Best 408 quotes in «taxes quotes» category

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

Input of public judgement for any major tax reform.

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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 used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it.

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.

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

I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.

I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.

I've never looked at a tax return without immediately losing consciousness.

Ive never supported a payroll tax.

I very much believe in reforming the tax system.

I will be the greatest jobs president that God has ever created. The tax relief will be concentrated on the working and middle class. I will be president for all Americans.

I was working on a flat tax proposal and accidentally proved there was no God.

I will cut all state taxes by at least one third.

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.

Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.

I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.

Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.

Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

Managed funds are astonishingly tax-inefficient.

Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.

Mitt Romney is coming under fire because even though he is a multimillionaire, he only paid 15 percent in taxes. That's not a tax, that's barely a tip.

Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.

Mates help each other; they do not tax each other.

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.

NEA includes most bizarre & extreme misuse of tax funds.

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.

More astronauts have been to the moon than farmers who paid the inheritance tax in 2013.

Much of the blame for the situation lies with the states themselves. They haven't been able to pass decent laws. For decades, tax authorities have been taking aim at the phenomenon of tax havens, and the most aggravating thing is that they aren't just in Bermuda or on the Cayman Islands, but right outside our front door.

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.

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