Taxes Quotes · Page 89

Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.

— Patrick McHenry

If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying that you want a country based on Christian…

— Anonymous

This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher…

— Adam Hasner

Think about that. Two hundred and eighty-five new or expanded programs, $2 trillion more in new spending, and not one new bureaucrat…

— George W. Bush

The media's apoplectic reaction to 2018 tax refunds displays a fundamental misunderstanding of the U.S. tax code and the very notion of…

— Kayleigh McEnany

In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising.

— James Rosen

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.

— Bill Gates

We need a tax code that propels businesses to success rather than punishing them for their success.

— Kay Ivey

Coolidge was a pragmatist. He didn't start out with a tax theory. But he observed over time that lower tax rates sometimes…

— Amity Shlaes

The amount of money coming into Washington is not a factor when the Democrats start spending it. Witness Obama. National debt doubled…

— Rush Limbaugh

What we need to do is replace the entire tax code. I do not think it makes sense to say, 'Let's just…

— Barry Diller

Multi-millionaires who pay half or less than half of the percentage of tax the rest of us pay justify their actions by…

— Simon Sinek

Where's my tax form? Where's the file that's supposed to hold my W-2 form and interest statement? Where's the mileage log I…

— Cathy Guisewite

When scandal has new-minted an old lie, Or tax'd invention for a fresh supply, 'Tis call'd a satire, and the world appears…

— William Cowper

Many years ago, I went with my husband and daughter to Denmark. In those years, you could bring $400 worth of furniture…

— Ruth Westheimer

Government budgets are no different than our own at home. We must operate within our means, make fiscally responsible decisions, and invest…

— Mike Parson

Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive . . . [It] reeks with injustice, and is fundamentally un-American

— Ronald Reagan

Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!

— Peter Drucker

Clinton vetoed the repeal of the marriage tax. I guess Bill figures if he's married, then we all have to suffer.

— Jay Leno

I was warned by the private sector that we would fail and would fail badly. 'The state can't run a railway,' I…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.

— Lord Chesterfield

Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.

— Ronald Reagan

Policies seemed almost deliberately designed to suppress new enterprise and job creation. How many Americans will start a business if the interest…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Coolidge thought budgets were virtuous. He had his econ straight. He didn't just cut taxes, he also cut the budget.

— Amity Shlaes

I do not want to impose additional taxes on the employers at a time when our economy is very fragile and we…

— Susan Collins

Whoever is running the country should not be in the pay of a foreign interest. The best way is to see tax…

— Bill Foster

Two things suck about becoming an adult male - paying taxes and getting a finger in your butt.

— Guy Code

The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.

— Arnaud Montebourg

The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without…

— Anonymous

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its…

— Robert Half

Only one thing can save this country, and that's to get a handle on this deficit and debt issue.

— Mitch McConnell

Under my plan, 85 percent of America will pay no tax or have a flat tax at our lowest rate of 15 percent.

— John McCain

The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.

— Jack Markell

This vice brings in one hundred million francs in taxes every year. I will certainly forbid it at once - as soon…

— Napoleon III

POTUS already got tax increases. Now he wants more tax increases to fund more bloated government spending. Not going to happen.

— Anonymous

Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His…

— Oswald Chambers

For President Donald Trump, questions about transparency start with his taxes, and why he's breaking with tradition and not releasing his returns.

— John Yang

I feel like there's this misconception that immigrants come here and just don't care about the system and paying taxes, and that's…

— Diane Guerrero

Going forward, my mind will be open to every solution - except one. We should not - we must not - and…

— Jim Doyle

A lot of really smart, wealthy people know that [slashing taxes on the wealthy hasn't worked.]

— Donald Trump