Best 408 quotes in «taxes quotes» category

The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again and I'll say to them, read my lips, no new taxes.

The current tax code is a daily mugging.

The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.

The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.

The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.

The Eva Longoria who worked at Wendy's flipping burgers - she needed a tax break.

The higher the rate, the more interest there is in avoiding the tax. Either you move or you shift your profits overseas, as American corporations have proven very good at doing.

The extraction tax is based in part on production times the market value at the wellhead, so any downturn in the market price is going to be a mathematical impact on the shale tax. But beyond that, it also concerns me because it also impacts the health of the industry.

The highway program devalues the tax base of a city.

The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business.

[The Internal Revenue Code is] about 10 times the size of the Bible and, unlike the Bible, contains no good news

The last time we raised the gas tax, which is how we built the interstate system, was 1993.

The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.

The payroll tax increase was destructive financially, it took what was a close call and made it a bad call.

The more money that you have, the easier it becomes to hide that and avoid taxes.

The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes.

The only way major change in environmental policy is going to happen, the only way, is if there is a very strong, very active popular movement that demands it and such a movement would be unparalleled because it would be a popular movement that says, "Raise our taxes so that we change our behavior.

The more employment one creates, the more tax benefits they will get.

The most important investment you can make is in yourself... nobody can tax it or take it away from you.

The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary.

The only certain things in life are death and taxes!

The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.

The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn’t understand. And it ended in tragedy.

The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer famine.

There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.

There are some Republicans who say that any time you raise new revenue, you have to have a tax cut to match it. I am not one of those Republicans.

The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.

The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes

There's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers

There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!

The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind

The right wing walks the walk; the left wing taxes the people that walk the walk

[T]hese tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans are also the tax cuts that are least likely to promote growth.

There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.

There will be no overall increase in the tax burden whatsoever.

The sisters worked from dawn to dusk. One of them was an idiot; she started shaving her legs and marrying tax inspectors, so she was no good.

The tax code is 10 times the size of the Bible with none of the good news.

The surest thing in the world is not death and taxes, it's death and eternity. Yet, we're so unconcerned.

The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.

The tax system is stacked against the average taxpayer.

The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting.

The Tax Collector's letters are invariably mimeographed, and all they say is that you still haven't paid him.

The Value-Added Tax, a sales tax that applies at every level of business transactions, is an easy tax for governments to collect, and a hard tax to evade. So it makes the job of raising revenue easier. The revenues from the VAT can then be used to lower taxes on income and saving and investment. The Value-Added tax doesn't penalize work or saving; it's a tax on buying stuff.

The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.

The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.

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

To alter the money value of commodities, by altering the value of money, and yet to raise the same money amount by taxes, is then undoubtedly to increase the burthens of society.

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

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