Best 408 quotes in «taxes quotes» category

My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don't owe you a penny.

My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.

Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.

NEA includes most bizarre & extreme misuse of tax funds.

Nobody likes taxes. I would prefer that none of us had to pay taxes, including myself.

Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.

Nobody told me when I became a Democrat that that involved opposition to lower taxes.

No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.

No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.

No Taxes. Let's just tip the government 15% if they do a good job.

No one is patriotic about taxes.

Of course, we all have to be taxed, but once you start to earn more than £150,000, and start paying 45 per cent tax, you are penalised. It is like a witch hunt.

Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful.

Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. Guess what? Yes we do.

Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.

One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.

On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice.

On the whole, I prefer not to be lectured on patriotism by those who keep offshore maildrops in order to avoid paying their taxes.

Opposing taxes is a key conservative value.

Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive . . . [It] reeks with injustice, and is fundamentally un-American

One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.

Our Income Tax System is a disgrace to the human race.

People feel the deck is being totally stacked against them, and the Democrats have various things in their playbook to go after opponents; taxes is one of them.

Paying tax is not a punishment. It's a responsibility.

pg 9, "The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence.

Politicians like to talk about the income tax when they talk about overtaxing the rich, but the income tax is just one part of the total tax system. There are sales taxes, Medicare taxes, social security taxes, unemployment taxes, gasoline taxes, excise taxes - and when you add up all of those taxes [many of which are quite regressive], and then you look at how they affect the rich and the poor, you essentially end up with a system in which the best off 20 percent of Americans pay one percentage point more of their income than the worst off 20 percent of Americans.

Politicians will always spend every penny of tax raised and whatever else they can get away with.

Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.

Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that.

Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money

President Obama has admitted that Medicare is on an unsustainable course and that no amount of tax increases can fix it.

Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.

Raised Arkansas taxes 5 times, but lowered taxes 94 times.

Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.

Rappers shouldn't have to file taxes because they itemize everything they own in songs.

Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.

Rather than setting property taxes on the value of land and improvements, I'd advocate a plan to set rates based on land values across the entire neighborhood.

Richard Nixon released tax returns when he was under audit.

Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.

Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.

Someone is going to have to explain to me at some time how raising taxes on job-creators is going to create more jobs.

Rudy Giuliani is more accomplished at cutting taxes than anyone else.

Senior executives can, after a fashion, get a portion of their pay tax-free. You defer part of your income and not have to pay taxes on it, and then when you retire you have the company buy a life insurance policy on you using that money. The company can deduct that money because it is a business expense, and the money will get paid out to your children or grandchildren when you die, so you have effectively given them your money and it's never been taxed.

Sending money to Washington to have it administered and sent back is like getting a blood transfusion from your right arm to your left arm with a leaky valve.

Social Security is a tax.

So, for instance, let me make this clear: You know I signed a statement. I will not raise taxes on anybody. I don't want to raise taxes on the American people.

Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.

Stop policing the world and we can get rid of income tax.