Taxes Quotes · Page 52

Abolish all taxation save that upon land values.

— Henry George

Interesting thing about being rich is once you pay your taxes, you're still rich.

— Lewis Black

As long as you're a tax deduction, you'll always be safe in my house.

— George Lopez

What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes.

— Geoff Davis

War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.

— Samuel B. Pettengill

“...but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Contrary to what some folks might say, I do not want to raise taxes.

— John Bel Edwards

Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.

— Caldwell Esselstyn

Using tax payers' money to provide liquidity to Wall Street so that the country wouldn't head into a depression was the right…

— George W. Bush

Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes…

— William Goldman

We really need to change taxation policy so that it is not skewed against owning more than one house.

— Andrew Forrest

In some cities they tear down buildings to save taxes. They might try tearing down some taxes to save buildings.

— Ken Schoolland

While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.

— Herman E. Daly

Many people when they file their taxes, they count on the funds that they're going to get back from their tax returns.

— Karine Jean-Pierre

You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then,…

— David Rockefeller

My predecessor taxed wealthy, successful people at a higher rate than ever before. And what happened? They left. And what came of…

— Emmanuel Macron

We've been prepared to make the arguments for lowering corporation tax, which is all about encouraging risk takers, encouraging entrepreneurs, and I…

— Liz Truss

[In Mexico] they have a VAT tax. We're on a different system. When we sell into Mexico, there's a tax. When they…

— Donald Trump

The debate we won't be having is whether or not the debt ceiling should be raised. We will not have a situation…

— Jay Carney

Obama's Democrats have become the part of no. Real cuts to federal budget? No. Entitlement reform? No. Tax reform? No. Breaking the…

— Charles Krauthammer

Then, there are the places you would rather not go-a tax collectors' convention, a sewage treatment plant, or maybe the home of…

— Obert Skye

You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term…

— Anonymous

The presidents would...president would prefer raising taxes. I understand. The problem with raising taxes is that it slows down the rate of…

— Mitt Romney

President Obama has announced a task force to review the tax codes. He's concerned there are too many loopholes and too many…

— Jay Leno

I'm the strongest advocate you can imagine for doing things honestly and paying your taxes. Take advantage of every tax break you're…

— Michael Franzese

We can't afford to waste people. We can't afford to have people think the game is over before it's begun. We've got…

— Michael Ignatieff

Any Democrat who squirms on the tax-cut issue in the primaries has no chance ' zero ' to win the nomination. Each…

— Dick Morris

Contrary to any claim of a systematically “neutral” effect of taxation on production, the consequence of any such shortening of roundabout methods…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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

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

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

The American people will not tolerate a clean increase in the debt limit.

— John Boehner

Higher income people don't have to pay taxes if they don't want to.

— Rick Santorum

I had hundreds of thousands of dollars of tax penalties.

— Sia

Closing tax loopholes has to be part of the revenue equation.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

Taxpayer money should not have to be spent to save a misguided and mismanaged enterprise.

— Henry Paulson

You don't pay taxes; they take them from your check. That's not a payment - that's a 'jack.

— Chris Rock

Peace and prosperity are inversely proportional to the level of taxation.

— John Pugsley

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.

— Mike Fitzpatrick