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The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

Albert Einstein

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. - Albert Einstein

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. Albert Einstein

Money, Income, Hardest Thing

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. Ronald Reagan

Government, Could, Regulate

The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat. Ben Shapiro

City, Allow, Income

Lawyers have their duties as citizens, but they also have special duties as lawyers. Their obligations go far deeper than earning a living as specialists in corporation or tax law. They have a continuing responsibility to uphold the fundamental principles of justice from which the law cannot depart. Robert Kennedy

Lawyers, Obligations

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. Winston Churchill

Nation, Like, Handle

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax. Thomas Dewar

Income, Having, Hurts

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose. Margaret Thatcher

Chance, Will, Choose

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. Mark Skousen

Planned, While, Civilized

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them. - Bill Vaughan

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them. Bill Vaughan

Funny, Love, Poor

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

History, Rest, Lives

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot. Barack Obama

Code, Bill Clinton, New Jobs

A more productive economy in the long term will bring us higher tax revenues, but that requires long-term investment in infrastructure and the skills necessary to grow a balanced economy. Jeremy Corbyn

Grow, Will, Necessary

Diseases are the tax on pleasures. John Ray

Pleasures, Diseases

My dad's from that generation like a lot of immigrants where he feels like if you come to this country, you pay this thing like the American dream tax: like you're going to endure some racism, and if it doesn't cost you your life, well hey, you lucked out. Pay it; there you go, Uncle Sam. I was born here, so I actually had the audacity of equality. Hasan Minhaj

Country, Here, Feels

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons. - Douglas Adams

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons. Douglas Adams

Funny, Reasons, Spending

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected. Thomas Sowell

Will, More, Over

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. Barry Goldwater

Income, Other, Single Act

Tax reform for the 21st century means rewarding hardworking families by closing unfair loopholes, lowering tax rates across the board, and simplifying the tax code dramatically. It demands reducing the tax burden on American businesses of all sizes so they can keep more of their income to invest in our communities. Kevin Brady

Code, Rewarding, Income

I am a Democrat and disagree with virtually all of President Trump's policy positions, including those on healthcare, LGBTQ rights, civil rights, immigration, global warming, gun control, and tax 'reform.' Eva Moskowitz

Gun, Trump, Global

If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship. Barack Obama

College, Some, Cut

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

Strong, Wary, Collectors

Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun. Grover Norquist

Small, Gun, Cut

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made. John Berryman

Bats, Arrested, General

Obama and Clinton wrongly believe that the corporate income tax is a tax on the rich. The reality is that rich corporations don't pay taxes - workers do. Lawrence Kudlow

Income, Obama, Wrongly

We spend millions of dollars every year just for the right to pay our taxes, but once again, do we really need to do that? Why don't we simplify it? And I've certainly looked at fair tax, I've looked at flat tax, and if I get to the U.S. Senate, I'd like to review that. John Raese

Year, Why, Taxes

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible? Barry Goldwater

Death, Projects, Very

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