Taxes Quotes · Page 38

A lottery is the perfect tax...laid only upon the willing.

— George Washington

The lesson for the next U.S. president: Raise the taxes on fuel. A lot.

— Serge Schmemann

If you don't drink, smoke, or drive a car, you're a tax evader.

— Thomas S. Foley

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

— Randy Newman

Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes

— Franklin P. Adams

Multinationals don't pay taxes in Africa - we all know that.

— Mo Ibrahim

All capitalists should be like Warren Buffett, and he says he should be taxed more.

— Ed Asner

Gradual fiscal consolidation may also be stimulative in the short run.

— Glenn Hubbard

I'm from California, I know what's up with this. You keep raising people's taxes eventually they are going to say no.

— Sean Hannity

Politicians will always spend every penny of tax raised and whatever else they can get away with.

— Milton Friedman

While you're alive, the IRS will attempt to take what you've made. When you're not, the IRS will attempt to take what…

— Charles J. Givens

It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War…

— Robert Reich

I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise…

— Scott Walker

“the weakness of the middle class is holding back tax receipts, especially because those at the top are so adroit in avoiding…

— David Cay Johnston

If we think that high marginal tax rates are bad because they distort incentives, the same is then true for tax subsidies.

— Richard Thaler

It is admitted on all sides that we must equalize the revenue and expenditures. The scheme of borrowing to make up an…

— John C. Calhoun

An unrealized capital gains tax will empower the federal government to access the private transactions of Americans, needlessly expand bureaucracy in Washington,…

— Byron Donalds

If you look at the fact that the best chance we have for a good economy is the private sector. The government…

— Tim Scott

Now, I do think when we move into 2012 and '13 when, presumably, the economy is on firmer ground, I would allow…

— Mark Zandi

It's not about what the speaker wants. It's not about necessarily what I want. There's two other principles involved here. It's what…

— Tim Huelskamp

We've spent half the expenditures, we've wrecked our budget on all these other domestic programs, and the only justification for it, in…

— John F. Kennedy

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of…

— Gore Vidal

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty:…

— Ruth Ann Minner

And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all…

— Mitt Romney

I don't want to stand with somebody's praise. Whereas now when people come up to me, they say, "I love the bookstore"…

— Ann Patchett

..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the…

— Peter Drucker

This is where there's a difference, because Governor Romney's central economic plan calls for a $5 trillion tax cut, on top of…

— Barack Obama

I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many…

— Joan D. Chittister

It is impossible to manage the health care requirements of tens of millions of American citizens at the federal level. It is…

— Frederick W. Smith

perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems…

— Barack Obama

Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is…

— Paul Krugman

Donald Trump has broken his first promise [to release taxes]. Second he stood on this stage last week and when Hillary said…

— Tim Kaine

We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem.

— Mark Zandi

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

— Lindsey Graham

I pay about a third in taxes, I give away about a third, and I follow the law.

— Ray Dalio

I'm a conservative who likes small government and lower taxes.

— Charlie Sykes

Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.

— Thomas Jefferson

Tax reform is a once-in-a-generation opportunity.

— Max Baucus

...and that's what separates the professionals from the taxpayers

— Jason Kidd

You don't raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

— Jason Chaffetz