Here are some famous people's thoughts on taxes!! This is from MSN.

If you find yourself muttering about taxes this time of year, you're not alone. The subject of taxes has inspired many famous (and not so famous) quotes…

"Taxation without representation is tyranny."

Attributed to: James Otis (1725-1783), U.S. politician. As "No taxation without representation," this became the principal slogan of the American Revolution.

"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."

Adam Smith (1723-1790), British philosopher and economist. Wealth of Nations (1776).

"In this world nothing can be said to be certain but death and taxes."

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), U.S. statesman and scientist. Letter to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy (November 13, 1789).

"Sir, I now pay you this exorbitant charge, but I must ask you to explain to her Majesty that she must not in future look upon me as a source of income."

Attributed to: Charles Kemble (1775-1854), English actor. On being obliged to hand over his income tax to the tax collector

"The avoidance of taxes is the only pursuit that still carries any reward."

Attributed to: John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), British economist.

"It has made more liars out of the American people than golf."

Will Rogers (1879-1935), U.S. actor and humorist. Referring to income tax.

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax."

Attributed to: Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born U.S. physicist.

"They can't collect legal taxes from illegal money."

Al Capone (1899-1947), Italian-born U.S. gangster, 1930. Objecting to the U.S. Bureau of Internal Revenue claiming large sums in unpaid back tax.

"Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!"

Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949), U.S. novelist. Gone with the Wind (1936)

"The taxpayer is someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take a civil service examination."

Attributed to: Ronald Reagan (1911- ), U.S. motion-picture actor and president.

"The Congress will push me to raise taxes and I'll say no, and they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again. And I'll say to them, read my lips: no new taxes."

George H. W. Bush (1924- ), U.S. president. Acceptance speech, Republican Party Convention, New Orleans (August 18, 1988)

-- Melissa in SE Ohio (me@home.net), April 14, 2002

Answers

"Paying taxes is for people dumb enough to do it"!

-- mitch hearn (moopups@cutlink.net), April 14, 2002.

Please note that my pension is so low that I qualify for refunds without any paying in. Its a joke folks!!!

-- mitch hearn (moopups@cutlink.net), April 14, 2002.

I got it Mitch!!! With 4 kids we don't pay much either. BUT I know the day is coming when we will. I do taxes for so many people whose kids are now gone, and boy do they pay. Single people especially get hit HARD... I feel sorry for most of them...

-- Melissa in SE Ohio (me@home.net), April 14, 2002.

Got mine in and refund back already.

-- Gary in Ohio (gws@columbus.rr.com), April 15, 2002.

There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist. The taxidermist leaves the hide.

-- Lenette (kigervixen@nospam.com), April 15, 2002.

From some of these responses it sounds like I'm supporting more than my own family with the fruits of my labors.

-- Gary in Indiana (gk6854@aol.com), April 15, 2002.

I know Gary. There are so many credits for families, but not much t help the single person. Believe me I look for them... and when people come and say I heard they are doing such and such and I have to say, sorry it doesn't apply to you, I just hate it. But being in business there are a lot of legitiamte deductions, so that helps a lot. I hate to pay that self-employment tax myself...

-- Melissa in SE Ohio (me@home.net), April 15, 2002.

I hate paying that self-employment tax, too. I waited until today to give up the $$$. Soooo many things I coulda done with that sweat of my brow! I work contract labor and have to file that way, so was left out of the big "rebate" last year. (Thank u dubya) Am hoping they will apply it to this year's filing, if so, then I may get a refund for a change!

-- juana (juana@simple-living.com), April 15, 2002.

Here's a few tidbits of information to make you even happier:

Internal Revenue Code: (Number of words) over 2.8 million

The Bible: (Number of words) 774,746

IRS Annual Budget: 9.4 billion (2002) Number of employees: 99,887

FBI Annual Budget: 4.2 billion Number of Special Agents: 12,582

Border Patrol Annual Budget: 1.5 billion Number of Agents: 10,551

Cost of Government Day last year (the date on which you have paid your share of the cost of running our government) July 6, 2001

-- Lenette (kigervixen@nospam.com), April 15, 2002.