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Quotes of the Day for 15 April 2005 - Taxes

Here in the US, today is the deadline for paying personal income taxes for last year. For those who aren't completely ready, there is an option of applying for an extension for completing the paperwork, but today is the deadline for the money. As you would expected of a subject so universal, there are quotes.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
     - Henry Louis Mencken, 1880 - 1956

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.
     - Lord Thomas Robert Dewar

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.
     - Mark Skousen

Tax reform means: Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax that fellow behind the tree.
     - Russell Long, 1918 - 2003

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when its through, if you are a crook or a martyr.
     - Will Rogers, 1879 - 1935

When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.
     - Mae West, 1892 - 1980

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