277 Quotes About Taxes

By today’s standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum. His actual impact on their personal lives was trivial. He had arbitrary power over them in law and in principle but in fact it was seldom exercised. If you compare his rule with that of today’s U.S. Government you have to wonder why we celebrate our independence..

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

It's funny how so many think a redistribution of wealth is fine when it benefits the rich and creeping communism when it benefits the working class.

There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes.

They're so broke that they've actually cut essential services. In many places, they've cut policemen, because, who the fuck needs them? Or firemen, son of a bitch, it's much more fun watching something burn down.

Dreams are tax-free.

Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rich as what they are -- a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.

Its not get it from the 1% that is the correct $$ Grubbing answer to all budget solutions . . . its the 11% answer . . . . . If you took 111% from the Top 11% . . . you can only pay for 11% of everything the Democrats want to do . . . where do you think the rest is coming from . . . U !

Billionaires think that anything goes, are enamored of geoengineering, and detest nothing so much as simple but unpleasant solutions (such as paying taxes and living quietly).