Taxes

• Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. —Herman Wouk
• Today it takes more brains and effort to make out the income tax form than it does to make the income. —A.E. Neuman
• Avoid strong drink. It can make you shoot at a tax collector... and miss. —Lazarus Long
• The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr. —Will Rogers
• Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200 and a substantial tax cut saves you 30 cents? —Peg Bracken
• The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift — is taxes. —W. Feather
• Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. —H. L. Mencken
• The income tax people are very nice. They're letting me keep my own mother. —Henny Youngman
• Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund. —F. J. Raymond
• It's a privilege to be able to pay taxes. If they keep going up, I may have to give up the privilege! —Arthur Godfrey