The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don’t know when it’s through if you are a crook or a martyr.

Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist

“Helping Girls With Their Income Tax,” syndicated column (7 Apr 1923)
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Collected by Rogers as "Helping the Girls with Their Income Taxes," The Illiterate Digest (1924).