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- The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes...
- Dave Barry (1947 - ), "Sweating Out Taxes"
- The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. 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.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- Tax reform means "Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax that fellow behind the tree."
- Russell Long
- Receiving a million dollars tax free will make you feel better than being flat broke and having a stomach ache.
- Dolph Sharp, "I'm O.K., You're Not So Hot"
- Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.
- F. J. Raymond
- Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
- Bill Veeck, Chicago White Sox
- 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.
- Arthur Godfrey
- Let's talk about how to fill out your 1984 tax return. Here's an often overlooked accounting technique that can save you thousands of dollars: For several days before you put it in the mail, carry your tax return around under your armpit. No IRS agent is going to want to spend hours poring over a sweat-stained document. So even if you owe money, you can put in for an enormous refund and the agent will probably give it to you, just to avoid an audit. What does he care? It's not his money.
- Dave Barry (1947 - ), "Sweating Out Taxes"
- I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes. I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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