"A tax is a fine for doing..." - Quote by Mark Twain
A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.
More by Mark Twain
“Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor”
“What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back the burden of grief that is laid on each one of us. In youth we don't feel it, but as we grow to manhood we find the burden on our shoulders. Humor? It is nature's effort to harmonize conditions. The further the pendulum swings out over woe the further it is bound to swing back over mirth.”
“There isn't any way to libel the human race.”
More on Taxes
“I believe - we all pay taxes. I'm happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That's going to bother you.”
“What we don't need is more spending, and what we don't need are taxes, and what we do need is a lot less of both.”
“Would your reply possibly be this? Well, it all depends on what my tax rate will be on the gain you're saying we're going to make. If the taxes are too high, I would rather leave the money in my savings account, earning a quarter of 1 percent. Only in Grover Norquist's imagination does such a response exist.”