Tax Quotes (4)

Making out an income tax is a lesson in mathematics: addition, division, multiplication and extraction.
Anonymous
In Evan Esar, 20,000 Quips and Quotes, 419.
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There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program: Your tax dollar will go father
Attributed in Reader's Digest (1961). In Fred R. Shapiro, The Yale Book of Quotations (2006),101.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it!
Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he asked about the practical worth of electricity.
Quoted in R. A. Gregory, Discovery, Or The Spirit and Service of Science (1916), 3.
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