Best 408 quotes in «taxes quotes» category

I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.

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'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 like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.

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

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

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.

Inflation has ... become the cruelest tax, destroying the value of the dollar and adding new costs to every purchase.

Improved AR roads, via voter-approved tax increase.

I'm not for raising taxes on anyone - period.

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

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

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

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

Input of public judgement for any major tax reform.

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes.

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.

Is it me, or is the government more concerned about its own tax headaches, than your tax headaches?

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 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 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.

It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.

I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code.

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 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's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

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

I've always viewed high-frequency trading as a tax on the rest of us.

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 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 been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.

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

I've never looked at a tax return without immediately losing consciousness.

Ive never supported a payroll tax.

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

I very much believe in reforming the tax system.

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