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The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
The America Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
The same prudence, which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public monies.
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.
You don't have to learn from your mistakes, because the government is always there to bail you out.
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
We contend that for a nation to try and tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
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.
Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.
It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.
The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it’s in the way that it’s spent.
Taxes and golf are alike, you drive your heart out for the green, and then end up in the hole.
I am proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is I could be just as proud for half the money.
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Isn't it appropriate that the month of the tax begins with April Fool's Day and ends with cries of 'May Day!’
American workers spend more of their day working to pay taxes than they do to feed, cloth, and house their families.
The trick is to stop thinking of it as "your" money.
The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose.
If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.
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