Taxes Quotes

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.

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

I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it.

ONCE UPON A TIME when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith.Valentine Michael Smith was as real as taxes but he was a race of one.

You can never really own real estate for instance; if you think you can, just try not paying your property taxes for a few years.

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

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.

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

I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.

The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.

Another difference between death and taxes is that you don't have to work like fury to pay for the dying you did last year.

The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.

Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.

Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens.

There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade.

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.

Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive.

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.

I like to come to Washington, D.C., at least once a year. Why should my tax money travel more than I do?

I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!

Taxes are an investment in America.

The United States has a huge budget deficit so taxes are going to have to go up and I certainly agree they should go up more on the rich than everyone else. That - that's just justice.

Why is it fair that I should be paying a higher percentage of taxes than anyone else?

It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling.

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.

When I bought out my first autobiography I received the biggest tax bill of my life.

The only certain things in life are death and taxes!

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.

The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.

The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes

My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes.

I like the power given the Legislature to levy taxes, and for that reason solely approve of the greater house being chosen by the people directly.

Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.

We can push Montana forward and we can do it with out raising taxes.

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.

I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.

It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.

Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes.

If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to support half the community who own no land and pay no taxes.

When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise them. That's statesmanship of the highest order.

People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.

I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes.

All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget.

When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut.

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance.

Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.

Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.