Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. – Frederic Bastiat
The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. – Will Rogers
The taxpayer; that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn't have to take a civil service examination. – Ronald Reagan
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. – Winston Churchill
It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for. – Will Rogers
I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.... – James Madison
I am proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as proud for half of the money. - Arthur Godfrey
Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay. – Milton Friedman
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. – Will Rogers
To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury. - Benjamin Tucker
The power of tax is not the power to destroy while this court sits... – Oliver Wendell Holmes, United States Supreme Court Justice, in Panhandle Oil Co. v. Mississippi ex rel. Knox
There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich and poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands. - Justice Learned Hand
It would be a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their income. – Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, 1758
You can talk about "social justice" all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get reelected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice. – Thomas Sowell
We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. – Ronald Reagan
The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys. – Thomas Jefferson, 1821
The most laughable White House criticism is that tax cuts are a 'free lunch.' The American people's work created that money. Only in Washington could there be a belief that letting people keep more of what they create is a giveaway. - Forbes, August 26, 1996
What does it mean when Republicans and Democrats alike warn us about the 'pain' involved in cutting government spending - in their spending less of our money? For the average citizen, what pain is there in his keeping more of his money to invest it the way he wants? Taxes cost people. Tax cuts do not cost government. - Theodore J. Forstmann, founding chairman, Empower America, as reported in Forbes, October 14, 1996
Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money --- only for wanting to keep your own money. - Joseph Sobran, (1946- ) American writer and editor. Formerly senior editor at National Review.
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