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, subsidise it.
Ronald Reagan
Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.
Why is it inflationary if the people keep their own money, and spend it the way they want to, [but] not inflationary if the government takes it and spends it the way it wants to?.
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.
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
Will Rogers
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
Thomas Paine
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert Einstein
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
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