Taxes Quotes

“Even taxpayers have rights!”

— Beric J. Croome

Tax reform should happen rather quickly.

— Donald Trump

Don't tax more than you have to.

— Francis X. Suarez

Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.

— James Cook

We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.

— Rick Perry

Read my lips: no new taxes.

— George H. W. Bush

Taxes are never popular.

— Luis Videgaray Caso

Born free. Taxed to death.

— Christopher Titus

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy.

— Grover Norquist

I don't blame anybody for using the tax code to their advantage.

— Lindsey Graham

[T]he burden of government is not measured by how much it taxes, but by how much it spends.

— Milton Friedman

Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?

— Padgett Powell

By the way, my tax cut is the biggest since Ronald Reagan. I'm very proud of it.

— Donald Trump

I've never seen class warfare as nasty as it is today, as a result of tax debate.

— Bernard Goldberg

But Tolkien doesn't ask the question: What was Aragorn's tax policy?

— George R. R. Martin

There's three things in life that's certain: Death, taxes, and 85 will always be open.

— Chad Ochocinco

The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since…

— Chris Van Hollen

The stimulus is our bridge over troubled waters. And if it's invested well, it'll generate a lot of economic growth, and we'll…

— William J. Clinton

[I]n framing a Government for a nation we ought, in those provisions which are designed to be permanent, to calculate not on…

— Alexander Hamilton

We have to say to the billionaire class, enough is enough. You cannot have it all. You are going to pay more…

— Bernie Sanders

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

— Andrew Mellon

Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal…

— Mike Pence

The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps,…

— Thomas Sowell

The anti-tax-cut, soft-on-defense, big-spending Democrats will take the Democratic Party to the edge and maybe over.

— Joe Lieberman

Besides the devastating impact that the Ryan budget has directly on individuals, it does nothing to support job creation or our global…

— Albio Sires

Many tax experts say a key element to any fundamental overhaul is getting rid of certain deductions for businesses - the 'special-interest…

— James B. Stewart

President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support:…

— Rob Portman

I think we should have basically the same tax policy that Germany, Japan, the U.K., everybody else has, which is a tax…

— Jeffrey R. Immelt

Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking…

— Paul Ryan

The American people have made it clear that they don't want more government control, expansion of the IRS, vaccine mandates, higher taxes,…

— Nicole Malliotakis

They're saying no. They're holding hostage the middle class tax cut to the super wealthy. And on top of that, they've got…

— Joe Biden

Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes,…

— Daniel Berrigan

It makes no difference to a widow with her savings in a 5 percent passbook account whether she pays 100 percent income…

— Warren Buffett

If you're a full-time manager of your own property - and full-time, according to Congress, is 15 hours a week - you…

— Hillary Clinton

So the Bush-Obama administration has taken a fiscal stance diametrically opposed to that of the patron saint of free enterprise. While escalating…

— Michael Hudson

I think that they hoped the private sector would come in. And the private sector tried to come in until they saw…

— Warren Buffett

Bliss—a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious—lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention…

— David Foster Wallace

Congress has all sorts of rules, hedge fund managers, private equity managers, executives, movie stars, fall into that allow them to escape…

— Hillary Clinton

You, as a wage earner have to pay your taxes every year on your income for that year. So if you have…

— David Cay Johnston

Barack Obama is talking about cutting taxes. On net, he is a tax cutter. But the difference between Obama and John McCain…

— Jared Bernstein