Best 408 quotes in «taxes quotes» category

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.

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

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

Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.

Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.

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.

Richard Nixon released tax returns when he was under audit.

Sending money to Washington to have it administered and sent back is like getting a blood transfusion from your right arm to your left arm with a leaky valve.

Rudy Giuliani is more accomplished at cutting taxes than anyone else.

Senior executives can, after a fashion, get a portion of their pay tax-free. You defer part of your income and not have to pay taxes on it, and then when you retire you have the company buy a life insurance policy on you using that money. The company can deduct that money because it is a business expense, and the money will get paid out to your children or grandchildren when you die, so you have effectively given them your money and it's never been taxed.

So, for instance, let me make this clear: You know I signed a statement. I will not raise taxes on anybody. I don't want to raise taxes on the American people.

Someone is going to have to explain to me at some time how raising taxes on job-creators is going to create more jobs.

Stop policing the world and we can get rid of income tax.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The childcare tax credit makes some sense.

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 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 Eva Longoria who worked at Wendy's flipping burgers - she needed a tax break.

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

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 pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary.

The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

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.