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TAX-QUOTE-OF-THE-DAY
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1
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People who complain about taxes
can
be divided into two classes: men and women.
- Unknown
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2
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Income tax returns:
the most imaginative fiction written today.
- Herman Wouk
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3
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Death and taxes may
be certain, but we don't have to die every year.
- Unknown
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4
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The tax which will be
paid for education is not more than the thousand part of what will be paid
if we leave the people in ignorance.
- Thomas Jefferson
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5
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The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once
you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but
don't have to pay taxes - naturally, nobody
wants to live any other way.
- Judith Martin
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6
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The art of taxation consists
in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with
the least amount of hissing.
- Jean Baptiste Colbert
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7
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It used to be that death and taxes
alone
were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling.
- Bert Murray
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8
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There's nothing wrong with the younger generation
that becoming taxpayers won't cure.
- Dan Bennett
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9
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Why does a slight tax increase
cost you $200 and a substantial tax cut save
you 30 cents?
- Peg Bracken
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10
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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.
- Art Buckwald
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11
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There is a difference between a tax
collector
and a taxidermist -- the taxidermist leaves the hide.
- Mortimer Caplan
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12
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The trouble with an income-tax
reduction
is that it will stimulate business just enough to put everybody in a higher
tax
bracket.
- Harold Coffin
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13
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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 B. Colbert
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14
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If Patrick Henry thought that taxation
without
representation was bad, he should see how bad it is with representation.
- Farmer's Almanac
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15
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Internal Revenue Service:
The world's most successful mail-order business.
- Bob Goddard
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16
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I wouldn't mind paying taxes
--
if I knew they were going to a friendly country.
- Dick Gregory
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17
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The United States is the only country where it takes
more brains to figure your tax than to earn
the money to pay it.
- Edward J. Gurney
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18
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to
tax.
- Charles F. Kettering
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19
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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
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20
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Death and taxes and
childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.
- Margaret Mitchell [Gone With The Wind]
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21
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Income Tax has made
more liars out of the American people than Golf.
- Will Rogers
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22
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I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the
government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes
to
keep it going.
- George Bernard Shaw
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23
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When it comes to finances, remember that there are
no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.
- Mae West
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24
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Indoors or out, no one relaxes
In March, that month of wind and taxes,
The wind will presently disappear,
The taxes last us all the year.
- Ogden Nash
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25
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There's only one kind of tax
that
would please everybody -- one that nobody but the other guy has to pay.
- Earl Wilson
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26
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I didn't see why the schoolmaster should be taxed
to
support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.
- Henry D. Thoreau
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27
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The chief deduction most people make from their income
tax
is
that government costs too darned much.
- Walt Streightiff
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28
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The nation ought to have a tax
system
which looks like someone designed it on purpose.
- William E. Simon
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29
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When everybody has got money they cut taxes,
and when they're broke they raise 'em. That's statesmanship of the highest
order.
- Will Rogers
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30
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Nuclear physics is much easier than tax
law.
It's rational and always works the same way.
- Jerold Rochwald
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Optimist: Someone who sets aside two hours to do
his income tax return.
--Unknown
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