Taxes Quotes · Page 43

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

Taxpayers shouldn't have to spend all day waiting in line to untangle red tape.

— Jon Husted

The New York Times' coverage of Trump's taxes is an emperor-has-no-clothes moment.

— Brian Stelter

One thing that Washington D.C. does not do well is cut spending.

— Mark Meadows

Closing tax loopholes has to be part of the revenue equation.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

Taxpayer money should not have to be spent to save a misguided and mismanaged enterprise.

— Henry Paulson

You don't pay taxes; they take them from your check. That's not a payment - that's a 'jack.

— Chris Rock

Peace and prosperity are inversely proportional to the level of taxation.

— John Pugsley

It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.

— Will Rogers

Americans deserve a simple, fairer, and flatter tax code that jumpstarts our economy, helps create jobs, and makes America a leader again.

— Kevin Brady

Same sex marriage isn't gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don't.

— Ricky Gervais

Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they…

— Bette Midler

...deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations

— Jonathon Porritt

Bad spending, to me, in terms of its economic benefit, would be wealth transfer payments. It's a misallocation of resources.

— Mick Mulvaney

We all want to know what taxes we would pay under [Donald Trump] tax plan. That's a question.

— Kellyanne Conway

There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that…

— Grover Norquist

We need a wealth tax that on a one-time basis is going to take back at least some small fraction of the…

— David Stockman

It does not help the vast majority of Americans, but it does really well for people already at the top. Well, we're…

— Hillary Clinton

Our international banking system allows banks to accept funds gained from tax evasion and other crimes and thereby facilitates and encourages embezzlement…

— Thomas Pogge

When we're done simplifying the tax code, getting the lobbyist carve outs our of the tax code, lowering our rates and letting…

— Paul Ryan

We cannot collect enough taxes to catch up with spending. Do I know a solution? Not really. Do your politicians know a…

— Rick Santelli

Not a whole lot of us are wrestling somebody for a canned food item in the supermarket or having an ax fight…

— Robert Sapolsky

Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools…

— William Penn

Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles…

— Ron Paul

If I were a candidate for running, I'd say, "Look at what the economy has done." It's strong. We've created a lot…

— George W. Bush

“The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life...The government does not, indeed,…

— Lysander Spooner

Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic…

— John F. Kennedy

If the people of God were to transform the world through fascination, these amazing teachings had to work at the center of…

— Shane Claiborne

The problem is that everybody, everybody - Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, everybody - on the Republican side said they can't do tax…

— Rush Limbaugh

I argued last year on my shared blog that selling the right to immigrate would be the best approach to legal immigration.…

— Gary Becker

Americans spend about 6 billion hours a year collecting the data and filling out the forms. We spend $10 billion to H&R…

— T.R. Reid

Well, here you had a city that was selling more cars than ever before, that had this wondrous music being created, that…

— David Maraniss

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

— Benjamin Franklin

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.

— Mike Fitzpatrick

Tax rates should never be raised in some brackets without being raised in all brackets.

— Bradley A. Smith

As far as my tax returns, you don't learn that much from tax returns.

— Donald Trump

A flat tax is roughly the same as a sales tax.

— Bob Frank

I think it is wrong to balance the budget on the backs of local government.

— Nina Turner

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

— Herbert Spencer

I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.

— Wendy Cope