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

“When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise them. That's statesmanship of the highest order.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch the mass exodus.”

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Author:Walter E. Williams

“The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]”

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Author:Juvenal

“Is money money or isn't money money. Everybody who earns it and spends it every day in order to live knows that money is money, anybody who votes it to be gathered in as taxes knows money is not money. That is what makes everybody go crazy.... When you earn money and spend money every day anybody can know the difference between a million and three. But when you vote money away there really is not any difference between a million and three.”

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Author:Gertrude Stein

“People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election.”

“We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what we were up to.”

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Author:Grover Norquist

“Standardized tests are an indicator of the kind of service taxpayers are receiving - and whether schools, educators and policymakers are doing their jobs. In the United States, taxpayers spend almost $600 billion annually on public education, so it's not unreasonable to ask what all that money is producing. In fact, it's irresponsible not to know.”

“Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.”

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Author:Cecily McMillan

“The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card. A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here.”

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Author:Steve Forbes

“I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.”

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Author:James Brown

“I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.”

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Author:Douglas Adams

“More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.”

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Author:Robert Orben

“War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.”

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Author:Thomas Paine

“I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?”

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Author:Milton Berle