Taxes Quotes · Page 62

A great deal has been said about my commitment not to raise taxes. It's a core value - it's common sense -…

— Tim Pawlenty

It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.

— Will Rogers

Americans deserve a simple, fairer, and flatter tax code that jumpstarts our economy, helps create jobs, and makes America a leader again.

— Kevin Brady

Same sex marriage isn't gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don't.

— Ricky Gervais

Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they…

— Bette Midler

...deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations

— Jonathon Porritt

Bad spending, to me, in terms of its economic benefit, would be wealth transfer payments. It's a misallocation of resources.

— Mick Mulvaney

We all want to know what taxes we would pay under [Donald Trump] tax plan. That's a question.

— Kellyanne Conway

Your profits are going to be cut down to a reasonably low level by taxation. Your income will be subject to higher…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing…

— Gloria Steinem

The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the…

— Craig Benson

It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and…

— Dan Ariely

All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless…

— H. L. Mencken

Countries, therefore, when lawmaking falls exclusively to the lot of the poor cannot hope for much economy in public expenditure; expenses will…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

People are tired of working longer hours for lower wages, of seeing decent paying jobs go to China and other low-wage countries,…

— Bernie Sanders

He who has annexed them [some principalities], if he wishes to hold them, has only to bear in mind two considerations: the…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

And I just think that we're at a point in our economic life here in our state - and - and, candidly,…

— Chris Christie

It appears to be uncertain whether the journey of Mary with her husband was obligatory or voluntary. . . . Women were…

— Frederic Farrar

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. All three are processes in which useful or…

— Seth Lloyd

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we…

— Benjamin Franklin

The real reason to abolish departments like Energy and Education is not to promote efficiency, nor even to save taxpayers’ money. It…

— David Boaz

We're going to build a wall. Donald Trump never said it's going to go from one end of the country, from the…

— Jeff Sessions

New Hampshire has always been cheap, mean, rural, small-minded, and reactionary. It's one of the few states in the nation with neither…

— Alexander Theroux

This Iraq war has been the most "privatized" war in America's history. It has seen the most extensive use of contractors. The…

— Joseph Stiglitz

There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that…

— Grover Norquist

In 1950, American families sent 1 of 50 of their hard earned dollars to Washington: Today it is 1 in 4.

— John Ensign

If you give me $100bn now, I can't use it. There is not only money, there is talent and experience. That's why…

— Abiy Ahmed

[Donald Trump] campaigned on an enormous tax cut, and he campaigned on a deregulatory agenda.

— Rich Lowry

I don't think most Americans understand that, for certain very wealthy people, our federal income tax system is a subsidy system that…

— Hillary Clinton

We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax.

— Dick Spring

I think there are people watching me, and if ever I manage to save £1,000 there's someone saying, 'Oh, we'll invent a…

— Richard Griffiths

If the Lord had meant us to pay income taxes, he'd have made us smart enough to prepare the return.

— Kirk Kirkpatrick

High tax rates are followed by attempts of ingenious men to beat them as surely as surely as snow is followed by…

— Arthur Melvin Okun

The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.

— James Monroe

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your…

— Christopher Hitchens

The real problem with the IRS is that they let General Electric not pay any taxes -- and 50 other corporations --…

— Michael Moore

I love when problems have simple solutions. Cold medicine. Umbrellas. Condoms. Tax incentives & subsidies attracting favored industries.

— Greg Fitzsimmons

Efforts to ease regulations and reform the nation's tax system have helped put this self-sustaining recovery on track, The numbers prove our…

— Shinzo Abe

I'm asking Congress to pass my Zero Down Payment Initiative. We should remove the 3 percent down payment rule for first time…

— George W. Bush

What Mae West said about sex is true about taxes. All tax cuts are good tax cuts; even bad tax cuts are…

— Grover Norquist