Taxes Quotes · Page 100

The United States tax system today is very prejudiced towards financialization, leverage, and lack of investment.

— Frederick W. Smith

We need to change our tax code so that people like me & an awful lot of Members of Congress, pay our…

— Barack Obama

I am now at the age where I can withdraw a 25 per cent tax-free lump sum. I do not put in…

— Anthea Turner

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

— Robert Quillen

“The art of taxation consists of plucking the goose so as to obtain the most feathers with the least hissing.”

— Jean-Baptiste Colbert

You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.

— Ronald Reagan

So much for not raising taxes on the middle class... Reality is setting in for many who voted for another 4 yrs.

— Anonymous

Tax reform has been a congressional priority for decades. It should be a bipartisan issue. I don't know why anyone in Congress…

— Matt Gaetz

I'm actually not in favour of decriminalizing cannabis -- I'm in favour of legalizing it. Tax and regulate. It's one of the…

— Justin Trudeau

Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years…

— Eugene Jarecki

Obama wants to take the individual small business tax to 44 percent, and the corporate rate - he says - down to…

— Grover Norquist

Did you know that Puritanism went hand in hand with dirt, that Oliver Cromwell put a 100 per cent tax on soap…

— Robertson Davies

President Obama's call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is…

— Rick Perry

Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline…

— Luis Gutierrez

Al Gore has made no serious attempt to level the playing field for U.S. agriculture exports, which have fallen 16 percent in…

— Dan Quayle

The income tax only taxed the Rockefellers, the Morgans and the Vanderbilts. It was aimed at the top 4 percent, and the…

— T.R. Reid

I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.

— Kinky Friedman

Municipal debt outstanding doubled in the past 10 years. And in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been in real economic nirvana.

— Meredith Whitney

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

— Robert Orben

The American people care about the fact that we have $17 trillion in debt and 10 percent of every tax dollar that's…

— Carol Roth

I'm always trying to tackle subjects that tax me and make me think. That's the key to staying young at heart. The…

— Clint Eastwood

Congress has changed the Social Security system over time, and over 20 times in the past Congress has raised taxes on Social…

— Chris Chocola

We've got an extraordinarily complex tax system that's full of loopholes that are exploited by special interests. I'd like to see those…

— Barack Obama

Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be…

— Arthur Frederick Saunders

Government jobs are not an addition to the country's payroll; they are an increase in the nation's payload.

— Ilana Mercer

There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.

— Cullen Hightower

Even with multiple instruction books, maneuvering the maze of the tax code is costly and time-consuming.

— Mike Crapo

We have seven months before the election. Our top priority as fiscal conservatives is to make sure President Obama retires.

— Ron Johnson

My friend Paul Ryan talks about fiscal responsibility, but voted to put two wars on a credit card.

— Steny Hoyer

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of…

— William Hague

We ought to pay down the national debt, ... The American people are tired of people who make promises about cutting taxes…

— John McCain

It always depends on who you work with. It is not about the budget, not about the countries but about people.

— Ana de Armas

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

— Will Rogers

One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.

— Hillary Clinton

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

We think we can't survive without deficit spending - but we soon won't be able to survive with deficit spending, either.

— Tony Blankley

I'm conscious of competitive issues, but at the same time the recommendation they make is that we protect citizens by not adding…

— Christy Clark

The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American?

— Cullen Hightower

Under Obama, our federal tax dollars can now be used to fund abortion all over the world. With the stroke of a…

— Rick Perry

“Every culture has some ritual for joining two people together and making them stay that way, and ours is giving tax breaks.”

— Bauvard