Portuguese Proverb Quotes

Make the law and then find a way around it.

The law will never keep up with the machinations of the human mind.

Like king, like law; like law, like people.

Laws go where money pleases.

There's always another loophole to get out of the tax code.

The law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it — very loose, the line of the law — so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are nearly always — short of blatant theft or cold-blooded murder — safely on the right side. That's a daunting thing to realize but true.

We can’t write a tax law that their lawyers can’t get around.

The NSA has shown, time and time again, it will seize on any wiggle room in the law .

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

Multi-millionaires who pay half or less than half of the percentage of tax the rest of us pay justify their actions by saying they pay what the law requires. Though true, the fact is they found ways within the law to beat the purpose of the law - which, in the case of taxes, is that we all pay our fair share.

A need for enforcement implies the possibility of behavior that violates the rules of the game. The point is that if there were no possibility of violation, then you wouldn't need enforcement.

The best use of laws is to teach men to trample bad laws under their feet.

Politicians and economists figure out an elaborate system of tax and economic incentives and then every body else figures out a way to beat it

To the laws all men show respect and deference, as without them peace and harmony would be supplanted by anarchy and terror; human laws being instituted for the express purpose of regulating our interests as individuals and nations, between man and man; and divine laws given of heaven, prescribing rules on spiritual concerns, for faith and worship

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

All kings of England had ever, in cases of necessity or expediency, been accustomed, at intervals, to elude them [the laws.]

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.

Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it.

Those who pasture on the common pastures larger animals of no greater number than ten plus their offspring up to one year of age ... shall not owe any tax or fee for these animals ... to the State or to any tax farmer nor give security nor pay anything for this reason.

You can close [tax] loopholes, but people will always find new ones.

Something is terribly wrong with the tax laws of this country and the way they are enforced. So I quit.

He will place a tax on the air you breathe and on the bread you eat; he will give you a legislation which is as legitimate as it is unjust and instead of reasons, he’ll give you laws. These will grow in the course of time, until you no longer exist for yourselves but for others.

One of the reasons that I was so successful at OMB was that I was very good at gaming the system.

The creative ability in this town to game a system is extraordinary.

Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive; [it] reeks with injustice and is fundamentally un-American... it has earned a rebellion and it's time we rebelled