Tax Day Quote-Mania, Because Every Joke Is a Tiny Revolution

It's Tax Day, and I was trying to pick a good quotation to share. I'm having trouble, since there are so many great possibilities. So I'll just give you some of my favorite bon mots and witticisms about taxes!

"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least amount of hissing."
~Jean-Baptiste Colbert

"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."
~Calvin Coolidge

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

"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."
~Robert L. Heinlein

"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."
~H.L. Mencken

"The taxpayer: that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn't have to take a civil service examination."
~Ronald Reagan

"The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."
~ Will Rogers
(though I might quip that very possibly death has gotten worse with ObamaCare!)

"The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin."
~Mark Twain

"Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others."
~Oscar Wilde

Feel free to share your favorite tax-erriffic quotations in comments, fellow taxpayers!

UPDATE: More anti-tax quotations!