Tuesday, January 31, 2012

The Overburdened Tax-Payers



Posted by Guest Blogger "Sayf Maslul"


“The American people deserve a 'rebate' for the wasteful costs imposed on them by our broken tax system. The dollar amount exceeds the combined revenue of Sears, Walt Disney, Microsoft, Rite Aid, and McDonald's, while the yearly paperwork volume is staggering: over 1.3 billion information items and 8 billion pages of forms and instructions. The hours expended annually in this ritual is equivalent to the labor of over 2.5 million people. Don't we all have more productive things to do with our time?” 
[ John Berthoud]

"The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government." [Barry Goldwater]

"The current tax code is a daily mugging." [Ronald Reagan]

"We 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]

"When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income." [Plato]

"A tax loophole is something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform." [Russell B. Long]

"We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one." [Herbert Spencer]

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