#taxes

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#increasingly #subsidizes #system #taxes #work

If businesses don't know from state to state what the requirements are for taxes, they have to waste a lot of money on accountants and lawyers before deciding to expand their business into the state next door. ↗

— Bob Goodlatte

#before #business #businesses #deciding #door

I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#friendly #going #i #knew #mind

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

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

— Ronald Reagan

#economy #taxes #taxing #business

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#average #average american #formerly #got #much

Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this. ↗

— Knute Nelson

#built #children #farmers #gen #hired

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments. ↗

— Robert Orben

#back #before #ever #more #payments

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#choice #fit #freedom #had #loaded

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#certain #circumstances #end #human #human wisdom