Taxes Quotes

He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent - Infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination - - And taxes.

H. E. Martz

Read my lips - - NO NEW TAXES!

George Herbert Walker Bush, Nov. 1988

Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.

Erving Goffman

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.

John Maynard Keynes

The avoidance of taxes is the only pursuit that carries any reward.

John Maynard Keynes

George Bush has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.

Bill Clinton, Democratic National Convention, July 16, 1992

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

H. L. Mencken

All zoos actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.

H. L. Mencken

But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

Gore Vidal

All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.

Jim Fiebig

Only the little people pay taxes.

Leona Helmsly

All zoos actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.

H. L. Mencken

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

John Maynard Keynes

They say that the wages of sin is death. But after taxes its just a tired feeling really.

Paula Poundstone, HBO stand - Up routine

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?

Bill Veeck, Chicago White Sox

Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.

Oliver Wendell Holmes