Tax Quotes

The power to tax involves the power to destroy.
-- Chief Justice Marshall in M'Culloch v. Maryland,17 U.S. 316, 431 (1819).

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
-- Mark Twain

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

Did you ever notice that when you put the words "THE" and "IRS" together, it spells "THEIRS."
-- Unknown Author

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

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

The difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
-- Will Rogers

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

When there is a single thief, it's robbery.  When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation.
-- Vanya Cohen

What at first was plunder [has now] assumed the softer name of revenue.
-- Thomas Paine