ReAnn Rothwell’s Money Saving Ideas, Tax & Organizing Tips

 In the middle of the TAX season, (which most folks do NOT look forward to) I am sharing with you some of my favorite Tax Time Quotes.  Not sure if these will make you feel better or worse. {grin} However, they might at least make you smile (you have to love Dave Barry’s thought processes!) or give you pause to think about why we all pay taxes. Read on……

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Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.  ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms. Armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes. - Tacitus

Justice: A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the state sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service. [The Devil's Dictionary] - Ambrose Bierce

The United States has a system of taxation by confession.  ~Hugo Black

The expenses of government, having for their object the interest of all, should be borne by everyone, and the more a man enjoys the advantages of society, the more he ought to hold himself honored in contributing to those expenses.  ~Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability.  But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two.  “At least,” as one man said, “there’s one advantage about death; it doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.” ~Erwin N. Griswold

Death and taxes and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them! - Margaret Mitchell

Of course the truth is that the congresspersons are too busy raising campaign money to read the laws they pass.  The laws are written by staff tax nerds who can put pretty much any wording they want in there.  I bet that if you actually read the entire vastness of the U.S. Tax Code, you’d find at least one sex scene (”‘Yes, yes, YES!’ moaned Vanessa as Lance, his taut body moist with moisture, again and again depreciated her adjusted gross rate of annualized fiscal debenture”).  ~Dave Barry

Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn’t be related.  ~J.C. Watts, Jr.

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

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question: “I understand that Congress is considering a so-called ‘flat’ tax system.  How would this work?”  Answer:  “If Congress were to pass a ‘flat’ tax, you’d simply pay a fixed percentage of your income, and you wouldn’t have to fill out any complicated forms, and there would be no loopholes for politically connected groups, and normal people would actually understand the tax laws, and giant talking broccoli stalks would come around and mow your lawn for free, because Congress is NOT going to pass a flat tax, you pathetic fool.”  ~Dave Barry

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.  Benjamin Franklin

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments. - Robert Orben

The seven deadly sins, Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man’s neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted. - George Bernard Shaw

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