Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves from the overtaxed.

Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves from the overtaxed.

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

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

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

The primary requisite for any new tax law is for it to exempt enough voters to win the next election

The primary requisite for any new tax law is for it to exempt enough voters to win the next election

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them

Death and taxes are inevitable.

Death and taxes are inevitable.

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a read more

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