The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
The power to tax involves the power to destroy.
- Former Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall
(Quoted in National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform, Unleashing America's Potential, January 1996 p 8.)
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories, in tax-sold farms, and in hordes of hungry people tramping streets and seeking jobs in vain.
- Franklin Roosevelt
In Pittsburgh, Oct. 19, 1932
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward."
- John Maynard Keynes
(The Income Tax) has made more liars out of the American people than golf.
- Will Rogers
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