Tax Quotes
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"The trick is to stop thinking of it as 'your' money." (Tax Auditor)
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax!" (Albert Einstein)
"When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on
the same amount of income." (Plato)
"There are two distinct classes of men... those who pay taxes and those who
receive and live upon taxes." (Thomas Paine)
"The Government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support
of
Paul." (George Bernard Shaw)
"There is no art which one government sooner learns from another than that of
draining money from the pockets of the people." (Adam Smith)
"He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him
who
has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities." (Jean
Jacques Rousseau)
"Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten" (Lord
Bramwell)
"War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed
circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end. It has but one thing
certain, and that is to increase taxes." (Thomas Paine)
"In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice." (Voltaire)
"But in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes." (Benjamin Franklin)
"A taxpayer is someone who works for the federal government but who doesn't
have
to take a civil service examination." (Ronald Reagan)
"Does self assessment mean that Australia will becomes a land of untold
wealth?"
"There can be no doubt concerning the duty of each citizen to bear a part of
the
public expense. But the state on its part, insofar as it is charged with
protecting and promoting the common good of its citizens, is under an
obligation
to assess upon them only necessary levies, which are, furthermore,
proportionate
to their means." (Pius XII)
--
John H. Hoffmann
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"Besides learning to see, there is another art
to be learned - not to see what is not."
-- Maria Mitchell
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