Taxes Quotes · Page 99

Richmond liberals have figured out too many ways to separate taxpayers from their hard-earned money.

— Glenn Youngkin

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.

— Christina Romer

If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay…

— Will Rogers

A fairer system bases itself on actual outcomes - if you earn more you pay more, through progressive income tax.

— John McDonnell

Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.

— Bill Delahunt

Arnold Schwarzenegger made his tax returns public, [and] now there's a problem about him stretching the truth. Apparently under occupation he put…

— Jay Leno

The better an entrepreneur succeeds, the more is he vilified and themore is he soaked by taxation.

— Ludwig von Mises

I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

— Michele Bachmann

Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class,…

— Ellen Tauscher

Our tax code becomes so absurdly complex every 32 years that we have no choice but to scrap it and re-write. The…

— T.R. Reid

I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue…

— Tom Allen

If the present tax rates had been in effect from the beginning of our century, many who are millionaires today would live…

— Ludwig von Mises

We need to simplify our tax code. We need to make sure that it's not too cumbersome for people to be able…

— Kristi Noem

Broaden the tax base, close loopholes and flatten the tax rates - all of which would bring more revenue stability and certitude…

— David Harsanyi

You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government…

— Jennifer Pahlka

There are no checks and balances if the gov is wrong. If a private entrepreneur makes a mistake, he goes bankrupt, the…

— Peter Schiff

Revenues should be increased not by increasing the tax rates on the individual but by building a bigger economy for everybody.

— Ronald Reagan

Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the…

— Karl Marx

Growth means creating the right conditions for the private sector - farmers and firms - to invest and do business.

— Hilary Benn

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

— Peg Bracken

People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share…

— Will Rogers

I think the rich should pay more in taxes - I agree with that 100 percent - but everybody should feel the…

— John Catsimatidis

Raising taxes is not our objective. It's bolstering and maintaining the country's defense capabilities.

— Fumio Kishida

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger…

— Mitt Romney

If you have the desire, if you really had people with the burning desire to lower taxes, it would be done. We…

— Rush Limbaugh

We have not recovered all that we lost in the Bush recession. That's why we need to continue to move forward.

— Martin O'Malley

We want to go back to a tax system where Americans sit down at their kitchen table, and they do their taxes…

— Gary Cohn

If there is one issue where one could justifiably assume that Republicans are all in agreement, it is on lowering taxes.

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible…

— Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea…

— Will Rogers

I think in 2012 one of the primary issues that will get a lot of discussion will be comprehensive tax reform.

— Tom Reed

After the government takes enough to balance the budget, the taxpayer has the job of budgeting the balance.

— Anonymous

Tax reform has been used as a crutch, as a smokescreen and as candy coating for the hard choices that have to…

— Sir Arthur Sullivan

In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according…

— Jay Leno

There certainly is a lot of political pressure for states to adopt the new federal tax codes. But there is no law…

— John Barry

Implementing the so-called 'Buffett Rule' would restore some badly needed fairness to our tax system.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

— H. L. Mencken

We're looking to make sure things are fair, and we're always looking at ways to lower taxes for the middle class and…

— Justin Trudeau

When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or…

— Ann Coulter

I think at the end of the day we have to raise the debt ceiling, because America pays its bills.

— Terri Sewell