Famous Property Tax Quotations

Our favorite quotations regarding taxation, after 24 years of commercial property tax practice…



The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
--John Maynard Keynes

The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes.
--Anonymous

Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves from the overtaxed.
--Bernard Berenson

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
--Edmund Burke

Read my lips. No new taxes!
--George Bush

Taxes are the sinews of the state.
--Cicero

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.
--Arthur Godfrey

Death and taxes are inevitable.
--Thomas C. Haliburton

The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
--William Lyon MacKenzie King

The power to tax involves the power to destroy.
--John Marshall

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.
--F. J. Raymond

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when its through, if you are a crook or a martyr.
--Will Rogers

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
--Mark Twain

Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little.
--Van Panopoulos

The tax collector must love poor people--he's creating so many of them.
--Bill Vaughan

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
--Charles Dudley Warner

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