Taxes Quotes · Page 106

How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?

— Will Rogers

The capital gains tax is 15 percent now. So I sit there in my office and I make a lot of money…

— Warren Buffett

Relative to the world's other advance democracies, Americans get off easy on tax day. Of the 35 richest countries, the U.S. ranks…

— T.R. Reid

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

— Julie Bishop

The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.

— Anonymous

Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes.…

— Paul Ryan

You can't top that remark for hypocrisy or the setting for irony. It isn't the middle class who write $32,500 checks. Those…

— Jack Kelly

Nine times out of ten, people consider a nice little Jewish boy the kid who grows up and sits behind a desk…

— Bill Goldberg

To reduce repossessions caused by unemployment, Gordon Brown needs to look at cutting the rate of corporation tax for small companies to…

— Grant Shapps

It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending…

— Wilfrid Laurier

If you have a debt issue or credit card issue, start dealing with it. If you have a tax issue, don't just…

— Hill Harper

We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

Quality of life is the sum total of the fairness of our tax structure; the caliber of our homes; the cleanliness of…

— Tom McCall

My point is cutting spending shouldn't be reliant on the debt limit though. It's something we have to do. The good news…

— David Plouffe

In relation to the immense sacrifices that the state demands of the individual through the blood tax, it seems rather incidental whether…

— Ludwig von Mises

We know through the process of energy independence, our whole geopolitical footprint changes in terms of our national security and how we…

— Anthony Scaramucci

For small businesses, you need less taxes, less federal spending, and you need less regulation that blocks their growth.

— David Malpass

Simply looking at the status quo and suggesting that the tax code is sacrosanct and can never change, and that decisions made…

— Jeff Fortenberry

Tax reform exists, sort of, as an outline - miles away from being actual passed legislation.

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors…

— John B. Anderson

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict…

— Anonymous

History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.

— Pete Sessions

Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which…

— Alfred de Musset

Here's a brave old reality, taxes don't go away; raising them never generates revenue, never ever ever.

— Neil Cavuto

You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of…

— Huey Long

In my view, until the U.S. tax policy is revised, not just tax extenders but the reform of tax policy, it makes…

— Louis R. Chenevert

I believe the benefits of tax reform should flow to those who most need them most - hard-pressed working families struggling to…

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

The ability to defend yourself is a basic necessity like food and water. We exempt food and water from the sales tax.

— Matt Shea

Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

— Larry Elder

There were 23 or 24 separate tax cuts during the Giuliani administration. I'd love to be able to equal that.

— Joe Lhota

Public unions are the country's foremost advocates for increased taxes at all levels of government.

— Jonah Goldberg

Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.

— Zach Wamp

It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that…

— David Stockman

Thats one of the challenges of investing in China, is the lack of clarity with respect to tax positions.

— Jim Oberweis

The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to…

— Robert A. Heinlein

If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.

— Pat Toomey

Inflation has ... become the cruelest tax, destroying the value of the dollar and adding new costs to every purchase.

— Ella T. Grasso

I understand that the legal position is under review in South Africa and that there will soon be a broader set of…

— Nelson Mandela

The laws of normal economics dictate that lower taxes combined with increased spending will lead to bigger deficits.

— Joseph Stiglitz

When the Liberals said they were going to create a million new jobs, I didn't think they were all going to be…

— Harry S. Truman