tax, n.All

Tax is the sinews of the state.

Tax is so high that take-home pay can hardly survive the trip.

A Tax is distinguished from a fine in that a fine is something you pay for doing wrong and a tax is a fine you pay for doing all right.

A Tax is always a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

A Tax is the outgo of the income.

Tax is a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value.

A Tax is a fine for doing well.

Tax is capital punishment.