Tax Quotes · Page 9

It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia.

— Richard Flanagan

Maybe I should get back to the music-writing phase and write one on tax reform.

— Orrin Hatch

My early years as a political activist were dominated by the poll tax.

— Nicola Sturgeon

Lowering the middle-class tax rate... will likely lower work efforts and increase government dependence.

— Edward Conard

There's also no doubt that tax evasion rises along with taxes.

— Michelle Steel

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

— Daniel Webster

Fewer people working means permanently lower tax revenues.

— Christina Romer

I am very open to looking at potential tax changes to improve housing affordability.

— Gladys Berejiklian

If we completely repealed the estate tax, it would provide an estimated $32 billion tax break for the Walton family - the…

— Bernie Sanders

My biggest worry is that Obama says he's going to tax the upper 5 percent by raising their taxes by 20 percent.…

— Chuck Norris

Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with…

— Amity Shlaes

It has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the…

— James Roosevelt

Instead of a universal basic income, we could have a basic income guarantee. Or, as economists prefer to call it, a negative…

— Rutger Bregman

The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move…

— Thomas Sowell

I proposed a Universal Care Entitlement, which would guarantee a decent level of care to all paid for out of tax.

— Damian Green

When a common man is discouraged to buy a movie ticket, it becomes a concern for the entire film industry. I think…

— Manoj Bajpayee

I have a very strong tool in competitional enforcement: To do merger control, to look into cartels, misuse of dominant position -…

— Margrethe Vestager

The truth is, our corporate income taxes are some of the highest in the world, and frankly, in my judgment it's unpatriotic…

— Jim Jordan

Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Obama says he wants to do…

— Grover Norquist

Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of…

— Nancy Gibbs

Trump has been criticized by mainstream Republicans for not really being one of them. But he is definitely one of them when…

— Joseph Stiglitz

I would give relief from the first $10,000 of the payroll tax. I would allow small businesses to accelerate depreciation so they…

— Bob Graham

The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling…

— Bob Barr

Barack Obama is not Harry Truman, who dropped the A-bomb on Japan to stop World War II. Barack Obama is not John…

— Monica Crowley

I got five kids - I claim three for income tax purposes.

— Tracy Morgan

I don't blame anybody for using the tax code to their advantage.

— Lindsey Graham

Gary Cohn doesn't care about the estate tax, I can guarantee you. I can guarantee you.

— Gary Cohn

The Liberal carbon tax is just about raising revenue for government.

— Andrew Scheer

Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits.

— Bernie Sanders

I have not purposely gone out to try to avoid paying income tax.

— Harry Redknapp

If no estate tax is imposed, capital gains taxes can be avoided indefinitely.

— Richard Thaler

I think a flat tax has merit. Anything would be better than the current tax code.

— Bob Beckel

A gas tax could be one important element of an integrated energy policy.

— Alan Mulally

The payroll tax is affecting sales. It's causing sales declines.

— Fred DeLuca

The Death Tax destroys American jobs and cripples small businesses and family farms.

— Tommy Tuberville

Republicans don't seem to mind taking inflation into account when the subject is tax rates.

— Timothy Noah

My No. 1 priority is growth in the economy. Tax reform will be our first and most important part of that.

— Steve Mnuchin

I look forward to continuing our work to deliver real tax relief for all Virginians.

— Glenn Youngkin

We are for pension reform, jobs, the flat tax, and justice reforms.

— Matteo Salvini

What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.

— Thomas Piketty