Taxes Quotes · Page 87

U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.

— Robert Breault

Getting the budget balanced, regulatory reform, tax reform - I think these lead to economic growth.

— Todd Young

Congress realized that it was inherently unfair to penalize Americans by requiring them to pay taxes on taxes they had already paid.

— Tom Suozzi

Raising spending caps without offsetting the costs elsewhere continues the trend of running up the federal deficit with no end in sight.

— Dean Phillips

Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes.

— Burton Malkiel

You've got to think about how to do things for the right price. You have to shoot in different places to be…

— Brett Ratner

An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.

— Matt Taibbi

Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk.

— Warren Buffett

Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat…

— Bertolt Brecht

Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say'…

— Greg Perry

Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye…

— Karl Rove

In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent,…

— Joe Biden

“You see all this is Indian money, we don’t pay taxes here,’ he remarked. ‘So whatever is being done with the money…

— Sanjoy Hazarika

“There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree…

— Isabel Paterson

I can't micromanage what anybody pays or doesn't pay. But the concept that half of the public isn't involved with the income-tax…

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're…

— Fareed Zakaria

I love babies. I think they are beautiful in all sorts of different ways. I try to pick up and hold a…

— Michael Scott

I'll give you a simple formula for straightening out the problems of the United States. First, you tax the churches. You take…

— Frank Zappa

If you grow that economy, you increase the tax base, you increase the revenue that you can spend on anti-poverty measures.

— Humza Yousaf

We should tax every company's carbon footprint and the carbon footprint of every building and home, to incentivize people to reduce their…

— Philip Kotler

Business is global. Countries need to react to that; taxes need to be paid where profit arises.

— Mo Ibrahim

Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.

— Sheldon Richman

Trickle-down economics does not work, and tax reform should not be defined as partisan tax cuts for the wealthy and huge corporations.

— Jacky Rosen

If Britons were left to tax themselves, there would be no schools, no hospitals, just a 500-mile-high statue of Diana, Princess of…

— Andy Zaltzman

Congratulations on your salary or work hours being reduced enough to improve your tax bracket.

— Anonymous

The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.

— Grover Norquist

Any politician promising not to raise your taxes is like a vampire promising to become a vegetarian.

— Pierre Poilievre

A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries…

— Nick Clooney

I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.

— Lucy Stone

Simply cutting the taxes for America's wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to…

— Tim Johnson

If you ask people do you think that government should spend less money than what it takes in, most people agree with…

— Michele Bachmann

We all either work for rich people or we sell stuff to rich people, so just punishing rich people is as bad…

— Rand Paul

Make no mistake, the point of cutting the personal income tax and the capital gains cut is to send an unmistakable message…

— Bill Richardson

There are some Republicans who say that any time you raise new revenue, you have to have a tax cut to match…

— Jeff Flake

Here's a brave old reality, taxes don't go away; raising them never generates revenue, never ever ever.

— Neil Cavuto

Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which…

— Alfred de Musset

In my view, until the U.S. tax policy is revised, not just tax extenders but the reform of tax policy, it makes…

— Louis R. Chenevert

You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of…

— Huey Long

Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

— Larry Elder

I believe the benefits of tax reform should flow to those who most need them most - hard-pressed working families struggling to…

— Raja Krishnamoorthi