SOME TAX QUOTES - apropos for this time of year.....
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> Where there's a will, there's an Inheritance Tax.
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> The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift - is taxes.  --W. Feather
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> In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.  --Benjamin Franklyn
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> Foreign Aid - taxing poor people in rich countries for the benefit of
> rich people in poor countries.  --Bernard Rosenberg
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> Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying
> as an income tax refund. --F.J. Raymond
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> You know it's a bad day when your income tax refund check bounces.
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> I believe we should all pay our tax bill with a smile.  I tried -- but
> they wanted cash.  --Anon.
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> Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a
> substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?  --Peg Bracken
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> Any reasonable system of taxation would be based on the slogan of 'Soak
> the Rich'.  --Heywood Broun
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> The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf
> has.  --Will Rogers (Attrib.)
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> Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written
> today.  --Herman Wouk
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> The income tax people are very nice.  They're letting me keep my own
> mother.  --Henny Youngman
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> There is only one thing worse than the flu season; the tax season.  You
> can recover from the flu.
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> The best things in life are free, but sooner or later the government
> will find a way to tax them.
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> Bumper snicker:  Save Our Trees.  Stop Printing Tax Forms!
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> All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by
> the government in less than a second.  -- Jim Fiebig
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> According to the tax bill signed by President Reagan on December 22,
> 1987, Don Tyson and his sister-in-law Barbara run a "family farm."
> Their "farm" has 25,000 employees and grosses $1.7 billion a year.  But
> as a "family farm" they get tax breaks that save them $135 million a
> year.
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> Baseball is a skilled game.  It's America's game -- it, and high taxes.
> --Will Rogers
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> Be wary of strong drink.  It can make you shoot at tax collectors, and
> miss.  --Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
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> I owe the government $3400 in taxes.  So I sent them two hammers and a
> toilet seat.  --Sue Murphy
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> I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States.  The only thing is --
> I could be just as proud for half the money.  --Arthur Godfrey
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> Unquestionably, there is progress.  The average American now pays out
> twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.  --H. L. Mencken
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> Q: Why do people pay taxes?
> A: To help out the government -- so the government doesn't have to pay
> for everything.
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> Death and taxes are inevitable; at least death doesn't get worse every
> year.
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> There is nothing more permanent than a temporary tax.
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> Taxpayers don't have to take a civil service exam to work for the
> government.
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> There is only one way to kill capitalism--by taxes, taxes, and more
> taxes.
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> Micro-Ap, a manufacturing company based in Londonderry, N.H., paid $18,
> 267.40 in taxes last year.  In September, the firm received a bill from
> the Internal Revenue Service for 1 cent, plus a penalty of $194.72.
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> Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should
> be happier than others. --Oscar Wilde
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> A fine is a tax for doing something wrong.  A tax is a fine for doing
> something right.
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> Isn't it appropriate that the month of the tax begins with April Fool's
> Day and ends with cries of "May Day!"?  --Rob Knauerhase
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> You've just told the guy next to you your life's history, how much you
> make, and how you've gotten out of paying income tax for years, and
> find out he's from the IRS.
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> Old MacDonald had an agricultural real estate tax abatement.
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> Born Free...Taxed to Death
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> The IRS sent back my tax return saying I owed $800. I said "If you'll
> notice, I sent a paper clip with my return.  Given what you've been
> paying for things lately, that should more than make up the
> difference."
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> Have you ever wondered if taxation without representation was cheaper?