Of the two, I think I prefer death. At least it only comes once.
If an election were held on April 16, I bet everyone would vote for a flat tax.
Those are my thoughts. So you can guess what I'm doing today. And now a few famous tax quotes:
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?
---- Peg Bracken
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
Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.
---- Alfred E. Neuman
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
---- Ronald Reagan
Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.
---- Margaret Mitchell
It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling.
---- Bert Murray
Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.
---- F. J. Raymond
It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.
---- Will Rogers
Optimist: Someone who sets aside two hours to do his income tax return.
---- Unknown
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
---- Dr. Laurence J. Peter
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
I wouldn't mind paying taxes… if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
---- Dick Gregory
If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.
---- Rush Limbaugh
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
---- Will Rogers
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
---- Plato
The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
---- Will Rogers
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
---- Robert A. Heinlein
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
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
---- G. Gordon Liddy
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
---- Barry Goldwater
There's nothing wrong with the younger generation that becoming taxpayers won't cure.
---- Dan Bennett
Isn't it appropriate that the month of the tax begins with April Fool's Day and ends with cries of 'May Day!'?
---- Rob Knauerhase
It would be a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their income.
---- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
---- Will Rogers
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
---- H. L. Mencken
The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.
---- John s. Coleman
What a great collection of quotes!
ReplyDeleteSorry you are spending your time in such a way. No fun. We have finally had to have an expert do ours.
ReplyDeleteI may regret not having a CPA do ours this year, but he is so busy that if we don't get them to him by the first of March, he files an extension, and I don't want to do that again.
DeleteWatching Idol and doing our taxes!!!! Time for bed, I'm beat!!!
ReplyDeleteI started ours last night, so I'm right there with you. Next year I'm thinking its time to find a CPA. I'm an educated person, but that doesn't seem to help when it comes to taxes.
ReplyDeleteOur accountant just called to say our taxes are done. Normally I really hate them but, this year, for the first time in so long we get a refund so I am not going to complain too much :)
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