Taxes Quotes · Page 105

“Death and taxes are the only two certainties in life, as Mark Twain once said. Or was it Benjamin Franklin?”

— Stephen Leather

Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk.

— Warren Buffett

An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.

— Matt Taibbi

We should tax every company's carbon footprint and the carbon footprint of every building and home, to incentivize people to reduce their…

— Philip Kotler

If you grow that economy, you increase the tax base, you increase the revenue that you can spend on anti-poverty measures.

— Humza Yousaf

Business is global. Countries need to react to that; taxes need to be paid where profit arises.

— Mo Ibrahim

Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.

— Sheldon Richman

Trickle-down economics does not work, and tax reform should not be defined as partisan tax cuts for the wealthy and huge corporations.

— Jacky Rosen

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell…

— Barack Obama

A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal enjoyments, it only shifts…

— Antoine Destutt de Tracy

hy is it you can impose a new tax and keep your economy growing? Only if you cut other taxes by exactly…

— Christy Clark

I know hedge-fund guys that are making hundreds of millions of dollars a year and pay no tax. And I want to…

— Donald Trump

Tax day was yesterday. And marijuana growers are complaining that they can't write off a single expense thanks to federal laws. Well,…

— Conan O'Brien

In real estate you can avoid ever having to pay a capital gains tax, decade after decade, century after century. When you…

— Michael Hudson

I don't act because I love doing it, I act because it's my job. At the end of the year, I gotta…

— Clint Howard

With taxes, if they aren't working right, we can change them with a stroke of the pen. It's basically a market-type mechanism.…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

If Britons were left to tax themselves, there would be no schools, no hospitals, just a 500-mile-high statue of Diana, Princess of…

— Andy Zaltzman

Congratulations on your salary or work hours being reduced enough to improve your tax bracket.

— Anonymous

The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.

— Grover Norquist

Any politician promising not to raise your taxes is like a vampire promising to become a vegetarian.

— Pierre Poilievre

A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries…

— Nick Clooney

I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.

— Lucy Stone

If you ask people do you think that government should spend less money than what it takes in, most people agree with…

— Michele Bachmann

Simply cutting the taxes for America's wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to…

— Tim Johnson

Make no mistake, the point of cutting the personal income tax and the capital gains cut is to send an unmistakable message…

— Bill Richardson

We all either work for rich people or we sell stuff to rich people, so just punishing rich people is as bad…

— Rand Paul

There are some Republicans who say that any time you raise new revenue, you have to have a tax cut to match…

— Jeff Flake

It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment…

— Christine Gregoire

The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.

— Thomas Jefferson

The only reason people lock their car doors when Obama walks by is they are afraid he'll tax them to death . . .

— James Woods

U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.

— Robert Breault

Congress realized that it was inherently unfair to penalize Americans by requiring them to pay taxes on taxes they had already paid.

— Tom Suozzi

Getting the budget balanced, regulatory reform, tax reform - I think these lead to economic growth.

— Todd Young

You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in…

— Steve Chabot

Raising spending caps without offsetting the costs elsewhere continues the trend of running up the federal deficit with no end in sight.

— Dean Phillips

You've got to think about how to do things for the right price. You have to shoot in different places to be…

— Brett Ratner

Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes.

— Burton Malkiel

Britain needs a simpler tax system which is simple to understand, where there are no loop-holes, where the very rich do not…

— George Osborne

Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting…

— Felix Dennis

I'm working alongside the White House and other members in the House to lessen the tax burden that currently weighs on so…

— Markwayne Mullin