Florida Property Tax News: Weiss's Familiar Quotations

Bartlett had them, why shouldn't I? What follows are not Bartlett's--but Weiss's--Familiar Quotations. Mine, of course, are not of general interest, but confimned to property taxation.

After 26 years of property tax practice, here are my favorite quoations on that subject matter.


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 H.W. Bush (Bush I)

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

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.--Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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