In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

You don't pay taxes, they take taxes.
- Chris Rock

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
- Dr. Laurence J. Peter

I am thankful for the taxes I pay because it means that I'm employed.
- Nancie J. Carmody

The power to tax is the power to destroy.
- John Marshall

The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away.
- John S. Coleman,

Taxes are how we pool our money for public health and safety, infrastructure, research, and services, from the development of vaccines and the Internet to public schools and universities, transportation, courts, police, parks, and safe drinking water.
- Holly Sklar

At tax time, it helps to remember that if your tax obligation has increased from the previous year, it's usually because you're enjoying more income. That's a situation to which most of us aspire. Higher taxes are a price that we pay for greater success.
- Richard Carlson

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
- Robert A. Heinlein