Best 408 quotes in «taxes quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

Improved AR roads, via voter-approved tax increase.

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

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

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

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

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

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

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

Input of public judgement for any major tax reform.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on.

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

I tried to stay away from King. You can't do it. It's like staying away from taxes. Sooner or later, he'll get you.

It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts.

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

It's so hard to get our goods into China. And when we do get in they charge us a huge surtax. They call it a surtax or a tariff. I call it a tax.

I've been regulated my whole life. We have progressive taxes. It's not a free-market free-for-all. I completely understand that society has a perfectly legitimate right to put in structures and regulations and rules that make it fairer, better, cleaner.

It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling.

I've always viewed high-frequency trading as a tax on the rest of us.