Taxes Quotes · Page 23

Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

I don't see why anybody's playing chicken with the debt ceiling.

— Austan Goolsbee

I always heard criticism is the tax on fame. They were right. And then some.

— Brad Pitt

It's time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children.

— Bill Nelson

If you can't get tax breaks, then there's no reason to film in a city or state.

— William Fichtner

Raising taxes won't create private sector jobs.

— Marco Rubio

I think the terror most people are concerned with is the IRS.

— Malcolm Forbes

I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.

— Calvin Coolidge

If a group of people - leaders - can convince a group of folk who barely have a pot to piss in…

— Lewis Black

Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.

— Gore Vidal

Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.

— Tom Daschle

We ought to thank President Bush. He made it a lot easier for people to do taxes this year. No job, no…

— Jay Leno

It's widely accepted that it is reasonable for a government to use tax policy to change behaviour.

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

I have advocated an entirely different approach than cap and tax, which would be worldwide in application and which emphasizes technology as…

— Jim Sensenbrenner

When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give…

— Henry David Thoreau

Why should 'big sports' get tax breaks that businesses and families across America don't get?

— Matt Gaetz

I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches?…

— George Carlin

If you've been here 15 years and you've got three kids and grandkids and you've been paying taxes and obeying the law,…

— Newt Gingrich

We decided to set our direct-action program around the Easter season, realizing that, with exception of Christmas, this was the largest shopping…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In Ireland here, the Revenue Commission have always been completely independent of the state since 1923, and they are quite adamant and…

— Enda Kenny

Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and…

— Lars Feld

The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,000 and should be phased out…

— Mark Zandi

If it turns out that the Mayans are right and the world is going to end, you know what this means? Lindsay…

— Jay Leno

Actually, I have been very supportive of a very robust stimulus package from day one. I think this economy has to have…

— Judd Gregg

The state has been living on a revenue which was being produced in the private sphere for private purposes and had to…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

We are under the stifling regulation and taxes of a predominantly left-wing type of thinking and philosophy. The eight years of Barack…

— Rush Limbaugh

My tax plan will cut taxes for 95 percent of workers, because we need to put money back into the pockets of…

— Barack Obama

One of the most important things for a country, particularly when it's seeking to attract long-term capital in big risky projects that…

— Malcolm Turnbull

We're not going to give tax breaks to billionaires and then cut back on the needs of our elderly or poor or…

— Bernie Sanders

This was years ago, I think during the early [Ronald] Reagan years. I came up with a plan that everybody just pay…

— Dave Barry

In Canada, we have a very good structure of supporting film through a number of government-sponsored initiatives, such as the tax credit…

— Alfons Adetuyi

From 2008 to 2016 all the growth in the American economy, all the growth in national income, was earned just by the…

— Michael Hudson

Nobody told me when I became a Democrat that that involved opposition to lower taxes.

— Robert Torricelli

I'd think people would want me to follow the law and pay only what the tax code requires.

— Mitt Romney

We will have a massive, massive tax increase under Hillary Clinton's plan.

— Donald Trump

You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

— Jason Chaffetz

Not over my dead body will they raise your taxes.

— George W. Bush

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

— Terry Pratchett

Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.

— Amity Shlaes

Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!

— Harold H. Greene