TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
The tax rate of 35 percent is impossible to provide an incentive to the large corporations, that have $1.7 trillion offshore, to… — Frederick W. Smith Copy Share Image
People want to know that they're going to get tax relief and Donald Trump has promised that. — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
I solemnly swear that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to the Queen when she pays her income tax — Dennis Skinner Copy Share Image
“Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them. ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By the way, when I say cut taxes, I don't mean fiddle with the code. I mean abolish the income tax and… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The zero-income-tax-rate states have far faster growth in tax revenues than did the states with highest income tax rate over this period. — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But, as environment minister, I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry, because I can only pay for the rising… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
So we want to change the tax system. We want it to be fair, and we want to see some tax relief… — Todd Tiahrt Copy Share Image
The present tax codes inhibit the mobility and formation of capital, add complexities and inequities which undermine the morale of the taxpayer,… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
My first year on 'SNL', I made $90,000 dollars. And I bought a red Corvette for $45,000 dollars. I'm thinking, 'I've got… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
Unless I go through my nighttime routine of telling my body it's time to go to bed, for some reason if I… — Mat Fraser Copy Share Image
I love listening to these guys give us lectures about debt and deficits. I inherited a trillion-dollar deficit. ... This notion that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
...in terms of business mistakes that I've seen over a long lifetime, I would say that trying to minimize taxes too much… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Trump himself stands to benefit dramatically from the tax cuts. One of the things they're cutting is the alternative minimum tax. Last… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
Government intervention in the economy - through taxes, regulation and, most importantly, currency inflation - causes distortions and misallocations of capital that… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
In enforcement, you always have to have both a focus on the really worst actors - you know, gang bangers, in this… — Mark Krikorian Copy Share Image
“There is no social upheaval that will really affect them. If you’re comfortably middle-class, what’s the worst a government policy could do?… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“The latest Congressional Budget Office figures show that the top 1 percent of income earners in the United States paid 39 percent… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
The most extreme types, like Murray Rothbard, are at least honest. They'd like to eliminate highway taxes because they force you to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Advocates of a tax overhaul often point to the 1986 act as a model for a comprehensive approach that ushered in a… — James B. Stewart Copy Share Image
A growth strategy requires tax rates that people are prepared to pay and cannot avoid or do not wish to avoid by… — John Redwood Copy Share Image
The unpopularity of raising corporate or personal income tax has been a straight jacket constraining Labour's thinking on how best to invest… — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
Not raising the debt ceiling does not trigger a default, because we've got enough money to service our debts. Default is when… — Ted Yoho Copy Share Image
Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes, your first thought will be to… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
It's two days until tax time. I know it's late, but there is still time to deduct this show as a loss. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change. — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
The reason educational spending in Texas is so low is because you don't have a state tax there, and that's why Texas… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened. — Pete du Pont Copy Share Image
The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I am in favor of reforming our tax code. It's over-burdensome. It's complex. It's unfair. But the one thing that we have… — Dan Donovan Copy Share Image
Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity. — Thomas H Kean Copy Share Image
To me, a tax heaven is where everyone pays their fair share. In that respect, I am not quite sure we are… — Margrethe Vestager Copy Share Image
The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
While deficits are often inflationary and always pernicious, curing them by raising taxes is equivalent to curing an illness by shooting the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
