Concern Quote by H. L. Mencken

I can think of a number of things more interesting to read about than tax law, but few things affect our lives more.

— Mike Crapo

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

— John Ray

Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.

— David Ricardo

Those of us who understand human history know the role taxation has played in shaping the destiny of mankind. The matter of taxes -…

— Owen Arthur

The state has been living on a revenue which was being produced in the private sphere for private purposes and had to be deflected…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

Death and taxes are inevitable.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.

— Bill Vaughan

Though tax records are generally looked upon as a nuisance, the day may come when historians will realize that tax records tell the real…

— Charles Adams

“Aggression hides in our culture under many names. Taxation is only an example, but one of the most widespread and uneconomical. If this concept…

— Mary J. Ruwart

Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not…

— Alfred de Musset

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

— Honore de Balzac

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people

— Anonymous