Friday's Tax Quote - December 30, 2011

“The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.”

- Barry M. Goldwater

Friday's Tax Quote - December 23, 2011

“The sales tax seems to be more politically acceptable than the income tax.”

- Raymond C. Scheppach

Friday's Tax Quote - December 16, 2011

“Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Friday's Tax Quote - December 9, 2011

“I want to find out who this FICA guy is and how come he’s taking so much of my money.”

- Nick Kypreos

Friday's Tax Quote - December 2, 2011

“Politicians never accuse you of ‘greed’ for wanting other people’s money – only for wanting to keep your own money.”

- Joseph Sobran

Friday's Tax Quote - November 18, 2011

“We contend that for a nation to try and tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by its handle.”

- Winston Churchill

Friday's Tax Quote - November 11, 2011

“If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less, tax it.”

- Old Economic Adage

Friday's Tax Quote - November 4, 2011

“Abracadabra, thus we learn
The more you create, the less you earn.
The less you earn, the more you’re given,
The less you lead, the more you’re driven,
The more destroyed, the more they feed,
The more you pay, the more they need,
The more you earn, the less you keep,
And now I lay me down to sleep.
I pray the Lord my soul to take,
If the tax-collector hasn’t got it before I wake.”

- Ogden Nash

Friday's Tax Quote - October 28, 2011

“Every society makes choices as to the tax systems that not only raise the necessary revenues to support government expenditures, but within that choice are inherent reflections of societal values.  Not only does a society choose a tax system but the tax system becomes one of the basic institutions that in itself shapes and molds the society.”

- Karen M. Yeager

Friday's Tax Quote - October 21, 2011

“Count the day won when, turning on its axis,
This earth imposes no additional taxes.”

- Franklin P. Adams

Friday's Tax Quote - October 14, 2011

“We understandably hesitate to talk about law in explicitly moral terms.  But tax has unavoidable moral and political dimensions.”

- Edward J. McCaffery

Friday's Tax Quote - October 7, 2011

“I hate taxes
Taxes gonna break my back I swear
Don’t you know I paid a lot more than my share
You know I’m thinkin’ about movin’ somewhere else
But I can’t because I love America too much
Especially California
Yeah I guess I’m gonna have to pay these taxes
If I’m gonna live here.”

- Robert Cray (“1040 Blues”)

Friday's Tax Quote - September 30, 2011

“The tax man’s taken all my dough
And left me in this stately home
Lazing on a sunny afternoon
And I can’t even sail my yacht
He’s taken everything I’ve got
All I got’s this sunny afternoon.”

- Ray Davies (“Sunny Afternoon”)

Friday's Tax Quote - September 23, 2011

“What Mae West said about sex is true about taxes.  All tax cuts are good tax cuts; even bad tax cuts are good tax cuts.”

- Grover Norquist

Friday's Tax Quote - September 16, 2011

“Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten.

- Lord Bramwell

Friday's Tax Quote - September 9, 2011

“If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead – if you strike oil.”

- J. Paul Getty

Friday's Tax Quote - September 2, 2011

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

- Paula Poundstone

Friday's Tax Quote - August 26, 2011

“I thought at first that the power of taxation [given in the new Federal constitution] might have been limited.  A little reflection soon convinced me it ought not to be.”

- Thomas Jefferson

Friday's Tax Quote - August 19, 2011

“The expenses of government, having for their object the interest of all, should be borne by everyone, and the more a man enjoys the advantages of society, the more he ought to hold himself honored in contributing to those expenses.”

- Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

Friday's Tax Quote - August 12, 2011

“I think our tax system is not worthy of an advanced society.”

- Paul H. O’Neill