Taxes

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund. –F. J. Raymond

Don’t tax you, don’t tax me, tax that man behind the tree. –Earl Long

Property taxes resemble a structure designed by a mad architect, erected on a shaky foundation by an incompetent builder, and made worse by the well-intentioned repair work of hordes of amateur tinkerers. –Frederick C. Stocker

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing. –Jean-Baptiste Colbert, minister of finance to Louis XIV

To state the provisions of the Alice Tax simply, which is the only way Alice allows them to be stated, it calls for this: after a certain level of income, the government would simply take everything. When Alice says confiscatory, she means confiscatory. –Calvin Trillin

If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven’t cut taxes enough. –Milton Friedman

If 10% is Good Enough for Jesus, It Oughta be Enough for Uncle Sam. –a Ray Stevens song title