IT'S TAX TIME......
"The trick is to stop thinking of it as 'your' money." (Tax Auditor)
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax!" (Albert
Einstein)
"When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust
less on the same amount of income." (Plato)
"There are two distinct classes of men... those who pay taxes and those
who receive and live upon taxes." (Thomas Paine)
"The Government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the
support of Paul." (George Bernard Shaw)
"There is no art which one government sooner learns from another than
that of draining money from the pockets of the people." (Adam Smith)
"He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on
him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond
necessities." (Jean Jacques Rousseau)
"Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten"
(Lord Bramwell)
"War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed
circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end. It has but
one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes." (Thomas Paine)
"In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice." (Voltaire)
"But in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes." (Benjamin
Franklin)
"A taxpayer is someone who works for the federal government but who
doesn't have to take a civil service examination." (Ronald Reagan)
"Does self assessment mean that Australia will becomes a land of untold
wealth?"
"There can be no doubt concerning the duty of each citizen to bear a
part of the public expense. But the state on its part, insofar as it is
charged with protecting and promoting the common good of its citizens,
is under an obligation to assess upon them only necessary levies, which
are, furthermore, proportionate to their means." (Pius XII)
A nervous taxpayer was unhappily conversing with the IRS Tax auditor who had
come to review his records. At one point the auditor exclaimed,
"Mr. Carr, we feel it is a great privilege to be allowed to live and work
in the USA. As a citizen you have an obligation to pay taxes, and we
expect you to eagerly pay them with a smile."
"Thank goodness," returned Mr. Carr, with a giant grin on his face from ear to
ear. "I thought you were going to want me to pay with cash."
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