BEST TAX QUOTE: “Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.” – Quote by Who?
PROVOCATIVE STATEMENT: If you are a HNWI, there is a 99.9% chance that tax day for most is national tax extension day for the HNWI! – JDM20210415 (aka April 15, 2021 normal tax day)
QUEST WHO
Was it Albert Einstein ( physicist), Plato (philsosophier), James Madison ( U.S. President), Ronald Regan (U.S. President), Thomas Jefferson (U.S. President), Winston Churchfield (U.K. Primeminister), or Guest Who?
- “A tax loophole is something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.” — Russell B. Long, U.S. Senator
- “Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf.” — Will Rogers, humorist
- Guest Who? “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”
- Guest Who? “Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
- Guest Who? “The best things in life are free, but sooner or later the government will find a way to tax them.”
- Guest Who? “I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”
- Guest Who? “Where there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.”
- Guest Who? “A fine is a tax for doing something wrong. A tax is a fine for doing something right.”
- Guest Who? “A person doesn’t know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.”
- Guest Who? “People who complain about taxes can be divided into two classes: men and women.”
- Guest Who? “We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.”
- Guest Who? “To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”
- Guest Who? “The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.”
- “To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.” — Edmund Burke, 18th Century Irish political philosopher and British statesman
- “I am 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, entertainer
- Guest Who? “People who complain about taxes can be divided into two classes: men and women.”
- “No government can exist without taxation. This money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.” — Frederick the Great, 18th Century Prussian king
- “Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten.” — Lord Bramwell, 19th Century English jurist
- “The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.” — Arthur C. Clarke, author
- “Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.” — F. J. Raymond, humorist
- “Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form.” — Laurence J. Peter, author
- “Taxation with representation ain’t so hot either.” — Gerald Barzan, humorist
- “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Contact Jack D. or Charlotte F. for the key to “quest who” via a LinkedIn. Thanks – JD Morris
