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

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

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.

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 art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.

Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax.

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.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

Only little people pay taxes.

The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.

The taxpayer; that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn't have to take a civil service examination.

The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

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

It's getting so that children have to be educated to realize that "Damn" and "Taxes: are two separate words.

Taxes and golf are alike, you drive your heart out for the green, and then end up in the hole.

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