Quotes about taxes

Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

Let this country get hungry and they are going to eat, no matter what happens to budgets, income taxes or Wall Street. Washington mustn’t forget who rules when it comes to a show down.

Will Rogers

Those whose efforts have produced a poor result often have a lengthy list of reasons to justify their poor progress. To them the items on the list are not excuses, they are reasons. They blame the company or they blame the boss. They blame taxes. They blame their parents or the teachers or the system.

Jim Rohn

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

Bill Gates

Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least.

Robert Kiyosaki

Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government.

J. P. Morgan

Congress should know how to levy taxes, and if it doesn’t know how to collect them, then a man is a fool to pay the taxes.

J. P. Morgan

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Calvin Coolidge

But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.

Nikola Tesla