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Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues. — Mike Pence

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

Make no mistake, the point of cutting the personal income tax and the capital gains cut is to send an unmistakable message to business. — Bill Richardson

Our Income Tax System is a disgrace to the human race. — Jimmy Carter

A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. — Karl Marx

1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS. — Ron Paul

Don't tax my income, tax my consumption. — Bill Gates

Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits. — Bernie Sanders

Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant. — Karl Lagerfeld

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. — Will Rogers

When I started to pay income tax, I was 50 years old. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income. — Ronald Reagan

In income tax, there is no case for amnesty. — P. Chidambaram

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

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns. — Herman Wouk

Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform. — John Cornyn

The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds. — Steven Rattner

Yet, individuals and corporations in Puerto Rico pay no federal income tax. — Dick Thornburgh

I could juggle anything in my day. Balls, cigar boxes, knives ... But there was one thing I could never juggle. My income tax. — W.C. Fields

We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes. — Joe Scarborough

I know everybody's income and what everybody earns,
And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns — W.S. Gilbert

The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime. — Rex Stout

I got five kids - I claim three for income tax purposes. — Tracy Morgan

There are people who enjoy the life in England but don't pay a penny in tax, whereas my footballers pay more than half their income in tax. — Gordon Taylor

A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism. — Karl Marx

We ought to thank President Bush. He made it a lot easier for people to do taxes this year. No job, no income tax this year. — Jay Leno

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax. — Thomas Dewar

Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax. — William L. Jenkins

I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank? — Milton Berle

There is some talk of lowering (the income tax), and they will have to. People are not making enough to pay it. — Will Rogers

If income tax is the price you have to pay to keep the government on its feet, alimony is the price we have to pay for sweeping a woman off hers. — Groucho Marx

If people give up their attachment to expansive government, they will feel free to fight the income tax. — Sheldon Richman

I still believe a majority of Republicans are for income tax cuts. — Mary Fallin

I think that Governor Romney operates on the capital gains tax, his investments, what he lives off of instead of doing it off of his income. — Allen West

This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher(when asked about completing his income tax form) — Albert Einstein

Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most. — A.E. Samaan

Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Get rid of IRS; get rid of income tax; get rid of spending. — Ron Paul

High tax rates distort economic decision making, and our corporate income tax rate is one of the highest in the world. — Jason Chaffetz

The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government. — Mark Skousen

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax. — Mike Royko

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away. — Tom Lehrer

For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don't have to pay income tax that day because they're not working. — Jesse Ventura

Let me tell you, the heart of my tax proposal: I will not raise taxes on the American people. I will not raise taxes on middle-income Americans. — Mitt Romney

Long time ago when we were fab, back when income tax was all we had. — George Harrison

A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill. — Hans F. Sennholz

I've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ people. — Ken Livingstone

China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders. — Zhou Enlai

Contrary to the myth that Mr. Bush cut taxes only for the wealthy, the 2001 tax cut reduced taxes for every income-tax payer in the country. — Ari Fleischer

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax. — Pete Seeger

(which did not exist before the creation of the income tax in 1913) — Thomas Piketty

Stop policing the world and we can get rid of income tax. — Ron Paul

I have continuously said that, at the very minimum, the Bush tax cuts for income under $250,000 should be extended. — Brad Schneider

The zero-income-tax-rate states have far faster growth in tax revenues than did the states with highest income tax rate over the same period. — Arthur Laffer

There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax! — Nat King Cole

Why not just eliminate the federal income tax? — Gore Vidal

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

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. — Will Rogers

The corporate income tax, in particular, is a tax that puts American corporations at a disadvantage. — Ken Buck

By the year 1982 the graduated income tax will have practically
abolished major differences in wealth. — Irwin Edman

I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art. — Corita Kent

An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt. — Fred Allen

All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent. — Thomas Piketty

I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies. — William F. Buckley Jr.

I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax. — Ann Richards

By the way, when I say cut taxes, I don't mean fiddle with the code. I mean abolish the income tax and the IRS, and replace them with nothing. — Ron Paul

The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution. — G. Edward Griffin

65% of people say that cheating on your income tax is worse than cheating on your spouse. The other 35% were women. — Jay Leno

We've already donated to Haiti. It's called the U.S. income tax. — Rush Limbaugh

The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds & because it tends to public economy. — William E. Gladstone

Higher energy prices act like a tax. They reduce the disposable income people have available for other things after they've paid their energy bills. — John W. Snow

I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax. — Michael Moore

When my mother makes out her income tax return every year, under occupation she writes, eroding my daughter's self-esteem. — Robin Roberts

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the 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

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government. — Ron Paul

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. — Herman Wouk

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. — Arthur C. Clarke

I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. I don't think the evidence supports that. — Austan Goolsbee

There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income. — Will Rogers

And my response is 70,000 people in the state of Maine that paid income tax in 2011 will not be paying income tax in 2012. — Paul LePage

Higher projected corporate and personal income tax receipts and lower public debt charges. — Ralph Goodale

There's no such thing as a good tax. — Winston Churchill

I solemnly swear that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to the Queen when she pays her income tax — Dennis Skinner

Gun registration is no more complex than the Income Tax system. — Joe Jordan

I love the Roth IRA. Tax-free income in retirement is a truly great deal. — Suze Orman

Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want. — Yuriy Tarnawsky

An investment is tax inefficient if it relies heavily on investment income, instead of its price movement. — Michael Brentwood