Best 408 quotes in «taxes quotes» category

Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.

Managed funds are astonishingly tax-inefficient.

More astronauts have been to the moon than farmers who paid the inheritance tax in 2013.

Mates help each other; they do not tax each other.

Mitt Romney is coming under fire because even though he is a multimillionaire, he only paid 15 percent in taxes. That's not a tax, that's barely a tip.

Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.

My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.

Much of the blame for the situation lies with the states themselves. They haven't been able to pass decent laws. For decades, tax authorities have been taking aim at the phenomenon of tax havens, and the most aggravating thing is that they aren't just in Bermuda or on the Cayman Islands, but right outside our front door.

Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.

My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don't owe you a penny.

NEA includes most bizarre & extreme misuse of tax funds.

Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.

Nobody told me when I became a Democrat that that involved opposition to lower taxes.

No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.

Nobody likes taxes. I would prefer that none of us had to pay taxes, including myself.

On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice.

No one is patriotic about taxes.

No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.

Of course, we all have to be taxed, but once you start to earn more than £150,000, and start paying 45 per cent tax, you are penalised. It is like a witch hunt.

One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.

No Taxes. Let's just tip the government 15% if they do a good job.

Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. Guess what? Yes we do.

Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful.

One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.

Opposing taxes is a key conservative value.

On the whole, I prefer not to be lectured on patriotism by those who keep offshore maildrops in order to avoid paying their taxes.

pg 9, "The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence.

Paying tax is not a punishment. It's a responsibility.

Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.

Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive . . . [It] reeks with injustice, and is fundamentally un-American

Our Income Tax System is a disgrace to the human race.

People feel the deck is being totally stacked against them, and the Democrats have various things in their playbook to go after opponents; taxes is one of them.

Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.

President Obama has admitted that Medicare is on an unsustainable course and that no amount of tax increases can fix it.

Politicians like to talk about the income tax when they talk about overtaxing the rich, but the income tax is just one part of the total tax system. There are sales taxes, Medicare taxes, social security taxes, unemployment taxes, gasoline taxes, excise taxes - and when you add up all of those taxes [many of which are quite regressive], and then you look at how they affect the rich and the poor, you essentially end up with a system in which the best off 20 percent of Americans pay one percentage point more of their income than the worst off 20 percent of Americans.

President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that.

Politicians will always spend every penny of tax raised and whatever else they can get away with.

Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money

Raised Arkansas taxes 5 times, but lowered taxes 94 times.

Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.

Rappers shouldn't have to file taxes because they itemize everything they own in songs.

Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.

Rather than setting property taxes on the value of land and improvements, I'd advocate a plan to set rates based on land values across the entire neighborhood.

Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.

Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.

Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.