Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude – not a punishment for making money.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common...

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it’s just sort of a tired feeling.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.

You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.

Lorsque la Spoliation est devenue le moyen d’existence d’une agglomération d’hommes unis entre eux par le lien social, ils se font bientôt une loi qui la sanctionne, une morale qui la glorifie.

In Venezuela Chavez has made the co-ops a top political priority, giving them first refusal on government contracts and offering them economic incentives to trade with one another. By 2006, there were roughly 100,000 co-operatives...

Swedish taxes are high, and we don’t get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren’t so good.

Yes here’s to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn’t want to pay taxes…

greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.

Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rich as what they are — a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to...

I love talking about taxes.

My brothers and sisters of America, there is not the least shadow of hope that India can ever be Christianised. After two hundred years of vain efforts and of spending millions of dollars with the...

Taxes and Texas—they have the same letters, but only one can go to hell.

No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.

… economists recognize that, other things equal, cuts in tax rates reduce tax revenues in percentage terms by less than the tax-rate reductions. Similarly, tax-rate increases do not raise tax revenues by as much in...

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life…The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road...

Failure to use tax money to finance things not liked by the taxpaying public is routinely called ‘censorship.’ If such terminology were used consistently, virtually all of life would be just one long, unending censorship,...

Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

That which we want less of in society should rarely be privatized and that which we want more of often should be.

What is life without death? That’s like asking what is peanut butter without jelly? Or a baseball game on TV and changing the channel? Or government without taxes? Actually, I like those last two.

A penny saved is worth two pennies earned . . . after taxes.

The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.

By today’s standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum. His actual impact on their personal lives was trivial. He...

Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don’t have to pay taxes – naturally, no one wants to...

wouldn’t you like to make sure all those millions you give to Uncle Sam went to schools and hospitals instead of nuclear warheads?’As a matter of fact, he would. Playgrounds for big kids, preschool programs...

The devil appears in many forms, but the most nefarious of all are tax forms.

You know if the U.S. Government wanted to boost the economy there’s a simple solution make Black Friday the refund date for your state and federal taxes

Tax is not a four-letter word; rather, it’s the price we pay for the country we want.

When your child is a little older, you can teach him about our tax system in a way that is easy to grasp. Offer him, say, $10 to mow the lawn. When he has mowed...

Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.

There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay...

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

A number of people who I’ve talked to about this assume that I got into a fight with the cops. (Because of, y’know, the militant politics.) I actually had an audience member come up to...

The hidden cost of frowning is the negative impact on the people around you, which results in diminished productivity in the workforce, and lost tax revenue for the city. Thus, frowns should be fined, and...

We’ve got this weird dysgenic situation where we’re basically just paying idiots to breed and taxing intelligent people to stay away from each other with anything remotely resembling fertility.

To provide an additional $50 billion in capital gains and dividend tax breaks over the next 10 years, while permitting many of these taxpayers to shirk their responsibility to pay their fair share of taxes...

Death, taxes and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them.

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.

Love takes many forms, but I’ll bet none of them are tax forms. I would work for the IRS, but I’m just not that romantic.

They’re so broke that they’ve actually cut essential services. In many places, they’ve cut policemen, because, who the fuck needs them? Or firemen, son of a bitch, it’s much more fun watching something burn down.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

So what if that one resident is shy? Do shy people not count as citizens? Do introverts not pay taxes?” You tried to claim that you were talking about population size and classifications on categories—nomenclature,...

Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.

You can’t fight a war in Iraq that’s costing upwards of $200 billion and rebuild New Orleans and try to deal with all of the other domestic needs that we have and then cut taxes...

Mr. Edwards admired the well-built, pleasant house and heartily enjoyed the good dinner. But he said he was going on West with the train when it pulled out. Pa could not persuade him to stay...