchell
1900-1949, American Novelist

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(89 votes)   We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(88 votes)   Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(82 votes)   I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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