Taxes Quotes · Page 107

Because of fiscal responsibility, we will keep taxes low and maintain important priorities like IPERS.

— Kim Reynolds

What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what…

— Elaine Stritch

It's time to permanently lower America's tax gate so that the $2 trillion in stranded U.S. profits can flow back into America…

— Kevin Brady

I was warned by the private sector that we would fail and would fail badly. 'The state can't run a railway,' I…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.

— Lord Chesterfield

Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.

— Ronald Reagan

Policies seemed almost deliberately designed to suppress new enterprise and job creation. How many Americans will start a business if the interest…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Two things suck about becoming an adult male - paying taxes and getting a finger in your butt.

— Guy Code

Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending…

— Martin Feldstein

It's a tough path to citizenship. You've got to pay back taxes. You've got to learn English. You've got to have a…

— John McCain

Why is an accountant who knows the regulation and codes and takes advantage of tax loopholes that save you thousands of dollars…

— Michael Gray

I want to break up the Wall Street banks. Hillary Clinton doesn't. I want to raise the minimum wage to 15 bucks…

— Bernie Sanders

Taxes are how we pool our money for public health and safety, infrastructure, research, and services-from the development of vaccines and the…

— Holly Sklar

My mission will be to improve life across Massachusetts, including communities and geographies that are seeing a slower economic recovery. Lower and…

— Charlie Baker

We have to adjust the age retirement for younger people. People of my income level are going to have to have their…

— Lindsey Graham

When you look at February's (2011) deficit spending alone, and the fact that it was larger than what our total deficit spending…

— Kristi Noem

Whoever is running the country should not be in the pay of a foreign interest. The best way is to see tax…

— Bill Foster

Coolidge thought budgets were virtuous. He had his econ straight. He didn't just cut taxes, he also cut the budget.

— Amity Shlaes

I do not want to impose additional taxes on the employers at a time when our economy is very fragile and we…

— Susan Collins

The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.

— Arnaud Montebourg

The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without…

— Anonymous

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its…

— Robert Half

Only one thing can save this country, and that's to get a handle on this deficit and debt issue.

— Mitch McConnell

Under my plan, 85 percent of America will pay no tax or have a flat tax at our lowest rate of 15 percent.

— John McCain

The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.

— Jack Markell

POTUS already got tax increases. Now he wants more tax increases to fund more bloated government spending. Not going to happen.

— Anonymous

Whenever God's will is in the ascendant all compulsion is gone. When we choose deliberately to obey Him then with all His…

— Oswald Chambers

This vice brings in one hundred million francs in taxes every year. I will certainly forbid it at once - as soon…

— Napoleon III

For President Donald Trump, questions about transparency start with his taxes, and why he's breaking with tradition and not releasing his returns.

— John Yang

Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.

— Patrick McHenry

This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher…

— Adam Hasner

If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying that you want a country based on Christian…

— Anonymous

Think about that. Two hundred and eighty-five new or expanded programs, $2 trillion more in new spending, and not one new bureaucrat…

— George W. Bush

The media's apoplectic reaction to 2018 tax refunds displays a fundamental misunderstanding of the U.S. tax code and the very notion of…

— Kayleigh McEnany

In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising.

— James Rosen

We need a tax code that propels businesses to success rather than punishing them for their success.

— Kay Ivey

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.

— Bill Gates

Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive . . . [It] reeks with injustice, and is fundamentally un-American

— Ronald Reagan

Clinton vetoed the repeal of the marriage tax. I guess Bill figures if he's married, then we all have to suffer.

— Jay Leno

Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!

— Peter Drucker