The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
If Wall Street paid a tax on every “game” they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
There is some talk of lowering (the income tax), and they will have to. People are not making enough to pay it. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes-I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
There is a tremendous movement on to get lower taxes on earned incomes. Then will come the real problem, 'Who among us… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The whole trouble with the Republicans is their fear of an increase in income tax, especially on higher incomes. They speak of… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
If your Income Taxes go to help out the less fortunate, there could be no legitimate kick against it in the world.… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I don't see why a man shouldn't pay an inheritance tax. If a Country is good enough to pay taxes to while… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
We owe more money than any Nation in the World, and we are LOWERING TAXES. When is the time to pay off… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
You can't legitimately kick on income tax, for it's on what you have made. You have already made it. But, look at… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The high income tax come pretty near passing in the Senate. Only lacked about six votes. So it won't be long now.… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The sales tax is the best and most equitable tax. The gasoline tax, which is nothing but a sales tax, has proven… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Wall Street is being investigated, but they are not asleep while it's being done. You see where the Senate took that tax… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
They have passed the big inheritance tax, and that gets you when you are gone. You used to could die and be… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
When a party can't think of anything else they always fall back on Lower Taxes. It has a magic sound to a… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Say did you read in the papers about a bunch of Women up in British Columbia as a protest against high taxes,… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
If you have a radio, the next three months is a good time to have it quit working. All you will hear… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Here's another way of putting it. Roosevelt wants recovery to start at the bottom. In other words, by a system of high… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Land taxes is the thing. They got so high that there is no chance to make anything. Not only land but all… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual? — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise them. That's statesmanship of the highest order. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Now they got such a high inheritance tax on 'em that you won't catch these old rich boys dying promiscuously like they… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
They are having quite an argument over Treasury Secretary Mellon's Tax Bill. Mr. Mellon wants to cut the surtax on the rich,… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Millions and millions of people don't pay an income tax, because they don't earn enough to pay on one, but you pay… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Get a sales tax, small on necessities and large on luxuries; then a stiff inheritance tax on the fellow that saves and… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
There wasn't any Republicans in Washington's day. No Republicans, no Boll Weevil, no income tax, no cover charge, no disarmament conference, no… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course. — Will Rogers Copy Share
The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It's only in the amount where the Republicans excel. — Will Rogers Copy Share
Farmers, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week. — Will Rogers Copy Share
American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off. — Will Rogers Copy Share
There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is… — Will Rogers Copy Share
The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other. — Will Rogers Copy Share
I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack… — Will Rogers Copy Share
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. — Will Rogers Copy Share
Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of… — Will Rogers Copy Share
