Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
- Herman WoukThe income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
- Will RogersThe avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
- Adam BullockAny tax over 12-14% -- regardless of the base -- will corrupt enough taxpayers to render the system unfair to all. So, beware of single-tax proposals. The U.S. government blows more money than any single tax can generate. The key is to tax multiple bases, disparate in nature, and with simple flat rates. That is a system both fair and sustatinable.
- Barbara KafkaThe hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
- Albert EinsteinWith various people complaining about "price gouging'... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed" or "gouging" '” not even when they bulldoze people`s homes in order to turn the land over to businesses that will pay more taxes.
- Thomas SowellUnquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
- Bill LovejoyNew taxes should be a last resort, not an option
- Christopher MyersWhen there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
- Plato