Taxes Quotes

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

Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.

But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes. [Fr., Mais dons ce monde, il n'y a rien d'assure que le mort et les impots.]

Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes.

The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes.

I do believe that billionaires and multi-millionaires should be paying more in taxes.

We have to say to the billionaire class, enough is enough. You cannot have it all. You are going to pay more in taxes.

Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.

The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.

A flat tax is roughly the same as a sales tax.

Higher taxes still does not create prosperity for all. And, more government still does not grow jobs.

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

I made 22 million in 14 years... with taxes, and travel and everything else, it gets blown out the window... which is why I still need to work.

Taxes are the flip side of expenditures. The same issues apply on both sides. There are questions of fairness and justice as much in the way you take money away as in the way you disburse it.

I can describe, and I've always been able to describe, what Republicans stand for in eight words, and the eight words are lower taxes, less government, strong defense and family values.

Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.

But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like George W. Bush did.

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

This is government's primary function - to keep us safe - and when large percentages in America don't feel safe, they start asking: What am I paying my taxes for? What is government all about?

Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.

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

That’s the last time I let Wesley Snipes help me out with my taxes!

Most people sell stock to pay taxes, but I didn't want to sell any stock.

Fewer people working means permanently lower tax revenues.

Tax what you burn not what you earn.

Writers should be able to fully deduct from their taxes all writing-related expenses, including alcohol, parking tickets, court judgments, fines for lewd public behavior, Zoloft, and cigarettes.

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.

This is Robin Hood in reverse. These tax cap proposals favor those with the most expensive properties. We are spreading the taxes to those with some of the least expensive property.

Another one of President Barack Obama's nominees is having tax issues, which proves one thing: The Democrats like raising the taxes, but they hate paying them.

I think that anybody who works and pays taxes ought to have a right for citizenship.

Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.

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

Estate taxes make every one of us nervous. If there’s an owner who isn’t, he has his head in the sand.

The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.

But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.

Are we ever going to have a federal tax system that regular people can understand?

The combination of Obamacare and taxes would be a disaster.

Ive never supported a payroll tax.

I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.

Have you seen a copy of Tax Tips for Billionaires?

It's tax season. When I woke this morning and realized it was tax season, I said, My God, didn't we just pay taxes last year?

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

I just don't think it's good public policy to tax fuel. It's kind of silly. It stops people from traveling and actually costs the economy more money than what you gain in the taxes.

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.

I think it's a little unfair for people to say you're not paying your fair share of taxes. I'm paying what I'm supposed to pay. Change the law, and I'll pay what I'm supposed to pay.

For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.

I don't think "Reganomics" will ever fully end. I mean, Reaganomics, to put it simply, was trying to get low taxes for wealthy people. And wealthy people are still there pushing for low taxes.

Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax.