Excellent reflections as we approach tax time!
1) Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you
were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. --
Mark Twain
2) 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.
-- Winston Churchill
3) A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can
always depend on the support of Paul. George Bernard Shaw
4) A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to
his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off
with your money. -- G. Gordon Liddy
5) Democracy must be something more than two
wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for
dinner. -- James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
6) Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer
from poor people in rich countries to rich people in
poor countries. -- Douglas Casey, Classmate of W.J.
Clinton at Georgetown U. (1992)
7) Giving money and power to government is like
giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. --
P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
8) Government is the great fiction, through which
everybody endeavors to live at the expense of
everybody else. -- Frederic Bastiat, French
Economist (1801-1850)
9) 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. -- Ronald Reagan (1986)
10) I don't make jokes. I just watch the
government and report the facts. -- Will Rogers
11) If you think health care is expensive now,
wait until you see what it costs when it's free. --
P.J. O'Rourke
12) If you want government to intervene
domestically, you're a liberal. If you want
government to intervene overseas, you're a
conservative. If you want government to intervene
everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want
government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist.
-- Joseph Sobran, Editor of the National Review at one time (1995)
13) In general, the art of government consists in
taking as much money as possible from one party of
the citizens to give to the other. -- Voltaire (1764)
14) Just because you do not take an interest in
politics doesn't mean politics won't take an
interest in you. -- Pericles (430 B.C.)
15) No man's life, liberty, or property are safe
while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain (1866)
16) Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
-- (Unknown)
17) The government is like a baby's alimentary
canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no
responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan
18) The inherent vice of capitalism is the
unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent
blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of
misery. -- Winston Churchill
19) The only difference between a tax man and a
taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
-- Mark Twain
20) The ultimate result of shielding men from the
effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
21) There is no distinctly native American
criminal class save Congress. Mark Twain
22) What this country needs are more unemployed
politicians. -- Edward Langley, Artist (1928 -1995)
1) Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you
were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. --
Mark Twain
2) 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.
-- Winston Churchill
3) A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can
always depend on the support of Paul. George Bernard Shaw
4) A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to
his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off
with your money. -- G. Gordon Liddy
5) Democracy must be something more than two
wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for
dinner. -- James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
6) Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer
from poor people in rich countries to rich people in
poor countries. -- Douglas Casey, Classmate of W.J.
Clinton at Georgetown U. (1992)
7) Giving money and power to government is like
giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. --
P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
8) Government is the great fiction, through which
everybody endeavors to live at the expense of
everybody else. -- Frederic Bastiat, French
Economist (1801-1850)
9) 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. -- Ronald Reagan (1986)
10) I don't make jokes. I just watch the
government and report the facts. -- Will Rogers
11) If you think health care is expensive now,
wait until you see what it costs when it's free. --
P.J. O'Rourke
12) If you want government to intervene
domestically, you're a liberal. If you want
government to intervene overseas, you're a
conservative. If you want government to intervene
everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want
government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist.
-- Joseph Sobran, Editor of the National Review at one time (1995)
13) In general, the art of government consists in
taking as much money as possible from one party of
the citizens to give to the other. -- Voltaire (1764)
14) Just because you do not take an interest in
politics doesn't mean politics won't take an
interest in you. -- Pericles (430 B.C.)
15) No man's life, liberty, or property are safe
while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain (1866)
16) Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
-- (Unknown)
17) The government is like a baby's alimentary
canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no
responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan
18) The inherent vice of capitalism is the
unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent
blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of
misery. -- Winston Churchill
19) The only difference between a tax man and a
taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
-- Mark Twain
20) The ultimate result of shielding men from the
effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
21) There is no distinctly native American
criminal class save Congress. Mark Twain
22) What this country needs are more unemployed
politicians. -- Edward Langley, Artist (1928 -1995)
