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- 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
- 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)
- All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.
- Jim Fiebig
- All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: "Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?"
- Dave Barry (1947 - ), "Sweating Out Taxes"
- All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
- Joseph Wood Krutch (1893 - 1970)
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