Best 408 quotes in «taxes quotes» category

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

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 a conservative and I believe if you tax something more you get less of it.

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

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.

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

Improved AR roads, via voter-approved tax increase.

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

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.

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

Input of public judgement for any major tax reform.

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

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 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 paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

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?

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

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.

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 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'.

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

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.

Ive never supported a payroll tax.

I very much believe in reforming the tax system.

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.

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 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.

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