Taxes(Related Subjects: Government, Money)

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed) He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes." H. E. Martz Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. Herman Wouk (1915 - ) The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward. John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946) When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Illiterate Digest (1924), "Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes"