Taxes Quotes

Teach kids not to fight. Can they change taxes? I'd get rid of all the congestion charges, because they've not stopped traffic. They're a waste of time, not that I'm getting all political.

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.

Make sure you pay your taxes; otherwise you can get in a lot of trouble.

The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such.

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

I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty.

I think if I were a superhero saving the world, I'd expect at least not to have to pay income taxes. I mean there should be something in it for a hero who risks his life to save mankind every day.

Ohioans know who cut their taxes. Nobody else on the ballot did. Ohioans know who is responsible for job growth, and nobody else on the ballot was.

All is fair in love, war and tax evasion.

All the evidence here, for example, in Britain, is that migrants, particularly from the rest of Europe, who come here contribute far more in taxes.

We're in a very Orwellian situation where when we - we've slashed defense. And we've raised taxes. And we consider $600 billion annual deficit success because it's not $1 trillion.

All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch the mass exodus.

The woman that comes in, takes the wastebasket away, she's paying 15.3 or whatever it is on payroll tax alone. I mean it is - I never had it so good.

I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've ever paid in my life.

I do not do my own taxes. It's too many forms. "Here are my 70,000 forms. I have no idea."I would be in jail.

I don't like paying taxes, same as everybody else.

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.

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

I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy.

You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.

Imagine his delight after it 'leaked' that he will propose raising taxes on the wealthy by $320 billion over the next 10 years, including increases to the capital gains and inheritance taxes.

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

When Obama talks about raising taxes on the rich, he's looking at me.

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.

We rule out raising taxes this year.

I'm not for raising taxes on anyone - period.

Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn't pay taxes.

Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.

Whatever you tax you get less of.

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

A bet is a tax on bullshit; and it is a just tax, tribute paid by the bullshitters to those with genuine knowledge.

Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!

Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods.

Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.

In a way, Calvin Coolidge is better than Reagan. His tax rates were lower, and he cut budgets.

Coolidge thought budgets were virtuous. He had his econ straight. He didn't just cut taxes, he also cut the budget.

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.

When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

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

I won't raise taxes, because I do not want to punish the people for the politicians' mistakes.

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

Another big promise Donald Trump made during the campaign - cutting taxes. But there's some confusion over how much he wants to cut.

The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business.

My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes that they should be paying higher taxes.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

I will eliminate capital-gains taxes for the small businesses and the startups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow

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

We've got an extraordinarily complex tax system that's full of loopholes that are exploited by special interests. I'd like to see those loopholes closed.

I very much believe in reforming the tax system.

In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.