Best 408 quotes in «taxes quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 tax system is stacked against the average taxpayer.

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

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

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 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, and I'm very strongly against tax increases.

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.

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

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

U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.

To the Tax Office: All is over between us. Please don't attempt to communicate with me again.

Trickle-down did not work. It got us into the mess we were in, in 2008 and 2009. Slashing taxes on the wealthy hasn’t worked. And a lot of really smart, wealthy people know that. And they are saying, hey, we need to do more to make the contributions we should be making to rebuild the middle class.

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

We are all are equal, but some pay higher tax rates than others.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Wealthy people don't even pay taxes. But everybody must pay taxes.

We can push Montana forward and we can do it with out raising taxes.

We don't have a tax revenue problem in Washington, we have a spending problem in Washington.

We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise taxes; we came back in '05, and we had an $8 billion surplus. That's how fast it can happen.

Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.

We have no plans to increase tax at all.

We have undocumented immigrants in America who are paying more federal income tax than a billionaire. I find that just astonishing.

We need to have a tax system that rewards work and not just financial transactions.

We must obviously be much more clever in using resources, regulate with tax and promote innovations.

We're going to bring a lot of money in on trade. We're going to bring a lot of money on reciprocal. You know, as an example, when you have countries with a big tax and we get nothing for the same product and we're paying - our companies are paying 100 percent tax in some countries and if they send their product to us we pay nothing. Doesn't make sense.

We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.

We rule out raising taxes this year.

We should tax things we don't like. We should tax pollution ... And we should lighten the taxes on things we do like, like honest labor, like food.

When I do something stupid with money and lose it....I call that Stupid Tax. I have paid so much Stupid Tax that I am expert.

What we lack is a good, strong business climate with lower taxes, fairer regulation.

What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes.

When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.

When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed.

When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.

Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.

When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.