Taxes Quotes by Will Rogers

Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes.

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The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent.

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

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Syntax must be bad, having sin and tax in it.

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I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes-I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can…

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It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.

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I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man…

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

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Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it…

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If Wall Street paid a tax on every “game” they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.

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When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise them. That's statesmanship of the highest order.

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The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

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We owe more money than any Nation in the World, and we are LOWERING TAXES. When is the time to pay off…

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You can't legitimately kick on income tax, for it's on what you have made. You have already made it. But, look at…

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The high income tax come pretty near passing in the Senate. Only lacked about six votes. So it won't be long now.…

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The sales tax is the best and most equitable tax. The gasoline tax, which is nothing but a sales tax, has proven…

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I don't see why a man shouldn't pay an inheritance tax. If a Country is good enough to pay taxes to while…

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If your Income Taxes go to help out the less fortunate, there could be no legitimate kick against it in the world.…

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The whole trouble with the Republicans is their fear of an increase in income tax, especially on higher incomes. They speak of…

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Get a sales tax, small on necessities and large on luxuries; then a stiff inheritance tax on the fellow that saves and…

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When a party can't think of anything else they always fall back on Lower Taxes. It has a magic sound to a…

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They have passed the big inheritance tax, and that gets you when you are gone. You used to could die and be…

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Here's another way of putting it. Roosevelt wants recovery to start at the bottom. In other words, by a system of high…

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Land taxes is the thing. They got so high that there is no chance to make anything. Not only land but all…

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If you have a radio, the next three months is a good time to have it quit working. All you will hear…

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Say did you read in the papers about a bunch of Women up in British Columbia as a protest against high taxes,…

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Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he…

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Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea…

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People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share…

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The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

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Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook…

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There is a tremendous movement on to get lower taxes on earned incomes. Then will come the real problem, 'Who among us…

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How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?

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There wasn't any Republicans in Washington's day. No Republicans, no Boll Weevil, no income tax, no cover charge, no disarmament conference, no…

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If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay…

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They are having quite an argument over Treasury Secretary Mellon's Tax Bill. Mr. Mellon wants to cut the surtax on the rich,…

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Millions and millions of people don't pay an income tax, because they don't earn enough to pay on one, but you pay…

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Wall Street is being investigated, but they are not asleep while it's being done. You see where the Senate took that tax…

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Now they got such a high inheritance tax on 'em that you won't catch these old rich boys dying promiscuously like they…

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