Quotes about taxes
You can't be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
Families cannot prosper and keep America strong if government becomes a Goliath that preys upon their wealth, usurps their rights, and crushes their spirit.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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 Wilson Reagan
Government is like a baby - an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
It has been pointed out that the days of democracy are numbered once the belly takes command of the head. When the less affluent feel the urge to break a commandment and begin to covet that which their more affluent neighbors possess, they are tempted to use their votes to obtain instant satisfaction. Then equal opportunity at the starting line becomes an extended guarantee of at least a tie at the finish of the race. Under the euphamism "the greatest good for the greatest number," we destroy a system which has accomplished just that and move toward the managed economy which strangles freedom and mortgages generations yet to come.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
Confiscatory taxes bear a Democratic trademark. Since the inception of the federal income tax in 1914, it has been increased thirteen times under Democratic administrations. It has been reduced eight times under Republican administrations.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Albert Einstein
I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.
Robert Bakker
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
John Maynard Keynes
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