Taxes famous quotes
04-18-2025
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Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.
-- Adam Carolla -
They can’t collect legal taxes from illegal money.
-- Al Capone -
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.
-- Alan K. Simpson -
When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.
-- Ari Fleischer -
Nobody likes taxes. I would prefer that none of us had to pay taxes, including myself.
-- Barack Obama -
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
-- Benjamin Cardozo -
The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.
-- Bob Beauprez -
We can push Montana forward and we can do it with out raising taxes.
-- Brian Schweitzer -
Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
-- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour -
We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.
-- Charles Adams -
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
-- Charles Kettering -
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.
-- Charles M. Vest -
Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.
-- Charlotte Lennox -
I am no longer going to go along with this idea that we're going to keep spending and borrowing and taking over and raising taxes, that I'm going to do everything I can to change things.
-- Chris Matthews -
Fewer people working means permanently lower tax revenues.
-- Christina Romer -
The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.
-- Christopher Bond -
Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but death and taxes.
-- Christopher Bullock -
You're not getting this back you know. Consider it an ***** tax.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Rappers shouldn't have to file taxes because they itemize everything they own in songs.
-- Damien Fahey -
Don't tax you, don't tax me; Tax the companies across the sea.
-- Dan Rostenkowski -
Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.
-- Daniel Defoe -
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.
-- Daniel Tammet -
But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.
-- Dar Williams -
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.
-- Dave Barry -
Taxes should be lower, flatter, and simpler, in that order.
-- David Boaz -
I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.
-- David Dewhurst -
President Obama has admitted that Medicare is on an unsustainable course and that no amount of tax increases can fix it.
-- David Limbaugh -
Envy was just the tax you paid on success.
-- David Nicholls -
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.
-- David Ricardo -
[The Internal Revenue Code is] about 10 times the size of the Bible and, unlike the Bible, contains no good news
-- Don Nickles -
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.
-- Dwyane Wade -
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.
-- Eric Alterman -
one of the sisters started shaving her legs and marrying tax inspectors, so she was no good.
-- Eva Ibbotson -
The Eva Longoria who worked at Wendy's flipping burgers -- she needed a tax break,
-- Eva Longoria -
pg 9, "The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence.
-- Fernando Pessoa -
Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him
-- Fiorello H. La Guardia -
There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.
-- Frank Chodorov -
Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector
-- Frank Serpico -
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt -
Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes
-- Franklin P. Adams -
What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes.
-- Geoff Davis -
I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form.
-- Geoffrey Rush -
You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.
-- George P. Shultz -
If you raise taxes during a recession, you head to depression.
-- George W. Bush -
Democrats don't want you to know what their tax plans are. They just don't want you to know.
-- George W. Bush -
Get ready; if the Democrats take the House, your taxes are going up.
-- George W. Bush -
No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.
-- George Washington -
Father was the most unreconciled taxpayer I ever knew.
-- Gladys Taber -
Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.
-- Grover Norquist -
Tax and Tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.
-- Harry Hopkins -
The imposition of taxes has its limits. There is a maximum which cannot be transcended. Suppose the citizen to be taxed by the general government to the utmost extent of his ability, or a thing as much as it can possibly bear, and the state imposes a tax at the same time, which authority is to take it?
-- Henry Clay -
Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.
-- Henry Knox -
Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.
-- Jack Gould -
Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
-- Jack Kemp -
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.
-- Jack Markell -
Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.
-- James P. Hoffa -
Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires.
-- Jason Chaffetz -
You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.
-- Jason Chaffetz -
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.
-- Jay Leno -
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.
-- Jeff Flake -
We are all are equal, but some pay higher tax rates than others.
-- Jeff Rich -
The more money that you have, the easier it becomes to hide that and avoid taxes.
-- Jeffrey Hollender -
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.
-- Jesse Ventura -
Someone is going to have to explain to me at some time how raising taxes on job-creators is going to create more jobs.
-- Jim Jordan -
As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.
-- Jim Ramstad -
We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated.
-- Joe Manchin -
I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy.
-- John Boehner -
In 1950, American families sent 1 of 50 of their hard earned dollars to Washington: Today it is 1 in 4.
-- John Ensign -
Anti-Tax fetishist Grover Norquist owns a bust of Ronald Reagan, who raised taxes 11 times.
-- John Fugelsang -
You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.
-- John Hoeven -
The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.
-- John Irving -
You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.
-- John Redwood -
We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.
-- John Sherman -
It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.
-- Jon Corzine -
The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.
-- Jon Kyl -
Corruption is another tax on the consumer and it is the Maltese families who are forking the money to make up for such corruptions.
-- Joseph Muscat -
One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.
-- Josh Mandel -
There is only one way to kill capitalism - by taxes, taxes, and more taxes.
-- Karl Marx -
I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside
-- Ken Dodd -
The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.
-- Ken Livingstone -
A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes.
-- Kid Rock -
I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.
-- Laurie Notaro -
When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.
-- Lawrence Hill -
The surest thing in the world is not death and taxes, it's death and eternity. Yet, we're so unconcerned.
-- Leonard Ravenhill -
It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.
-- Lindsey Graham -
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.
-- Lindsey Graham -
Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.
-- Lord Chesterfield
