April 16, 2005
Some Tax Day quotes
In honor of the annual Reaming of the Citizenry Day™ otherwise known as Tax Day, here are a few pithy quotes:
“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”
--Vladimir Lenin
“In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.”
--Voltaire
“Virtually everything is under federal control nowadays except the federal budget.”
--Herman E. Talmadge
“Government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets.”
--Ronald Reagan
“When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”
--Benjamin Franklin
“The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.”
--Ronald Reagan
“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
--George Bernard Shaw
Thanks to James Hudnall, from whom I stole borrowed these quotes, go there to read some more.