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- "Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some
men should be happier than others." - "There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."
- "If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it."
- "The Treasury has helpfully reminded me that I am not the first chancellor to announce the last spring budget. Twenty-four years ago, Norman Lamont also presented what was billed then as the last spring budget … The then prime minister described it as the right budget, at the right time, from the right chancellor. What they failed to remind me of, Mr Speaker, was that 10 weeks later, he was sacked"
- "Tax day is the day that ordinary Americans send their money to Washington, DC, and wealthy Americans send their money to the Cayman Islands."
- "In this world, nothing can be said to be certain except death
and taxes." - "The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale."
- "The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax."
- "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." - "A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."