Property tax quotes

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◆ The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

- Will Rogers100

◆ It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.

- Will Rogers99

◆ I am proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is I could be just as proud for half of the money.

- Arthur Godfrey99

◆ There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

- Robert A Heinlein99

◆ A lot of Americans think they got a tax cut, and they didn't because their local property tax went up, their excise tax went up, their sales tax went up, and their prices went up and everything else, because we failed to invest in some of these other things we ought to be doing. ... We are squeezing the middle class, we are losing the middle class, and the gap between the haves and the have-nots is growing wider and wider, not closing as it used to be.

- Senator John Kerry99

◆ Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

- Henry Louis Mencken99

◆ To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

- Benjamin Tucker99

◆ America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

- Laurence J Peter99

◆ The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

- John Maynard Keynes99

◆ Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

- Calvin Coolidge99

◆ There is no such thing as a good tax.

- Winston Churchill99

◆ Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.

- Lazarus Long99

◆ I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.

- James Madison99

◆ The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away.

- John Caldwell99

◆ The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

- Ronald Reagan99