Best 408 quotes in «taxes quotes» category

Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.

Syntax must be bad, having sin and tax in it.

Talkin bout money we could have a conversation Top five tax bracket in the population

Taxes are a penalty on progress.

Taxes are the killing fields of Democrats.

Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

Taxation is the legitimate support of government.

Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.

Taxes will always be lower under a Coalition government

Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.

Tax credits instead of a huge bureaucracy. This is the question for me.

Tariffs protect ill-considered government policies, such as costly regulations and high taxes on labor and capital that make our goods uncompetitive in international markets.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

That's the biggest problem, is the tax code itself.

The American colonies, all know, were greatly opposed to taxation without representation. They were also, a less celebrated quality, equally opposed to taxation with representation.

The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest.

The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.

[T]he burden of government is not measured by how much it taxes, but by how much it spends.

The capital gains tax is 15 percent now. So I sit there in my office and I make a lot of money by capital gains, and I pay 15 percent, and I pay no payroll tax on it.

The childcare tax credit makes some sense.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money

The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary.

The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

The only certain things in life are death and taxes!

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

The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes.