Taxes Quotes · Page 79

The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.

— Keith Ellison

I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically,…

— Daniel Tammet

If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn…

— Ronald Reagan

The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.

— Alice Rivlin

Raise the taxes, and we find less money in our pockets. Lower the taxes, and we've got more money in those pockets,…

— Fabrizio Moreira

Our balanced budget has an important psychological function. It is a signal that we can't continue to constantly take on debt.

— Wolfgang Schauble

The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment.

— Timothy Geithner

Get rid of the preferences and the special deductions and the loopholes... and invest in getting the tax rate to a competitive…

— Randall L. Stephenson

We see no justification in these economic times for those, and they're patriotic Americans. They're not asking for this continued tax cut.…

— Joe Biden

Those of us who understand human history know the role taxation has played in shaping the destiny of mankind. The matter of…

— Owen Arthur

We [the USA] have a $16 trillion debt which these tax increases will do nothing to solve and you will have at…

— Marco Rubio

We need to have the growth. If we simply look at this as being deficit-neutral, you're never going to get the type…

— Mick Mulvaney

The right way to deal with a budget problem that was years in the making is by formulating a credible plan to…

— Christina Romer

This is the world we live in, a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without love. A world where…

— Lauren Oliver

India is a huge democracy. Prime Minister [Narendra] Modi has ambitions to try to fix the infrastructure, the rules, taxes, education, and…

— Jamie Dimon

Women likely are rejecting Trump because they know the presidential race isn't just about taxes or ISIL or immigration. It's about their…

— Kirsten Powers

Obama does not believe in individual upward mobility. He would penalize it, tax it, regulate it, inveigh against it and disincentivize it.…

— Dick Morris

And most of all, it means continually drawing connections among these seemingly disparate struggles—asserting, for instance, that the logic that would cut…

— Naomi Klein

The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with…

— Thomas Jefferson

I regret that I must so continually use the word genius, as if that should apply only to a caste as well…

— Otto Weininger

There's a lot of money in selling marijuana. If you can do it legally, that's good. Why should all the criminals make…

— Willie Nelson

You know, people like Hillary Clinton think you grow the economy by growing Washington. I think most of us in America understand…

— Scott Walker

Whenever you get involved with talking about rights, you're talking about being a citizen. You're talking about being a citizen in capitalism;…

— Maggie Nelson

The tax upon land values is the most just and equal of all taxes. It falls only upon those who receive from…

— Henry George

I will not stand for any tax increase for middle class or working Americans. There is no way I will support that.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.

— James P. Hoffa

We will reduce the tax burden, simplify tax rules, and make life easier for those who want to produce, do business, invest,…

— Jair Bolsonaro

The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and Education appropriations…

— Dave Obey

Jesus never called the poor 'lazy,' fought for tax cuts for the wealthiest Nazarenes or asked a leper for a copay.

— John Fugelsang

Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

— Mignon McLaughlin

My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes.

— Anonymous

Even when you are right, there are costs and taxes associated with being tactical. When you are wrong, there are opportunity costs.

— Barry Ritholtz

The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea.

— Florynce Kennedy

If our tax system, as a whole, is progressive, then those with the broadest shoulders will make the greatest contribution, as it…

— Angela Rayner

There's only one kind of tax that would please everybody - one that nobody but the other guy has to pay.

— Earl Wilson

There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.

— Thomas Paine

Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility.

— Mary McCarthy

The president elect [Donald Trump] says that will lead to more investment and growth. Skeptics say the tax plan would explode deficits.

— Kelly McEvers

A lot of times in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And the facts are that thousands of small businesses-Hispanically owned or…

— George W. Bush

Tax reform done right will improve incentives to invest in U.S. production and to repatriate profits.

— David Autor