Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
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 avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
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.
The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.
The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms. Armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes.
The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.
The tax collector must love poor people. He is creating so many of them.
The taxpayer; that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn't have to take a civil service examination.
The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.
There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program — your tax-dollar will go further.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
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