Stephen King Quotes

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

I want to pay taxes. I love this country.

Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes.

Paying taxes is a little coercive.

Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.

Paying tax is not a punishment. It's a responsibility.

While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us?

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?

Government is just spending too much money.

The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.

I don't like paying taxes, but I like sleeping at night.

Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.

The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to the taxpayer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond either the interests or the prospective wants of the Government

Where is the man who owes nothing to the land in which he lives?

I pay my taxes.

I just don't want to pay taxes.

Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.

A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government.

Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it.