Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2017-05-02 May 2, 2017Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humiliation and misery.~ Georges BernanosThe taxpayer; that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn´t have to take a civil service examination.~ Ronald ReaganHow is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich -- or just out of the poor, as usual?~ Will Rogers May 1, 2017Families would be in better shape if our tax code didn’t push married mothers who wish to raise their own children into the labor force, in large part to pay for a welfare state that encourages unskilled, unmarried teenagers to bear illegitimate children the rest of us must support.~ Lisa SchiffenI don't know if I can live on my income or not -- the government won't let me try it.~ Bob ThavesAny politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?~ Thomas Sowell Apr 28, 2017Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.~ Art Buchwald... every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.~ Auberon HerbertThe Government has been compelled to levy taxes which unavoidably hit large sections of the population. The Italian people are disciplined, silent and calm, they work and know that there is a Government which governs, and know, above all, that if this Government hits cruelly certain sections of the Italian people, it does not so out of caprice, but from the supreme necessity of national order.~ Benito Mussolini Apr 27, 2017As a taxpayer, you are required to be fully in compliance with the United States Tax Code, which is currently the size and weight of the Budweiser Clydesdales.~ Dave BarryUnquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.~ H. L. MenckenThe only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.~ Mark Twain Apr 26, 2017Let me point this out now. Your income tax is 100 percent voluntary tax, and your liquor tax is 100 percent enforced tax. Now, the situation is as different as night and day. Consequently, your same rules just will not apply...~ Dwight E. AvisThat this privilege of giving or of withholding our monies is an important barrier against the undue exertion of prerogative, which if left altogether without control may be exercised to our great oppression; and all history shews how efficacious is its intercession for redress of grievances and re-establishment of rights, and how improvident would be the surrender of so powerful a mediator.~ Thomas JeffersonConstitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.~ William Howard Taft Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print