Tax Burden

Famous quotes containing the words tax and/or burden:

“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

“... it is probable that in a fit of generosity the men of the United States would have enfranchised its women en masse; and the government now staggering under the ballots of ignorant, irresponsible men, must have gone down under the additional burden of the votes which would have been thrown upon it, by millions of ignorant, irresponsible women.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)