Taxes Quotes · Page 145

Revenues should be increased not by increasing the tax rates on the individual but by building a bigger economy for everybody.

— Ronald Reagan

I used to do my own taxes. You know how you buy that gigantic sheet at Staples, add up the restaurants, clothes,…

— Heidi Klum

With various people complaining about "price gouging?... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused…

— Thomas Sowell

Increased revenues, meaning higher taxes, will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan, and President Obama is right to…

— Steven Rattner

India is a huge democracy. Prime Minister [Narendra] Modi has ambitions to try to fix the infrastructure, the rules, taxes, education, and…

— Jamie Dimon

The Assembly passed a budget that makes the right choices for young students across the state by helping schools avoid cutting essential…

— Jose Peralta

[Donald Trump] campaigned on an enormous tax cut, and he campaigned on a deregulatory agenda.

— Rich Lowry

[Barack Obama failed to sell a health care reform plan to American voters] because the utter implausibility of its central promise -…

— Charles Krauthammer

It was an easy thing to tax for a young country. And then gradually we moved to property taxes, manufacturing taxes, and…

— T.R. Reid

The country doesn't owe you anything because you're an American or especially because you have a college degree. Now, if you think...…

— Rush Limbaugh

There are significant differences between the American and European version of capitalism. The American traditiionally emphasizes the need for limited government, light…

— Margaret Thatcher

When you hear a politician say 'fair share,' you are talking about hypocritical political propaganda. You are not talking about an intelligent…

— Steve Wynn

I think we ought to call (Republicans who sign the Norquist no tax pledge) exactly what they are - they are traitors…

— Bill Press

The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed…

— Michael Parenti

No government can guarantee security. It can only tax production, distribution and service and gradually crush the power to pay taxes. That…

— Henry Ford

A homeless man once told me that dancing to rap music is the cultural equivalent of masturbating, and I'd sort of fell…

— Chuck Klosterman

The billionaires pay an effective tax rate lower than nurses or truck drivers. That makes no sense at all. There has to…

— Bernie Sanders

There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income.

— Will Rogers

I believe that hardworking people should retain as much of the money as they can in terms of the taxes that they…

— Karren Brady

Republicans are not going to play I-told-you-so, but it is pretty obvious that the tax reductions passed in 2003 helped Americans dig…

— Marsha Blackburn

Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on…

— Grover Norquist

If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system.

— Bob Taft

The far right want Muslims to leave Europe - to, in their words, 'go back home.' However, we have no home other…

— Humza Yousaf

We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for…

— Sandra Steingraber

Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it:…

— Frederic Bastiat