#axe

The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way. ↗

— Judith Martin

#taxes #teenagers #life

I realize what it means to be financially comfortable, and I want to be that. But I'm lucky enough to be in that position. And I'm also careful. I save 38 percent of my earnings after expenses, before taxes. ↗

— David Duval

#also #before #careful #comfortable #earnings

So you and the lovely Agent Scully are going down to investigate?' Frohike said, sounding hopeful. 'Yeah, we leave for Cancun tomorrow.' 'Our tax dollars at work,' Langly snorted. 'I'd love to see Agent Scully with a healthy tropical tan,' Frohike said. 'Down, Frohike,' Mulder said. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#langley #mulder #scully #taxes #the-lone-gunmen

The power to tax is the power to destroy. ↗

— John Marshall

#taxes #taxing #economy

They're so broke that they've actually cut essential services. In many places, they've cut policemen, because, who the fuck needs them? Or firemen, son of a bitch, it's much more fun watching something burn down. ↗

— Lewis Black

#budget #comedy #economy #fire #police

No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#government #prosperity #taxes #taxing #economy

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#pay #taxes #tyranny #moon

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#chop #down #first #four #give

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. ↗