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The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert Einstein
World
Understand
The Hardest Thing
Tax
Income
Income Tax
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
Relatable
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan
Government
Few
Phrases
Could
Economy
Up
Subsidize
Short
Stops
Tax
Moves
Moving
View
Regulate
Keeps
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Winston Churchill
Man
Prosperity
Try
Nation
Lift
Bucket
Like
Himself
Contend
Up
Itself
Handle
Trying
Tax
Standing
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
Charles Kettering
Thinking
One Thing
Able
No-One
Been
Tax
Ever
Thing
In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.
Thomas Sowell
Life
Money
Will
Unfair
Politicians
Increase
Liberal
Spend
Ways
Logic
More
Over
Answer
Getting
Tax
Tax Money
Turn
Then
Chances
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
Robert A. Heinlein
You
Strong
Collectors
Drink
Miss
Make
Shoot
Tax
Wary
Yes, the rich will find ways to avoid paying more taxes, courtesy of clever accountants and tax attorneys. But this has always been the case, regardless of where the tax rate is set.
Robert Reich
Will
Clever
Rich
Ways
Find
Case
Rate
More
Attorneys
Courtesy
Always
Been
Yes
Accountants
Tax
Where
Regardless
Tax Rate
Taxes
Paying
Avoid
Set
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
Will Rogers
Made
Liars
Out
More
Than
American
Tax
Golf
Income
Income Tax
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
Thomas Sowell
Government
Spending
Rates
Rising
Rather
Budgets
Balanced
Reduced
Real
Cover
Goal
Government Spending
Than
Achieved
Tax
Tax Rates
Should
Ever
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
Will Rogers
Business
Crime
Out
Able
Seem
Check
Legalize
Tax
Then
Why
Why Not
Lawyers have their duties as citizens, but they also have special duties as lawyers. Their obligations go far deeper than earning a living as specialists in corporation or tax law. They have a continuing responsibility to uphold the fundamental principles of justice from which the law cannot depart.
Robert Kennedy
Justice
Obligations
Law
Responsibility
Living
Earning
Corporation
Citizens
Lawyers
Also
Principles
Go
Continuing
Than
Depart
Uphold
Duties
Tax
Cannot
Which
Far
Special
Specialists
Fundamental
Deeper
Fundamental Principles
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Government
Vote
Obligation
Pay
Those
Only
Democratic
Escape
Tax
Which
Who
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
Mark Twain
Skin
Collector
Only
Takes
Between
Difference
Tax
Your
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
Barry Goldwater
Government
Single
Other
Criminals
More
Single Act
Than
Any
Tax
Created
Act
Income
Income Tax
The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat.
Ben Shapiro
Government
Failure
Capitalism
People
Simple
Voting
Job
Increase
Enough
Spending
Job Creators
Boost
Promise
City
Pension
Detroit
Allow
Generous
Until
Employment
Inequality
Repeat
Government Spending
Campaign
Tax
Order
Bankruptcy
Story
Against
Flee
Plans
Wash
Grow
Keep
Creators
Income
Income Inequality
For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
Jesus Christ
Love
You
Reward
Those
Collectors
Same
Tax
Love You
Who
Even
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
Mark Skousen
Success
Failure
World
Build
Pay
Defeat
Society
State
Complete
Totalitarian
Totalitarian State
Totally
Civilized
Civilized Society
Civilized World
Higher
Price
Voluntary
Failing
Greater
Ultimate
Represents
Tax
While
Taxation
Planned
Level
The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself.
Carter G. Woodson
Opportunity
Every
Unlimited
Given
Individual
Consumer
Takes
Most
Make
Himself
Author
Tax
Order
Social
Should
Social Order
Pays
Position
I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Word
Everyone
Would
Fair
Like
Policies
Tax
Who
Uses
Connection
Income
Income Tax
Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
Barry Goldwater
Death
Vote
Fight
Impossible
Politician
Spending
Projects
Promised
Make
Very
Tax
Where
Tax Cuts
Taxes
Cuts
Lower
Lower Taxes
Who
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.
John F. Kennedy
Strength
Difficulty
Ease
Risk
Potential
Directly
Investment
New
Economy
Obtaining
Ventures
Affects
Mobility
Tax
Experienced
Gains
Decisions
Capital
Capital Gains
Thereby
Growth
Flow
Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.
Margaret Thatcher
Government
Family
Money
Will
Wish
Every
Spend
Dictates
Tax
After
Us
Choice
Should
Choose
Let Us
Extend
Right
Chance
Those who want low taxes and healthy job creation know that an unnecessary dollar going to these unions is a dollar that cannot reduce the tax burden on homeowners, small businesses, and job creators.
Bruce Rauner
Burden
Job
Healthy
Creation
Unions
Those
Job Creation
Job Creators
Unnecessary
Small
Small Businesses
Know
Reduce
Dollar
Going
Tax
Want
Tax Burden
Cannot
Low
Taxes
Who
Businesses
Creators
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
Plato
Man
Will
Pay
Unjust
More
Same
Just
Tax
Less
Income
Income Tax
Amount
People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship, and if that happened, then they wouldn't be prey to the employers who say, 'We want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.'
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Work
You
People
Opportunity
Pay
Else
Ought
Say
Those
Citizenship
Given
Could
Prey
Towards
Leads
Know
Employers
Track
Because
Been
Salary
Tax
Want
Anyone
Anyone Else
Happened
Then
Paying
Who
Hardworking
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry
Time
History
Peace
Grief
Grace
World
Rest
Free
Wild
Come
Am
Forethought
Tax
Who
Lives
Things
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