Best 408 quotes in «taxes quotes» category

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

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

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

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 certain things in life are death and taxes!

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

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.

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.

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

The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes.

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

The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes

There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!

There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.

There will be no overall increase in the tax burden whatsoever.

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

There's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers

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

[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 tax system is stacked against the average taxpayer.

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

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 right wing walks the walk; the left wing taxes the people that walk the walk

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

The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

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

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

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 undocumented immigrants in America who are paying more federal income tax than a billionaire. I find that just astonishing.