Books Quote by Marvin Kalb

This thought-provoking novel portrays the absurdity of our overbearing government bureaucracy with a story that is entertaining and fast-paced. The Taxman Cometh will become…

— Grover Norquist

There have been brilliant satires about the tax bureaucracy before, from the Beatles song ‘The Taxman’ to the film ‘Harry’s War,’ but in some…

— John Fund

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

Because I really love tax, tax topics actually feature quite a lot in my fiction of various lengths. I once wrote a science fiction…

— Ken Liu

“The gargantuan, ever-growing, ever-less-accountable, impossible-to-uproot federal bureaucracy is actually the sleeper issue of our time. It’s at the heart of the conservative critique of…

— Jim Geraghty

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

— Frederic Bastiat

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

— Herman Wouk

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

Catch-22' is the big daddy of funny war novels. It's capacious and occasionally rambling. It's a bible of literate comedy: you can find anything…

— Jesse Armstrong

'Paycheck,' I thought, was a really, really good idea. I never got an opportunity, unfortunately, to read the novel, but I loved the idea…

— Joe Morton

“Just like our forefathers in Boston Harbor, who boarded a British ship to let the king know they would have none of his tyrannical…

— Jay Williams

“Government in general, any government anywhere, is a thing of exquisite comicality to a discerning mind.”

— Joseph Conrad