Best 408 quotes in «taxes quotes» category

[T]hese tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans are also the tax cuts that are least likely to promote growth.

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

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

The tax system is stacked against the average taxpayer.

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

The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.

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

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.

Today, and I'm very strongly against tax increases.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

We have no plans to increase tax at all.

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

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

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

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

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.

We rule out raising taxes this year.

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.

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 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.

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

When [Republicans] say they can reduce taxes and trim deficits at the same time, they are either deluded or deceptive, and they are playing voters for fools.

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 you're taxing bovine flatulence emissions, there's nothing left to tax.

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

Why can't Americans do their own taxes? Because the federal Tax Code is out of control, that's why. It's gigantic and insanely complex, and it gets worse all the time. Nobody has ever read the whole thing. IRS workers are afraid to go into the same ROOM with it.

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

Why is it fair that I should be paying a higher percentage of taxes than anyone else?

Why I've advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way. And you get rid of the deductions, you get rid of all the loopholes.

Wouldn't propose new taxes, but won't pledge against taxes.

Yes. I don't think it would be appropriate at this point to raise taxes on anyone, certainly not in 2011.

You can grow marijuana, so the government can't tax you and they don't like that, that's why they prohibit it.