I’m proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.  ~Arthur Godfrey

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can’t live within its income.  ~Robert Half

The best things in life are free, but sooner or later the government will find a way to tax them.  ~Author Unknown

It was as true… as taxes is.  And nothing’s truer than them.  ~Charles Dickens

The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.  ~John S. Coleman, address, Detroit Chamber of Commerce, 1956WLBUQ

If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude.  Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation.  It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute.  ~Thomas Paine

People who complain about taxes can be divided into two classes:  men and women.  ~Author Unknown

The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card.  A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here.  ~Steve Forbes

When there’s a single thief, it’s robbery.  When there are a thousand thieves, it’s taxation.  ~Vanya Cohen

A person doesn’t know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.  ~Author Unknown

Taxes grow without rain.  ~Jewish Proverb

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.  ~Herman Wouk

The politicians say "we" can’t afford a tax cut.  Maybe we can’t afford the politicians.  ~Steve Forbes

I like to pay taxes.  With them I buy civilization.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., quoted by Felix Frankfurter, The Atlantic Monthly, October 1938Justice Holmes Defines the Constitution by Felix Frankfurter, p495; http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/13/taxes-civilize  (Thanks, Garson O’Toole of quoteinvestigator.com!)

Taxation is the price which we pay for civilization…. ~Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Vermont, October Session, 1851 (Report of the Committee Appointed by the Governor to Take into Consideration the Financial Affairs of the State)TPV

The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.  ~Ronald Reagan

There’s nothing wrong with the younger generation that becoming taxpayers won’t cure.  ~Dan Bennett

The wages of sin are death, but after they take the taxes out, it’s more like a tired feeling, really.  ~Paula Poundstone

I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.  ~Mark Twain

We must care for each other more, and tax each other less.  ~Bill Archer

The payment of taxes gives a right to protection.  ~James M. Wayne

Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed. ~Daniel Defoe, The Political History of the Devil, 1726

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation… For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent…. We, therefore… solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States.  ~The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies, 1776

You must pay taxes.  But there’s no law that says you gotta leave a tip.  ~Morgan Stanley advertisement

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.  ~Will Rogers

If the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, how he must hate the taxpayer!  ~John Andrew HolmesCUL

Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant:  animals have instincts, we have taxes.  ~Erving Goffman

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.  ~Benjamin Tucker, Instead of a BookHHQ

I am thankful for the taxes I pay because it means that I’m employed.  ~Nancie J. Carmody

Another difference between death and taxes is that you don’t have to work like fury to pay for the dying you did last year. ~Robert Quillen, “Oh, By the Way!” Gazette-Telegraph (Colorado), 15 April 1921

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.  ~Calvin Coolidge

Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Be wary of strong drink.  It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss.  ~Robert Heinlein

Unquestionably, there is progress.  The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.  ~H.L. Mencken

There is an ancient belief that the gods love the obscure and hate the obvious.  Without benefit of divinity, modern men of similar persuasion draft provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.  Section 341 is their triumph.  ~Martin D. Ginsburg

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector?  The taxidermist takes only your skin.  ~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1902

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?  ~Peg Bracken

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.  ~Thomas Paine

There may be liberty and justice for all, but there are tax breaks only for some.  ~Martin A. Sullivan

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.  ~Ralph Waldo EmersonCUL

Count the day won when, turning on its axis,
This earth imposes no additional taxes.
~Franklin P. Adams

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

Intaxication:  Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.  ~Author unknown, from a Washington Post word contest