Taxes Quotes · Page 93

We can't legislate the creation of jobs, but we can legislate things that will allow jobs to be created.

— Mike Lee

When you talk about taxing the rich, you're taxing capital, and taxing capital results in damage to more than just the wealthy.

— Rush Limbaugh

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

— Jim Ramstad

I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty.

— Saul Bellow

“Whether it is a corporate bailout or a student bailout, politicians are incentivizing bad financial decisions by stealing from people who made…

— Colin M. McGroarty

The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities…

— Stephanie Tubbs Jones

If you date, you will meet your share of weirdos and jerks. That is as sure as death and taxes.

— Greg Behrendt

I shall easily show that it is impossible to tax further, ruinous to be always borrowing and not enough to confine ourselves…

— Charles Alexandre de Calonne

Puerto Rico loses out on billions of dollars annually because it is treated unequally under a range of federal programs, including tax…

— Pedro Pierluisi

The people who are having the hard time right now are middle-income Americans. Under the president's policies, middle-income Americans have been buried.…

— Mitt Romney

Unlike fuel-economy standards, the most common method of reducing demand for oil over the past thirty years, a gas tax doesn't tell…

— James Surowiecki

It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a…

— Richard Neal

The debt ceiling debacle is almost a horrible metaphor: It's as if a bomb went off at 800 Pennsylvania Avenue and sent…

— Charlie Cook

Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him…

— Grover Norquist

If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than…

— Michael Bloomberg

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up…

— Barack Obama

I don't get money from the vitamins that I make. My after tax profits go to a foundation that supports integrative medicine.

— Andrew Weil

[Tim] Kaine, in Virginia, you know he wasn't popular?His first move as governor of Virginia was to raise taxes by 4 billion…

— Donald Trump

Examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt.

— Tony Blair

No one in America fully understands the constantly changing Internal Revenue Code. Agents of the IRS do not, judges do not, congressmen…

— G. Edward Griffin

Obama Supporters Angry Over Tax Increases. I knew it. They were dumb enough to think it would only be the rich.

— Anonymous

Two things you need to know about taxes. They've extended the deadline to April 18, and when you write your check, just…

— David Letterman

I will release my tax returns - against my lawyer's wishes - when she releases her 33,000 e-mails that have been deleted.…

— Donald Trump

We need a tax code that truly helps working Americans trying to get a leg up in the new economy.

— Barack Obama

All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch…

— Walter E. Williams

Each and every year, the United States loses an estimated $100 billion a year in tax revenues due to offshore tax abuses…

— Bernie Sanders

Trump's junk economics is the illusion that if we cut the taxes on the wealthiest brackets, it'll all trickle down. But it…

— Michael Hudson

The U.S. has the most complicated and difficult tax system in the world; we've made it hard to file and pay taxes.

— T.R. Reid

One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire…

— Barack Obama

If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would…

— David Stockman

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

— Robert Menzies

I have no problem paying taxes. It doesn't bother me, because I want to live in a society that's happy.

— Deborah Meaden

Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people…

— Andy Rooney

New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry…

— J. D. Hayworth

The budget compromise should leave us freer to focus on creating new jobs, not creating new crises.

— Barack Obama

The largest tax reduction in American history, one page tax form, reducing government spending. Those are all the keys to economic progress.

— Rudy Giuliani

If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm…

— Alexi Giannoulias

If I want to build wealth to transfer to the next generation, I can let it grow on a tax-free basis.

— Arthur Nersesian

If giving tax breaks to millionaires created jobs or grew our economy, I would be in favor of them, but they are…

— Tim Walz

A new report says that last year Colorado collected $44 million in marijuana taxes. Unfortunately, they can't remember where they put it.

— Conan O'Brien