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| Den enda uppfinningsrika fiktionen som skrivs idag är skattedeklarationen. | Herman Wouk (1915-) |
| Då man använder inkomstskatt kommer den rättvisa mannen att betala mer, och den orättvisa mannen betala mindre av samma inkomst. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before. | Art Buchwald (1925-) |
| I hold in my hand 1,379 pages of tax simplification. | Delbert L. Latta |
| The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing | Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683) |
| Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them | Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949) |
| Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.' | Russell B. Long |
| The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor | William Cobbett (1763-1835) |
| He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer | William Proxmire (1915-) |
| The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. | Barry Goldwater (1909-1998) |
| Governments last only as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed | Bernard Berenson (1865-1959) |
| Taxation: how the sheep are shorn | Edward Abbey (1927-1989) |
| The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| The fundamental class division in any society is not between rich and poor, or between farmers and city dwellers, but between tax payers and tax consumers | David Boaz |
| 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 (1874-1965) |
| Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax. | Charles Franklin Kettering (1876-1958) |
| The 20th Century proved, if you were paying any attention, that taxation is the great enemy of civilization | Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949) |
| Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them | Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949) |
| He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer | William Proxmire (1915-) |
| There's a lot of evidence you can sell people on tax increases if they think it's an investment | Bill Clinton (1946-) |
| The tax collector must love poor people - he's creating so many of them | Bill Vaughn |
| "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 (1751-1836) |
| Taxes are equal, is a dogma which I'll prove at once," exclaimed a Tory boor; "Taxation hardly presses on the rich, And likewise presses hardly the poor | Art Buchwald (1925-) |
| Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before. | Art Buchwald (1925-) |
| Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces | Terry Pratchett (1948-) |
| The primary requisite for any new tax law is for it to exempt enough voters to win the next election | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. | Barry Goldwater (1909-1998) |
| All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people | Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) |
| The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns. | Herman Wouk (1915-) |
| Tariff: a scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation | Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) |
| For every benefit you receive a tax is levied. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders. | Thomas Sowell (1930-) |
| The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr. | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |