Through the rantings of a cranky man, who has seen me get the taxes ready in time, for more years than I can remember, I finished. The nagging starts about two weeks before he has to go get them done. I ignore because I have them ready, state the fact and get ignored. Once again, I'm relaxing when the rant starts. "You know I go with the taxes tomorrow!!!!" Stating for the hundredth time, I hand him the folder, and say, "Done". He didn't say a word. Hence, some quotes about taxes. I hate April 15th and this year we're getting skinned.
1. The only difference between a taxman and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
-- Mark Twain
2. The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.
-- Milton Friedman
3. Worried about an IRS audit? Avoid what's called a red flag. That's something the IRS always looks for. For example, say you have some money left in your bank account after paying taxes. That's a red flag.
-- Jay Leno
4. It's income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and stab yourself in the aorta.
-- Dave Barry
5. 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.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
6. 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
7. Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
-- H. L. Mencken
8. [On completing tax returns].This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher
-- Albert Einstein
9. The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.
-- John S. Coleman
10. Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
-- Herman Wouk
11. America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
-- Dr. Laurence J. Peter
12. Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay.
-- Milton Friedman
13. The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
-- John Maynard Keynes
14. There is no such thing as a good tax.
-- Winston Churchill
15. The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
-- Will Rogers
16. When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
-- Plato
17. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein
18. To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
-- Benjamin Tucker
19. The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
-- Will Rogers
20. The taxpayer: that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn't have to take a civil service examination.
-- Ronald Reagan
Apr 05, 2011 @ 09:47:41
