Robert H. Jackson Quotes

No taxation without respiration.

When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. - they'll find something.

Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.

What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

The Internal Revenue Service is more ruthless than the Gestapo. Abolish the IRS! Stamp out organized crime!

Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.

To sell a new tax to the voters you have to be very specific about what it is being used for.

Does the Internal Revenue Service work for you or do you work for them?

I say scrap the IRS. Let's start all over again.

And that does concern me, because we're not getting enough back for our taxes that we're paying. I think we really have to look at the whole sort of area.

I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.

'Tax Collector' was optioned for a series with F/X, but it never happened. I guess they ran into a problem trying to figure out why someone would tune in to watch a show about a guy who works for the IRS.

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised. Obama and the Democrats have a fight with the American people, not with me.

Twenty-five years ago, I created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge at the federal level. Then I brought it to the state and local level. About 97 percent of the Republicans in the House and 85 percent in the Senate have signed on, and the number of candidates who have taken the pledge is even higher. It's become a party position.

We need to simplify our tax code. We need to make sure that it’s not too cumbersome for people to be able to comply with. And that they don’t end up spending more money trying to file their taxes than they do actually paying in.

Maybe I should get back to the music-writing phase and write one on tax reform.

I voted in support of H.R. 5445, the 21st Century IRS Act, which requires the IRS to place more taxpayer services online.

We have a lot of taxpayers in this city who deserve to get every nickel of their tax dollars that they're entitled to from Washington, and I intend to make that happen.

I want paying taxes to feel like the accomplishment of a civic duty.

Let's start with protecting taxpayers and making sure we have more fairness in the system.

Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.