277 Quotes About Taxes

Is this Paradise?''I can guarantee you that it isn't,' Jubal assured him. 'My taxes are due this week.

Tax is not a four-letter word; rather, it's the price we pay for the country we want.

For example, under the Articles of Confederation, the national government could not tax people directly, as we do today, but must ask for money from the states, which could raise it however they wanted.

Taxpayers are justified in protesting for their rights, since they have first fulfilled their duty of paying taxes.

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

Altogether, humankind had spread over less than one-eighth of the galaxy. Expansion was somewhat self-limiting. The U.S. had not been able to hold a colony at two hundred light-years distance. At fifteen hundred light-years, most nations could consider their colonies temporary holdings. Any people it took you two months to reach were not going to pay your taxes or obey your laws. That was human nature. - Wolf Star, Tour of the Merrimack #2

As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.

It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.