Taxes Quotes

In Quebec, we can no longer increase taxes if we want to stay competitive.

Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.

Today the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison with the 20's, but the high cost of today's living and taxes takes a huge bite out of these salaries.

My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, 'Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don't put everything in one basket,' but she let me explore and be creative.

Higher projected corporate and personal income tax receipts and lower public debt charges.

Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.

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

And that does concern me, because we're not getting enough back for our taxes that we're paying. I think we really have to look at the whole sort of area.

I think there are people watching me, and if ever I manage to save £1,000 there's someone saying, 'Oh, we'll invent a tax to take that off him'.

I do think there is room at the very top for marginal tax changes.

In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.

I've built companies, I've created jobs, I know the frustration of small businesses with higher taxes.

HALF of America pays NO taxes. Zero. So they're happy for tax rates to be raised on the other half that DOES pay any taxes.

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

I voted to repeal the government takeover of health care that raises costs, increases taxes, spends trillions of dollars that we don't have, cuts Medicare by $500 billion, and destroys jobs.

Nobody told me when I became a Democrat that that involved opposition to lower taxes.

Do you work for the government, any government?” "I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.

Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.

I will continue my consistent record of voting for lower taxes, less spending and fewer regulations to make our government more effective and efficient while upholding our Constitution.

In Europe, it's common to hear about young professionals living with their parents. With the continent's high rents and taxes and its population density, it makes sense.

A lot of the people that are poor take advantage of loopholes and pay no taxes.

Now, people have a hard time understanding how taxes work.

If Donald Trump had said something like I'm going to raise taxes on the middle class, it would be all over the news. You would be questioning his sanity.

First of all, she Hillary Clinton is going to raise taxes on the middle class. I actually think that's the only truthful thing she's said in about three weeks.

As far as I'm concerned, the people who aren't paying taxes don't get to run around claiming that they built everything, that the built the roads and that they built the bridges and so forth.

I am interested in tax policy that raises money because I don't like being in debt.

If you have the desire, if you really had people with the burning desire to lower taxes, it would be done. We know the Democrats don't want to do it.

All it takes is Harry Reid saying a friend told him [Mitt] Romney hadn't paid his taxes in ten years and it's over. But these kinds of things aren't gonna work on [Donald] Trump.

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.

I love B.C., but you know what taxes are like in Canada.

War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.

I'm from California, I know what's up with this. You keep raising people's taxes eventually they are going to say no.

Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. But do you want your kids to get a good education? You have to pay for that. Do you want Medicare for senior citizens? I do. We have to pay for it.

Americans of all ages are earning less than they did two decades ago when adjusted for inflation. Yet they’re paying more in taxes.

I will cut all state taxes by at least one third.

The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.

France, they're the world champion at soaking the rich on taxes. And at one point, they had what they called a hyper tax, 75 percent, and Gérard Depardieu and many others left the country.

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.

The U.S. has the most complicated and difficult tax system in the world; we've made it hard to file and pay taxes.

Corporations use all sorts of complex stratagems to move their profits overseas, and thus escape the U.S. income tax.

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.

If you want less of something, tax it. If you want more of something, don't tax it or reduce the tax burden.

I got tired of my taxes paying for exciting little wars around the world. Then I discovered that when I died, my wife would probably have to sell our house to pay for the taxes in America.

Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for that county to the legislature.

Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.

Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.

It is a general idea, that when taxes are once laid on, they are never taken off.

Simply cutting the taxes for America's wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to succeed in the future.

You [Republicans] are not going to cut taxes. You're going to raise taxes on the middle class.

Donald Trump started this campaign in 2014 he said if I run for president I'll absolutely release my taxes.