Taxes Quotes · Page 65

If we want cut the deficit, let's talk about raising taxes on corporations and the wealthiest individuals - not putting air traffic…

— Jasmine Crockett

When you reduce taxes on higher earners it's vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation…

— William Hague

There are already current laws on the books and there are - and jurisdictions. The IRS can come in and do any…

— Paula White

I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.

— Peter Welch

“The worst of these are laws in nineteen states that let companies pocket the state income taxes withheld from their workers’ paychecks…

— David Cay Johnston

The payroll tax increase was destructive financially, it took what was a close call and made it a bad call,

— Mike McGavick

Budgets don't balance themselves, it takes fiscal discipline, and both the union and the government will have to show taxpayers that discipline.

— Pierre Poilievre

It is logical for a U.S. person to give their money away while they are alive, as the government will take it…

— Chuck Feeney

I have legally used the tax laws to my benefit and to the benefit of my company, my investors and my employees.…

— Donald Trump

In 2008, Goldman Sachs only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit of $2.3 billion…

— Bernie Sanders

In almost every enterprise, government has provided business with opportunities for private gain at public expense. Government nurtures private capital accumulation through…

— Michael Parenti

The way we are getting parts and services is just in time, at the last minute, into the U.K., and any major…

— Toto Wolff

The true principle of taxation is the benefit principle - those who benefit from a government service should pay for it. It's…

— Mark Skousen

While American taxes pay for much of the research and development that goes into creating the new, life-saving drugs, American consumers continue…

— Michael K. Simpson

I'm a true reactionary. Like all patricians, I'd like to restore the original republic, which we lost 40 years ago when Harry…

— Gore Vidal

Investor demand for distressed property has been healthy, as rents rise to levels that can cover investors' costs while they wait for…

— Mark Zandi

Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes,…

— Daniel Berrigan

I don't want to cost jobs. My priority is jobs. And so what I do is I bring down the tax rates,…

— Mitt Romney

Instead of ending U.S. military aid to the 23rd wealthiest country to use for its consistent violations of international law and human…

— Phyllis Bennis

The churches rose to power on the income from tax-free property. What earthly -or heavenly- right have they got to enjoy a…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

I trace the inequality to a particular set of decisions that we took when we lowered the tax rate from 91% down…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Even if Bush could be forgiven for taking America, and much of the rest of the world, to war on false pretenses,…

— Joseph Stiglitz

It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Where taxes are concerned, there are two clear-cut points of view. There are those who think they're too high and those who…

— Burt Prelutsky

In Washington, I will never vote to raise taxes, I will fight to repeal healthcare reform, and I will work to balance…

— Andrew P. Harris

I responded that we needed a private sector to improve the market situation and make peoples lives easier.

— Alexander Dubcek

Federal Taxes are not good, as a general rule, necessary for certain things like national defense and interstate commerce. That's all.

— Anonymous

I could juggle anything in my day. Balls, cigar boxes, knives...But there was one thing I could never juggle. My income tax.

— W. C. Fields

More taxes, more regulation, more Washington domination, more debt. Those things are not the future for America. They will never work.

— Jeff Sessions

An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits

— John F. Kennedy

Establishment idiots say the Trump tax cuts only helped the rich. Don't they understand anything about economics?

— Steve Hilton

Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.

— Marco Rubio

In times of huge fiscal deficits, no new revenues can be ignored, and renouncing any becomes well nigh politically impossible.

— Alan Patricof

If it was true that lower taxes for the rich and more wealth to the wealthy leat to job creation, today we…

— Nick Hanauer

We have historically tended to run fairly steady levels of government tax revenue as a percentage of gross domestic product and expenditures…

— Scott Bessent

A [tax loophole is] something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.

— Russell B. Long

Having a tax code that rewards companies that are shipping jobs overseas instead of companies that are investing here in the United…

— Barack Obama

It's unnecessary for elected officials to release their taxes because they are already required by law to submit a personal financial disclosure.

— Chris Collins

Let's face reality. To ensure Hong Kong remains competitive, we have to uphold a very low tax regime.

— Carrie Lam

I live in Vermont, and we don't have a tax incentive there, and therefore, we don't have professional crew there.

— Colin Trevorrow