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
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
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
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
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
The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent. — 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
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
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
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
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 Image
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 Image
Farmers, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
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 Image
The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
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 Image