William Proxmire Quotes

[Addressing a young aide:] You have a college education, haven't you? I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, but I don't know where that book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it!

Even with multiple instruction books, maneuvering the maze of the tax code is costly and time-consuming.

Simplicity just isn't a word synonymous with taxes.

I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.

The tax code was so complicated that it took so long to master it that one lost the will to reform it.

As artists, we are blessed to be able to make money but, on the same note, are held accountable for our federal tax obligations just like everyone else.

I'd think people would want me to follow the law and pay only what the tax code requires.

You grow up, no one really teaches you about taxes, especially as an athlete.

Most people don't realize the amount of tax forms the small business guy has to go through.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

Why can't Americans do their own taxes? Because the federal Tax Code is out of control, that's why. It's gigantic and insanely complex, and it gets worse all the time. Nobody has ever read the whole thing. IRS workers are afraid to go into the same ROOM with it.

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

If businesses don't know from state to state what the requirements are for taxes, they have to waste a lot of money on accountants and lawyers before deciding to expand their business into the state next door.

Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.

A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes.

I've always been paying my taxes and I've always been trying to comply.

Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires.

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

Businesses large and small shouldn't have to check the expiration date of a tax provision to see if it's still good.

What has always puzzled me is the flexibility of God's word. For instance, Catholics can now eat meat on Fridays. And limbo has been abolished. How does this work? Who tells them?

The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

Boy buggering in both Islam and Catholicism is okay with the Pope as long as it isn't reported by the liberal press.

The Roman Church has never erred, nor can it err until the end of time.