Income Tax Quotations

Engineering & Science Humor - RF CafeThese engineering and science tech-centric jokes, song parodies, anecdotes and assorted humor have been collected from friends and websites across the Internet. I check back occasionally for new fodder, but it seems all the old content is reappearing all over (like this is). The humor is light-hearted and clean and sometimes slightly assaultive to the easily-offended, so you are forewarned. It is all workplace-safe.

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Although these quotes are funny, it is like having the IRS stick its finger in your eye since every one of them came directly from the Internal Revenue Service website!!!!

  • "Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.'' — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice
  • "The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.'' — James Madison, U.S. President
  • "To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men." — Edmund Burke, 18th Century Irish political philosopher and British statesman
  • “I am proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is – I could be just as proud for half the money.” — Arthur Godfrey, entertainer
  • “People who complain about taxes can be divided into two classes: men and women.” — Unknown
  • "No government can exist without taxation. This money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.'' — Frederick the Great, 18th Century Prussian king
  • "Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten.'' — Lord Bramwell, 19th Century English jurist
  • "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, author
  • "Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.” — F. J. Raymond, humorist
  • A tax loophole is "something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.'' — Russell B. Long, U.S. Senator
  • "Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form.'' — Laurence J. Peter, author
  • “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” — Albert Einstein, physicist
  • “Taxation with representation ain't so hot either.” — Gerald Barzan, humorist
  • “Where there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.” — Plato
  • “Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf.” — Will Rogers, humorist

...from the Internal Revenue Service website