 | "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
- Albert Einstein
, (attributed). |
| "He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination - and taxes."
- H. E. Martz
. |
| "Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."
- H. L. Mencken
. |
| "Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today."
- Herman Wouk
. |
| "The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward."
- John Maynard Keynes
. |
| "When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income."
- Plato
, The Republic. |
| "The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has."
- Will Rogers
, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes". |