Best 408 quotes in «taxes quotes» category

I don't like paying taxes, same as everybody else.

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

I do think there is room at the very top for marginal tax changes.

If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.

If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money.

If the tea party folks would go out there and get angry because they think their taxes are too high, for God's sake, a lot of citizens ought to get angry about the fact that they're being killed and our planet's being injured by what's happening on a daily basis by the way we provide our power and our fuel and the old practices that we have. That's something worth getting angry about.

If you are really standing up for the family, you then have to say, how do we change our school system, how do we fix tax policy so that our families are supported?

If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

If you talk about the prison-industrial complex, I've fought against the prison-industrial complex when I called for a repeal of the Rockefeller drug laws. The biggest impediment to get the laws changed was the lobbyists. Whether you're talking about healthcare, jobs going overseas, or tax reform, you're always coming up against lobbyists.

If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.

If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation.

If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare.

If your biggest tax deduction was bail money, you might be a redneck.

If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.

If you've been frugal during your life and tried to save, you're penalised by the tax system. You pay tax on your wages, your savings and even your private pension.

I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.

I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.

I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.

I'm a conservative and I believe if you tax something more you get less of it.

I love a reciprocal tax. Nobody can fight it, it's fair and it's something that we are working on very strongly.

I love B.C., but you know what taxes are like in Canada.

I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.

Inflation has ... become the cruelest tax, destroying the value of the dollar and adding new costs to every purchase.

I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've ever paid in my life.

I'm for eliminating deductions and taking some of the money to buy down rates and put it on the debt. That's not raising taxes. That's solving a problem.

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.

I'm gonna put all my money into taxes. They're sure to go up.

Improved AR roads, via voter-approved tax increase.

Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes.

Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue

I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.

I'm not for raising taxes on anyone - period.

Input of public judgement for any major tax reform.

In other words, governments do not collect taxes to provide services, they provide services as an excuse to collect taxes.

Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes.

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

Is it me, or is the government more concerned about its own tax headaches, than your tax headaches?

I still pay full tax when I work in England and the same when I work in America.

I supported Obama because of his relationships. A lot of the things he believes in, you would say that it's not in the best interest for someone in my tax bracket, but it's not about that. It's about him making the world better and making it equal and even all around, and that's what I'm supporting when I supported Obama.

I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code.

It cannot be good to tax the Americans... You will lose more than you gain.

It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.

I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside.

I think there are people watching me, and if ever I manage to save £1,000 there's someone saying, 'Oh, we'll invent a tax to take that off him'.

It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.