Tax Quotes · Page 9

We Liberal Democrats don't believe we should use the tax structure to champion just one type of family.

— Charles Kennedy

It is always better to tax bad things than good things.

— Joseph Stiglitz

Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money.

— Laura Miller

There are a lot of things you can say about the Bush tax cuts, but you can't say they didn't work.

— Phil Gramm

Most people don't realize the amount of tax forms the small business guy has to go through.

— Rick Harrison

I don't know why anyone would prefer a more complicated tax code instead of a simpler one.

— Matt Gaetz

Temporary tax cuts don't create permanent confidence, nor permanent jobs.

— Mark McKinnon

Demanding that the rich get a tax cut as a condition for tax relief for others is simply elitist.

— Richard Thaler

Tax laws favor capital over labor, giving capital gains a lower rate than ordinary income. The rich get humongous mortgage interest deductions…

— Robert Reich

When I see the sort of mindless tax cuts for the wealthy, cuts to education, I just think we've got it exactly…

— Bill Foster

Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.

— Robert Reich

People who prepare false or fraudulent tax returns risk criminal prosecution and, upon conviction, substantial time in jail.

— Dana Boente

It would be a tragic mistake for Congress ever to adopt any public or tax policy which encourages mothers to assign child…

— Phyllis Schlafly

Ed Sheeran? I don't like the fact he gets a lot of stick. I like the fact he works hard, and God…

— Richard Ashcroft

Truly landmark pieces of legislation - including the Social Security Act, Medicare, and the Kennedy and Reagan tax reductions - historically have…

— Linda McMahon

Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and…

— Bill Delahunt

I think the ethos for Gov. Romney is to use a whole variety of policies, of which tax policy is one, to…

— Glenn Hubbard

On the issues that I care deeply about - the environment, Roe vs. Wade, the war in Iraq, with no weapons of…

— Lincoln Chafee

Everybody gets ticked off about GE paying no taxes. Look, we have a complicated, convoluted tax system. And only big corporations and…

— Joe Walsh

And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our…

— John Perkins

I like Ronald Reagan, who didn't play crass politics, and he just articulated and delivered on broad themes that were needed. Free…

— Dave Brat

The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates,…

— Ben Bernanke

The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code…

— Barney Frank

By allowing super wealthy corporations and individuals to avoid paying their fair share of tax, tax havens are denying governments' revenue that…

— Winnie Byanyima

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

— Mitt Romney

“There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes.”

— Anonymous

I'm like tax. You're going to pay one way or the other.

— Shaquille O'Neal

Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending.

— Steve Chabot

Any time you do tax reform, you really need to have a transition period.

— Thom Tillis

The secreting of wealth in tax havens is often justified as 'legitimate tax planning.'

— Prashant Bhushan

Tax cuts are one of many ways to stimulate the economy. Building infrastructure, for example, is another.

— Richard Thaler

Republicans spend and borrow, Democrats tax and spend.

— Stan Jones

A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con.

— Tony Abbott

I think that our tax system is an example of the many ways in which working people have been betrayed.

— Zohran Mamdani

A single tax return for Quebecers will eliminate unnecessary paperwork for families and businesses.

— Andrew Scheer

The American people expect their government to manage their hard-earned tax dollars responsibly.

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

Putting, say, an 85 per cent income tax rate is unlikely to bring in much revenue.

— Angus Deaton

Labour are determined to create a fair, sustainable tax system in an economy that works for everyone.

— Clive Lewis

I have got gold secure all the time so income tax people will not be able to take the gold from my…

— Bappi Lahiri

There is regressivity built into the tax code by virtue of its complexity.

— Wendy Long