Best 408 quotes in «taxes quotes» category

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'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.

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

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 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 looked at a tax return without immediately losing consciousness.

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

I very much believe in reforming the tax system.

Ive never supported a payroll tax.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.

Managed funds are astonishingly tax-inefficient.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

NEA includes most bizarre & extreme misuse of tax funds.

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

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

No one is patriotic about taxes.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Opposing taxes is a key conservative value.

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