#axes

Julia's unhappy relationship with the Inland Revenue was due to her omission, during four years of modestly successful practice at the Bar, to pay any income tax. The truth is, I think, that she did not, in her heart of hearts, really believe in income tax. It was a subject which she had studied for examinations and on which she had thereafter advised a number of clients: she naturally did not suppose, in these circumstances, that it had anything to do with real life. ↗

— Sarah Caudwell

#taxes #life

Just tell 'em you're gonna soak the fat boys and forget the rest of the tax stuff...Willie, make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em mad, even mad at you. Stir them up and they'll love it and come back for more, but, for heaven's sakes, don't try to improve their minds. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#love

Being in love is like being lit on fire and having your loved one morph into a marshmallow as she runs to embrace you. But not being in love feels so much worse, possibly like being a tax collector. Actually, nothing compares to the lowliness of a tax collector.
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— Jarod Kintz

#hug #irs #lit-on-fire #love #marshmallow

You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#economy #taxes #taxing #business

Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions. ↗

— John Edward Redmond

#characterized #country #english #fifty #fraud

But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes. ↗

— Dar Williams

#because #benefit #benefits #how #i

The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love. ↗

— Joe E. Lewis

#love #marry #might #taxes #way

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the people discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the canidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy--to be followed by a dictatorship. ↗

— Alexander Fraser Tytler

#law #taxes #welfare #freedom

Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#country #fees #fines #free #free country

Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital parts of your car. Similarly, cutting taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the 'rich' is likely to result in an economic burnout. ↗

— Terry Savage

#brake #burn #burnout #car #certainly