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"I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as proud for half the money."	Arthur Godfrey
"Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly."	Benjamin Franklin
"Taxes: Of life's two certainties, the only one for which you can get an automatic extension."	Author Unknown
"Of course the truth is that the congresspersons are too busy raising campaign money to read the laws they pass. The laws are written by staff tax nerds who can put pretty much any wording they want in there. I bet that if you actually read the entire vastness of the U.S. Tax Code, you'd find at least one sex scene ("'Yes, yes, YES!' moaned Vanessa as Lance, his taut body moist with moisture, again and again depreciated her adjusted gross rate of annualized fiscal debenture")."	Dave Barry
"Question: " I understand that Congress is considering a so-called 'flat' tax system. How would this work?" Answer: "If Congress were to pass a 'flat' tax, you'd simply pay a fixed percentage of your income, and you wouldn't have to fill out any complicated forms, and there would be no loopholes for politically connected groups, and normal people would actually understand the tax laws, and giant talking broccoli stalks would come around and mow your lawn for free, because Congress is NOT going to pass a flat tax, you pathetic fool."	Dave Barry
"What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue."	Thomas Paine
"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
"I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization."	Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Taxes are the price we pay for civilization."	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."	Albert Einstein
"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."	Benjamin Franklin
"Did you ever notice that when you put the words "The" and "IRS" together, it spells "THEIRS?"	Author Unknown
"The best things in life are free, but sooner or later the government will find a way to tax them."	Author Unknown
"How much money did you make last year? Mail it in. [suggestion for a simplified tax form]"	Stanton Delaplane
"Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair."	George Burns
"Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt."	Howard Aiken
"The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax."	Lord Thomas Robert Dewar
"Only the little people pay taxes."	Leona Helmsley
"I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes."	Mark Twain
"The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ."	Thomas Jefferson
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Leona Helmsley	Lord Thomas Robert Dewar	Mark Twain
Oliver Wendell Holmes	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.	Stanton Delaplane
Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Paine	Will Rogers