Subject: Government » Taxes (Page 3)

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

(1918 – 2007) American humor writer

Taxpayer: One who doesn’t have to pass a civil service exam to work for the government.

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

The wages of sin are unreported.

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

businessman

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

The rich aren’t like us… they pay less taxes.

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

The wages of sin are unreported.

When there’s a single thief, it's robbery; when there are a thousand thieves, it’s taxation.

I think that after the third marriage Georgie tried to claim his divorce attorney as a dependent.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

As long as you are a tax deduction, you will always be safe in my house.

(1961 – ) American comedian, actor & talk show host

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

The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.

(1927 – 2000) American businessman & Secretary of Treasury

Where there's a will, there's an inheritance tax.

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

Income Tax: The entry fee for the rat race.

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

No taxation without regimentation.

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

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

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

Logic and taxation are not always the best of friends.

(1862 – 1946) American jurist & Supreme Court justice

The most undesirable things are the most certain (death and taxes).