“A [tax loophole is] something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.”
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“Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten”
“Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.”
“No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.”
Source: Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America: Published in September, 1796
“Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.”
Source: The Portable Plato
“Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.”
“I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.”
Source: Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography
“Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6
“There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.”
Source: Individual liberty: selections from the writings of Benjamin R. Tucker
“What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.”
Source: Selected Writings of Thomas Paine
Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818
“Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.”
“Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.”
Source: Actual Government as Applied Under American Conditions
Source: Selected Speeches and Reports on Finance and Taxation, from 1859 to 1878