Taxes Quotes · Page 29

Putting, say, an 85 per cent income tax rate is unlikely to bring in much revenue.

— Angus Deaton

You can tax the rich all you want. The problem is there aren't enough of the rich.

— Bob Packwood

We're failing when it comes to controlling spending.

— Lindsey Graham

I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy.

— John Boehner

We will also never bring up the permanent tax cut the president is advocating.

— Tom Daschle

The only party which is going to increase taxes after the election is the Labor Party.

— Tony Abbott

Taxing corporations means unnecessarily burdening our wealth-creating machines.

— Maxime Bernier

Wouldn't propose new taxes, but won't pledge against taxes.

— Mike Huckabee

We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll.

— E. J. Dionne

I have advocated for rolling back regulations, simplifying the tax code and moving to zero-based budgeting - policies that will support small…

— Carly Fiorina

It is unfortunate we were put in the position where the Republicans made it clear they were ready to let everything fall…

— Joe Biden

If there are healthy - and growing - numbers of people working and paying taxes, we are better able to pay the…

— Nicola Sturgeon

The government’s not going to create jobs. It doesn’t have to. People have to create jobs...

— Bob Dylan

Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote…

— Thomas Jefferson

Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.

— Pat Buchanan

I am aware of what the position is in the United States of America. If somebody gives to charity, then he gets…

— Nelson Mandela

Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84…

— Paul Ryan

I never had a checkbook. It used to be cash in hand, stuff in the pocket, or a manager would keep some…

— Iggy Pop

Climate change might be disastrous, but does that mean we want carbon taxes that raise the price of a gallon of heating…

— Alex Berenson

The statement, "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to cut social spending" is presented as…

— Linda McQuaig

I believe, as a matter of principle, that the debt is a problem that must be addressed sooner rather than later. I…

— Mick Mulvaney

We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts.…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Is it popular to pay our debts, to do justice, to defend the injured and insulted country, to protect the aged and…

— Thomas Paine

Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. And the reason I am able to do…

— Uwe Boll

Well, I don't think it is amnesty to start with. Second of all, what do you want to do with them? That…

— John McCain

Some of the worst abuses of government force in recent years were precipitated by technical and victimless gun-law violations. For example, the…

— Dave Kopel

I think that some of today's focus on freedom of information and trans rights have a tendency to focus on the actions…

— Chelsea Manning

My assessment of Julian Assange is a professional one, really, of what he's managed to achieve, and the idea that he came…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Is money money or isn't money money. Everybody who earns it and spends it every day in order to live knows that…

— Gertrude Stein

We're going to have to invest in the American people again, in tax cuts for the middle class, in health care for…

— Barack Obama

We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for…

— Sandra Steingraber

I would like to see ... an entirely different procedure which is that we vote on the budget and decide how much…

— Millicent Fenwick

“The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes. – Albert Einstein”

— Tom Wheelwright

We've already donated to Haiti. It's called the U.S. income tax.

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Becca Fitzpatrick

You [Hillary Clinton] are going to approve one of the biggest tax cuts in history.

— Donald Trump

Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.

— Jim Ramstad

There is regressivity built into the tax code by virtue of its complexity.

— Wendy Long

Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.

— Tony Abbott

“Making money is one thing, paying tax is another.”

— Habeeb Akande