Taxes Quotes · Page 59

We're paying maybe 25 percent of the income tax, but the payroll tax is over a third of the receipts of the…

— Warren Buffett

We made our entrance into Paris. As for honors, we received all that we could possibly imagine; but they, though very well…

— Marie Antoinette

Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

It's responsible for the sloppiness and imprecision of the War on Terror, for example. It's responsible for taking people's tax dollars and…

— Timothy Hallinan

Let's take the nine states that have no income tax and compare them with the nine states with the highest income tax…

— Arthur Laffer

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty:…

— Ruth Ann Minner

You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that…

— Anonymous

I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest…

— Chris Christie

In high-tax New York, in high-tax California, the governors of those states are constantly offering tax breaks, tax exemptions to any number…

— Rush Limbaugh

The corporations who invest in lobbyists, it pays in terms of tax loopholes, tax subsidies, all the rest. It pays. Clearly, the…

— Mark Shields

You cant tax business. Business doesnt pay taxes. It collects taxes.

— Ronald Reagan

The fact is that Democrats are not for tax cuts.

— Rosa DeLauro

I don't see traffic fines as a substitute for a commuter tax.

— Robert James Thomson

It's not hard to cut taxes.

— David Bonior

Nothing in this life is certain aside from death, taxes and English literature graduates writing in the Guardian and spoiling your enjoyment…

— Ash Sarkar

I expect to see trade wars, foreign policy disasters, a few race riots, a decrease in personal liberty, higher taxes, higher inflation…

— Charley Reese

Donald Trump is the first candidate ever to run for president in the last 40-plus years who has not released his tax…

— Hillary Clinton

Today, a large part of Peru's revenues come from mining. Many big mining companies only pay income tax, but they extract minerals,…

— Ollanta Humala

We gotta control inflation, quit spending our money on everything. But this years tax increase, why it's the biggest in history.

— Hank Williams, Jr

I think it's important to look at what we need to do to get the economy going again. That's why I said…

— Hillary Clinton

I cut the taxes on everybody. I didn't cut them. The Congress cut them. I asked them to cut them.

— George W. Bush

Undoubtedly Internet has reduced the possibilities of taxation. Why should I buy something here if I can buy it from a company…

— Milton Friedman

People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is.

— Barack Obama

I pledge that I have no intention of raising taxes in my second term.

— William J. Clinton

The enactment of the Homestead Act would create the strongest tie between the citizen and the Government-he would with cheerfulness contribute his…

— Andrew Johnson

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

— Calvin Coolidge

If Hillary [Clinton] is elected, is she going to be able to jack up taxes with virtually no deductions, and include capital…

— Gary Shilling

Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do, the Florida dream is over. They claim that we…

— Marco Rubio

Input of public judgement for any major tax reform.

— Newt Gingrich

When we are relaxed and reasonable content, we are naturally wise. We accept that life is unpredictable, unreliable. We say jokingly or…

— Sylvia Boorstein

Wealthy individuals bought themselves a radical right party, believing - correctly - that it would cut their taxes and remove regulations, but…

— Paul Krugman

Say did you read in the papers about a bunch of Women up in British Columbia as a protest against high taxes,…

— Will Rogers

As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to…

— Alexander Hamilton

I realize what it means to be financially comfortable, and I want to be that. But I'm lucky enough to be in…

— David Duval

Having a friend like you could conceivably be some sort of tax deduction.

— Anonymous

If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.

— David Ricardo

There is only one way to kill capitalism - by taxes, taxes, and more taxes.

— Karl Marx

Contrary to the rhetoric emanating from the American left, the 'rich' are currently paying a lot more than 'their fair share.' It…

— Peter Schiff

So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes,…

— Paul Ryan

If you're a rich guy, the best thing you can do is demand tax increases on the rich. That way the poor…

— Rush Limbaugh