Taxes Quotes

What we don't need is more spending, and what we don't need are taxes, and what we do need is a lot less of both.

Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.

For all long-term investors, there is only one objective-maximum total real return after taxes.

I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.

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.

Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

The problem with the economy isn't that people aren't paying their fair share of taxes.

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil

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

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

Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.

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

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

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.

Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.

[T]hese tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans are also the tax cuts that are least likely to promote growth.

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

A great deal has been said about my commitment not to raise taxes. It's a core value - it's common sense - it's important to keeping and growing jobs - and it's mainstream!

Well, I think lower taxes and less regulation would actually promote growth.

OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.

The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.

The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way.

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

If you raise taxes during a recession, you head to depression.

The American colonies, all know, were greatly opposed to taxation without representation. They were also, a less celebrated quality, equally opposed to taxation with representation.

You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.

The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors.

Give me a break - They say taxes are inevitable, like death. At least death doesn't come every year.

I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia.

Higher energy prices act like a tax.

By requiring that any surplus in Social Security taxes be returned to the American people in personal savings accounts, the plan ensures that Social Security taxes will be used for Social Security.

For me, I think being a conservative means you are focused on all four key principles: strong defense, lower taxes, less spending, and defending traditional American values.

Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.

No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.

Hollywood's schizophrenia over guns is matched only by their attitude toward taxes. Ever wonder why they film in Vancouver so often? It ain't for the beaches, I can tell you.

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.

Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels of government took less than 10% of our income.

I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.

If Congress doesn't raise taxes, you cannot get a private investment account without forgoing a portion, possibly all, of your guaranteed benefit check.

Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose you more money than any single person in your life, with the possible exception of your kids

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people

This is the disease in America. It's not just spending. It's not just taxes. It's not just corruption. It is progressivism. And it is in both Parties. It is in the Republicans and the Democrats.

Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.

Taxes are the sinews of the state.

The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea that's failed every time it's been tried.

When taxes are too high, people go hungry.

Congress should know how to levy taxes, and if it doesn't know how to collect them, then a man is a fool to pay the taxes.