Best 408 quotes in «taxes quotes» category

Today, and I'm very strongly against tax increases.

Today is tax day. A lot of people are hoping they get refunds. And that's just the folks here in the audience.

To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

To the Tax Office: All is over between us. Please don't attempt to communicate with me again.

Trickle-down did not work. It got us into the mess we were in, in 2008 and 2009. Slashing taxes on the wealthy hasn’t worked. And a lot of really smart, wealthy people know that. And they are saying, hey, we need to do more to make the contributions we should be making to rebuild the middle class.

U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

We are all are equal, but some pay higher tax rates than others.

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

We can push Montana forward and we can do it with out raising taxes.

Wealthy people don't even pay taxes. But everybody must pay taxes.

We don't have a tax revenue problem in Washington, we have a spending problem in Washington.

We have undocumented immigrants in America who are paying more federal income tax than a billionaire. I find that just astonishing.

We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise taxes; we came back in '05, and we had an $8 billion surplus. That's how fast it can happen.

We have no plans to increase tax at all.

We must obviously be much more clever in using resources, regulate with tax and promote innovations.

Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.

We need to have a tax system that rewards work and not just financial transactions.

We rule out raising taxes this year.

We're going to bring a lot of money in on trade. We're going to bring a lot of money on reciprocal. You know, as an example, when you have countries with a big tax and we get nothing for the same product and we're paying - our companies are paying 100 percent tax in some countries and if they send their product to us we pay nothing. Doesn't make sense.

We should tax things we don't like. We should tax pollution ... And we should lighten the taxes on things we do like, like honest labor, like food.

We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.

What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes.

When I do something stupid with money and lose it....I call that Stupid Tax. I have paid so much Stupid Tax that I am expert.

What we lack is a good, strong business climate with lower taxes, fairer regulation.

When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.

When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.

When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed.

When [Republicans] say they can reduce taxes and trim deficits at the same time, they are either deluded or deceptive, and they are playing voters for fools.

Why I've advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way. And you get rid of the deductions, you get rid of all the loopholes.

When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.

When you're taxing bovine flatulence emissions, there's nothing left to tax.

Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.

Why is it fair that I should be paying a higher percentage of taxes than anyone else?

Why can't Americans do their own taxes? Because the federal Tax Code is out of control, that's why. It's gigantic and insanely complex, and it gets worse all the time. Nobody has ever read the whole thing. IRS workers are afraid to go into the same ROOM with it.

Yes. I don't think it would be appropriate at this point to raise taxes on anyone, certainly not in 2011.

Wouldn't propose new taxes, but won't pledge against taxes.

You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.

You are fortunate to live here. If I were your President, I would levy a tax on you for living in San Francisco!

You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.

You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the people discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the canidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy--to be followed by a dictatorship.

You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.

Altogether, humankind had spread over less than one-eighth of the galaxy. Expansion was somewhat self-limiting. The U.S. had not been able to hold a colony at two hundred light-years distance. At fifteen hundred light-years, most nations could consider their colonies temporary holdings. Any people it took you two months to reach were not going to pay your taxes or obey your laws. That was human nature. - Wolf Star, Tour of the Merrimack #2

All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent.

A nation with minimum laws will have maximum laughter.

Among the many other questions raised by the nebulous concept of “greed” is why it is a term applied almost exclusively to those who want to earn more money or to keep what they have already earned—never to those wanting to take other people’s money in taxes or to those wishing to live on the largesse dispensed from such taxation. No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.

An online tax program is only as good as the information the person enters into it and the understanding of what is being asked by the program.

A penny saved is worth two pennies earned . . . after taxes.

Because taxpaying is seen as an emblem of civic worthiness, denying the poor the status of taxpayers has the effect of denying their political standing. Classing a large percentage of the populace as a kind of second-class citizenry is genuinely toxic for democratic norms.