An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
Daniel Webster

I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word "fair" in connection with income tax policies.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
Charles Kettering

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
Herbert Spencer

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
Edith Sitwell

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
Honore De Balzac

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
Arthur C. Clarke

Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
Ramakrishna

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
Nicolas de Chamfort

I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend.
Jesse Ventura

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.
Art Buchwald

An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job.
Newt Gingrich

What good will a tax break do me if I'm crippled for life?
Alan Ladd

You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.
David Rockefeller

I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush.
Jerry Falwell

And it would be fair. Everyone will pay the same tax and it will eliminate tax cheaters and corporate shenanigans.
Steve Forbes

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

Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.
Charlton Heston

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.
Pete Seeger

Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas.
Joe Baca