Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
--  Benjamin Franklin
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It would be a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their income. -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, 1758
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The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. -- Mark Twain

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America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. -- Dr. Laurence J. Peter
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I like to pay taxes. It is purchasing civilization. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, United States Supreme Court Justice 
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This [preparing my tax return] is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes 
a philosopher. -- Albert Einstein
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