Taxes Quotes

“A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.”
― Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine

“The government you elect is the government you deserve.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

“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

“Just tell 'em you're gonna soak the fat boys and forget the rest of the tax stuff...Willie, make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em mad, even mad at you. Stir them up and they'll love it and come back for more, but, for heaven's sakes, don't try to improve their minds.”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

“My feeling is this whole country is founded on the principle of 'if you are not hurting anyone, and you're not fucking with someone else's shit, and you are paying your taxes, you should be able to just do what you want to do.' It's the freedom and the independence.”
― Adam Carolla

“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.”
― John Marshall

“Julia's unhappy relationship with the Inland Revenue was due to her omission, during four years of modestly successful practice at the Bar, to pay any income tax. The truth is, I think, that she did not, in her heart of hearts, really believe in income tax. It was a subject which she had studied for examinations and on which she had thereafter advised a number of clients: she naturally did not suppose, in these circumstances, that it had anything to do with real life.”
― Sarah Caudwell, Thus Was Adonis Murdered

“Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...”
― David Mazzucchelli, Asterios Polyp

“I, my own damn self, am not a Tea Party supporter. I disagree with them on social liberties, our overseas wars, Obama's birthplace, Sarah Palin, and the conspicuous absence of tea at their rallies.”
― Penn Jillette, God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales

“Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness... but only when you pay your taxes? That means your freedom is rented, leased, & not unalienable.”
― Steve Maraboli

“There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes.”
― Ragnar Tornquist

“A penny saved is worth two pennies earned . . . after taxes. ”
― Randy Thurman

“The taxpayer is the new permanent underclass.”
― Andrew Wilkow

“Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.”
― Eileen Wilks, Death Magic

“All things built with tax money are beautiful: so we must think or go mad.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, In the Night Garden

“This is the history of governments, - one man does something which is to bind another. A man who cannot be acquainted with me, taxes me; looking from afar at me, ordains that a part of my labour shall go to this or that whimsical end, not as I, but as he happens to fancy. Behold the consequence. Of all debts, men are least willing to pay the taxes. What a satire is this on government! Everywhere they think they get their money's worth, except for these. Hence, the less government we have, the better, - the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy; the appearance of the wise man, of whom the existing government, is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation. That which all things tend to educe, which freedom, cultivation, intercourse, revolutions, go to form and deliver, is character; that is the end of nature, to reach unto this coronation of her king. To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of character makes the State unnecessary. The wise man is the State. He needs no army, fort, or navy, - he loves men too well; no bribe, or feast, or palace, to draw friends to him; no vantage ground, no favourable circumstance. He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is a prophet; no statute book, for he has the lawgiver; no money, for he is value; no road, for he is at home where he is; no experience, for the life of the creator shoots through him, and looks from his eyes. He has no personal friends, for he who has the spell to draw the prayer and piety of all men unto him, needs not husband and educate a few, to share with him a select and poetic life. His relation to men is angelic; his memory is myrrh to them; his presence, frankincense and flowers.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Death and taxes in life are certain, knowing how to pay only your fair share is third.”
― Yvette D. Best, Maximizing Your Tax Refund: 35 Sure-Fire Ways to Get More from Your Return NOW!

“Let your voice be heard, whether or not it is to the taste of every
jack-in-office who may be obstructing the traffic. By all means, render unto
Caesar that which is Caesar's -- but this does not necessarily include
everything that he says is his.”
― Denis Johnston

“So you and the lovely Agent Scully are going down to investigate?' Frohike said, sounding hopeful.
'Yeah, we leave for Cancun tomorrow.'
'Our tax dollars at work,' Langly snorted.
'I'd love to see Agent Scully with a healthy tropical tan,' Frohike said.
'Down, Frohike,' Mulder said.”
― Kevin J. Anderson, Ruins

“Even taxpayers have rights!”
― Beric J. Croome, Taxpayers' Rights in South Africa

“Tax is not a four-letter word; rather, it's the price we pay for the country we want.”
― Alex Himelfarb, Tax Is Not a Four-Letter Word: A Different Take on Taxes in Canada

“„Eine Regierung muss sparsam sein, weil das Geld, das sie erhält, aus dem Blut und Schweiß ihres Volkes stammt. Es ist gerecht, dass jeder einzelne dazu beiträgt, die Ausgaben des Staates tragen zu helfen. Aber es ist nicht gerecht, dass er die Hälfte seines jährlichen Einkommens mit dem Staate teilen muss.”
― Friedrich der große, Zeitlose Weisheiten des Preußenkönigs

“One who does a thing in order to avoid a monetary penalty does not agree; he yields to compulsion precisely the same as though he did so to avoid a term in jail."

[Justice George Sutherland, in the majority opinion for the Carter Coal case]”
― George Sutherland

“Pay taxes as required: Make timely payments of all taxes due, including income taxes, payroll taxes, and sales taxes.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

“File taxes on time: Meet all tax filing deadlines, including annual returns and quarterly payments, to avoid penalties and interest.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

“Stay up-to-date on tax laws and regulations: Regularly review changes to tax laws and regulations to ensure your business is compliant.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

“Classify workers correctly: Ensure you correctly classify workers as employees or independent contractors to avoid misclassification penalties.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.

“the drawing up of false accounts by capitalist enterprises coupled with the corruption of state officials makes it possible for monopolists to conceal the real amount of their profits and to evade payment of a considerable part of taxes. That which they must pay, they recover from the mass of people by various means (for instance, by increasing prices, rents, etc.). Finally the mechanism of taxation is used also for the extraction of a considerable part of the profits of the small and medium capitalists”
― A. Alekseyev, The Basic Economic Law of Modern Capitalism