Taxes Quote by Diana Gabaldon

“Taxes occupy a strange position in the emotional landscape, oscillating between moments of great passion (April 15 and election days) and near-lethal boredom (every…

— Bruce Cannon Gibney

“I am convinced that if most members of Congress did their own taxes, we would have had tax reform long ago.”

— Bill Archer

“But the 1970s kicked off a three-decade-long “tax-cutting spree” during which the wealthiest 1 percent succeeded in getting their average effective federal tax rate…

— Jane Mayer

“History lesson, folks: The tax system we have today—the one we've come to know and love—began ninety-four years ago as a (drum roll, please)…

— Neal Boortz

“The real income reported on federal tax returns by the vast majority of Americans, the 90 percent, doubled between the end of the war and 1973.”

— David Cay Johnston

“Let’s look at the state of tax cheating under the current system. In 2001, the last year for which information is available, the IRS…

— Neal Boortz

“Everyone crossed themselves at the mention of the IRS. Street gangs and the mob paled in comparison to fear of the tax code.”

— Janet Evanovich

“high taxation was not regarded in these years as an affront. On the contrary, steep rates of progressive income tax were seen as a…

— Tony Judt

When you can identify a specific tax that people don't like, and this is one that was designed for the Rockefellers, for the Carnegies…

— Paul Gigot

Up until 1986, the top marginal rate, the top statutory rate was 50 percent. Now it's 35 percent. And all the pressure is on…

— Bruce Bartlett

The high-handed bureaucratic excesses of the IRS are a national disgrace ... riding roughshod over the taxpayers and making a joke out of our…

— Paul Laxalt

“The point of this context is not to demand a return to the era of 90 percent taxation, but simply to remind that in…

— Bruce Cannon Gibney