Taxes Quotes

It is the large brain capacity which allows man to live as a human being, enjoy taxes, canned salmon, television, and the atomic bomb.

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

Anti-Tax fetishist Grover Norquist owns a bust of Ronald Reagan, who raised taxes 11 times.

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

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

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.

What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes.

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.

We've seen an economy stifled by more taxes, more regulation, a war on coal and a failing health care reform come to be known as Obamacare and the American people know that we need to make a change.

Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.

The tax system is stacked against the average taxpayer.

I love America, but I can't spend the whole year here. I can't afford the taxes.

I think that my foundation uses the money better than the government does. In any event, I do pay taxes.

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden...something of which I am not proud.

If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist.

Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.

I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,' it's actually a 'false choice.

Let's lower our tax rates on our businesses so that we're on par with the rest of the world so that we don't keep losing our businesses.

You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of his head to carry.

That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.

You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.

I lowered taxes in New York. I reduced the size of government in New York. I took a $2.4 billion deficit and turned it into a $3.2 billion surplus. And I reduced taxes over 23 times or 23 times.

We don't have any miraculous way of avoiding taxes at Wesco and Berkshire.

People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes. The problem is that taxes aren't used efficiently.

Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.

The taxes of government are heavy enough, but not so heavy as the taxes we lay upon ourselves.

Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles reach into almost every aspect of American life.

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

When you're taxing bovine flatulence emissions, there's nothing left to tax.

I've always viewed high-frequency trading as a tax on the rest of us.

We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.

Natural fact is, I can't pay my taxes. Make me wanna holler and throw up on my hands.

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

Death and taxes are inevitable.

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.

No one is patriotic about taxes.

The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again and I'll say to them, read my lips, no new taxes.

Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.

The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.

Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes.

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.

[T]he State . . . gives idle capital the power of increase, and, through interest, rent, profit, and taxes, robs industrious labor of its products.

Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.

The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime.

Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems.

Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four times as much by our Folly.