Tax Burden

Famous quotes containing the words tax and/or burden:

    “Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.”
    —Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)

    “When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when the grasshopper is a burden and the postman brings no letters, and even the Royal Family is no longer quite what it was, an obituary column stands fast.”
    —Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978)