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“Writing checks to the IRS that include strings of zeros does not bother me ... Overall, we feel extraordinarily lucky to have been dealt a hand in life that enables us to write large checks to the government rather than one requiring the government to regularly write checks to us-say, because we are disabled or unemployed.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“Taxes will eventually become a voluntary process, with the possible exception of real estate - the one physical thing that does not move easily and has computable value. The US has a jump-start on the practice, in that 65 percent of local school funds come from real estate taxes - a practice Europeans consider odd and ill advised. But wait until that's all there is left to tax, when the rest of the things we buy and sell come from everywhere, anywhere, and nowhere.”

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Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

“Wall Street is being investigated, but they are not asleep while it's being done. You see where the Senate took that tax off the sales of stocks, didn't you? Saved 'em $48,000,000. Now, why don't somebody investigate the Senate and see who got to them to get that tax removed? That would be a real investigation.”

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Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

“The politicians say 'we' can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians.”

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Author:Steve Forbes

“Maybe we should be directing our anger elsewhere - like toward Wall Street. Why is it we never think of Big Business when we think of welfare recipients? Companies take more of our tax dollars, and in much more questionable ways, than do those who are trying to heat their apartments with a kerosene stove.”

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Author:Michael Moore

“The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.”

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Author:John Maynard Keynes

“If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.”

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Author:Dave Barry

“Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.”

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Author:Michael Bloomberg

“Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.”

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Book:Andy Warhol's exposures

Source: Andy Warhol's exposures

“I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.”

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Author:Allen West

“There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.”

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Author:Wernher von Braun

“The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.”

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

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”

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Author:Edmund Burke

“The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.”

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Author:Denis Healey

“We don't pay taxes. The little people pay taxes.”

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Author:Leona Helmsley

“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.”

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Author:Jean-Baptiste Colbert

“Would your reply possibly be this? Well, it all depends on what my tax rate will be on the gain you're saying we're going to make. If the taxes are too high, I would rather leave the money in my savings account, earning a quarter of 1 percent. Only in Grover Norquist's imagination does such a response exist.”

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Author:Warren Buffett