"Don't steal. The government hates competition."
"Taxation WITH representation isn't so hot, either." - Anonymous"Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down." - Charles Adams
"Every time we talk about taxes we get to the idea of 'from each according to his capacity and to each according to his needs'. That's socialism. It's written into the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him." - T. Coleman Andrews, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 1956
"I have the deepest respect for the IRS, and for the thousands of fine men and women and Doberman pinschers who work there." - Dave Barry
"The government has been taking in so much of your money that EVEN CONGRESS is having a hard time spending it all. Not that Congress isn't trying! In fact, in recent years Congress, faced with the alarming buildup of your money, has come up with some truly creative things to spend it on." - Dave Barry
"Why can't Americans do their own taxes? Because the federal Tax Code is out of control, that's why. It's gigantic and insanely complex, and it gets worse all the time. Nobody has ever read the whole thing. IRS workers are afraid to go into the same ROOM with it... As a result, we have reached the point where even the IRS doesn't know what the Tax Code says. Last year, the Treasury Department discovered -- I am still not making this up -- that the IRS paid out more than $30 million to people who filed for the slavery tax credit. Yes! Thirty million dollars! Only guess what? It turns out there IS no slavery tax credit! Whoops!" - Dave Barry
"The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder." - Frédéric Bastiat
"A slave is just someone in the 100% tax bracket." - David Braginsky
"You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer." - Sir Winston Churchill
"Consider the psychosis revealed in the concept of "paying for" tax cuts. Tax cuts aren't something you pay for. It's less money for the government to spend. Hearing politicians tell us "we" can't "afford" a tax cut is like listening to a glutton tell you he can't "afford" a diet. In no other context do people talk about "paying for" money they don't have. I can't pay for your refusal to give me money because I need a yacht. But moreover, there are literally thousands of government programs. So it was nice of CBS' Schieffer to tell us which two we can't afford -- tax cuts and missile defense. Evidently, we still have boatloads of money to fund things like Christ in a jar of urine and the worthless Department of Education. We just can't afford to defend the country. Unless maybe, just maybe, if we raised taxes ..." - Ann Coulter
"When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes. There is perennially some sector of the economy Teddy Kennedy is longing to socialize and this, too, will require raising taxes." - Ann Coulter
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." - Albert Einstein
"So what you're saying is that taxes are nothing more than protection money that above-average income earners pay to the government in order to keep below-average income earners from going on a rampage. Interesting. Scary." - jmischel, plastic
"A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and all that is necessary to close the circle of our felicities." - Thomas Jefferson, 1801 inaugural address
"Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation." - Fletcher Knebel
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." - James Madison, 1792
"The taxpayer: that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination." - Ronald Reagan
"Thank goodness we don't get all the government we pay for." - Will Rogers
"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." - George Bernard Shaw
"I was working on a flat tax proposal and I accidentally proved there's no god." - Homer Simpson