“The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.”
“Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax.”
“Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.”
“Patrick Henry railed against taxation without representation. He should see it with representation.”
“The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.”
“I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.”
“There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist -- the taxidermist leaves the hide.”
“Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.”
“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.”
“I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.”
“Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.”
“There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program -- your tax-dollar will go further.”
“Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents.”
“The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.”
“If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.”
“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.”
“I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as proud for half the money.”
“Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.”
“We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.”
“The taxpayer; that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn't have to take a civil service examination.”
“Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right he'll go to the poor house.”
“In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.”
“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.”
“In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.”
“There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.”
“Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.”
“The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms. Armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes.”
“Our tax law is a 1, 598-page hydra-headed monster and I'm going to attack and attack and attack until I have ironed out every fault in it.”
“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.”
“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.”