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

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)

He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes."

H. E. Martz

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly¹ got in wages.

H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

Herman Wouk (1915 - )

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

John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic

The income tax has made more liars² out of the American people than golf has.

Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Illiterate Digest (1924), "Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes"