Taxes Quotes · Page 53

Government does not create jobs. Government does not create jobs.

— Mitt Romney

Taking money in taxes and paying it straight back in subsidies is wrong.

— Sebastian Kurz

The only people helped by the death tax are lawyers, accountants, and IRS agents.

— Bob Schaffer

There will be no overall increase in the tax burden whatsoever.

— Tony Abbott

A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.

— Mark Twain

Sustainable jobs are created by the private sector.

— John Hickenlooper

The amount of debt we're adding, at a trillion a year, is simply not moral.

— Mitt Romney

The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.

— Jeb Hensarling

When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to…

— Tony Campolo

If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase.

— Matt Blunt

I am obligated to and will pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to the United States government,

— Eduardo Saverin

A tax on capital is self-defeating, in that it slows down capital accumulation, investment and economic growth.

— Maxime Bernier

Until lawmakers can disentangle property taxes from public education, inequalities - perpetuated by the Supreme Court and Congress - will persist.

— Clint Smith

What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.

— Thomas Piketty

Forget death and taxes. The only sure thing is that, win or lose, Don King is counting the money.

— Tim Witherspoon

We cannot continue to blow up the federal deficit and place our children and grandchildren in greater debt to countries like China.

— Tommy Tuberville

Every family in America knows they have to do a budget. Every small business in America knows they have to do a…

— John Boehner

The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can…

— Mitch Daniels

We just watched this budget debacle right? Seventy-three percent of Americans want to tax the rich. Why can't the politicians respond to…

— Bill Ayers

Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians…

— Juan Cole

Social Security may be the most beloved of all the government's programs, partly because it requires so little thinking. You pay taxes…

— Richard Thaler

President [Barack] Obama's staking his reelection hopes on rebuilding America's middle class. He wants higher taxes on the wealthy, tougher rules on…

— Chris Matthews

Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it…

— Howard Rheingold

I think when ordinary working people come home, turn on the TV and see a gala of a bunch of people at,…

— Stephen Harper

Assuming that a tax increase is necessary, it is clearly preferable to impose the additional cost on land by increasing the land…

— Herbert Simon

Welfare mostly subsidizes people in poverty, helping few escape from it. In their hearts, most people who are poor would like to…

— Cal Thomas

When you understand that your tax dollars pay for those tear gas canisters that were being fired into the crowd, and when…

— Lupe Fiasco

If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have: no federal meddling in our schools; no Federal Reserve; no U.S.…

— Ron Paul

President Lyndon Johnson's administration was known for his War on Poverty. President Obama's will become notable for his War on Prosperity. We're…

— Dick Morris

“should a legislator, wishing to impose a new tax, choose that which would be theoretically the most just? By no means. In…

— Gustave Le Bon

“Green recorded these initial thoughts about government: "Either the people will pay direct taxes, or they will pay none if they know…

— Michael Rubbinaccio

Our party [Republicans] has been focused on big business too long. I came through small business. I understand how hard it is…

— Mitt Romney

Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy.

— Mitch McConnell

The combination of Obamacare and taxes would be a disaster.

— David A. Siegel

Father was the most unreconciled taxpayer I ever knew.

— Gladys Taber

You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.

— George P. Shultz

I believe the tax on capital gains should be zero.

— Mitt Romney

The tax system is stacked against the average taxpayer.

— Edward Kennedy

A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.

— Anonymous

Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.

— Allan H. Meltzer