Taxes Quotes · Page 63

I think we can have some tax reform, but that doesn't mean tax increases. We ought to make the, the rates flatter.…

— John Kasich

In a democracy the day when you pay your taxes, April 15, would be a day of celebration, because you're getting together…

— Noam Chomsky

When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise them. That's statesmanship of the highest order.

— Will Rogers

I think to balance the budget, probably every federal department has to take cuts in my opinion.

— David H. Koch

When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.

— Mae West

Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. But do you want your kids to get a good education? You have to pay for…

— Shelley Berkley

We need a smaller, leaner Washington. It won't happen if we raise taxes without any coinciding reform and serious slashing of spending.

— David Harsanyi

I think it's been unfortunate, but it's happened, that since the Great Recession, the gains have all gone to the top. And…

— Hillary Clinton

I know things like a 20% corporate tax rate will allow us to be more competitive in the global marketplace. That's what…

— Dennis Muilenburg

We need to enact fundamental tax reform. The weight and complexity of our 73,000-page tax code are crushing everyday Americans. We need…

— Carly Fiorina

Economists are almost unanimous in conceding that the land tax has no adverse side effects. ...Landowners ought to look at both sides…

— William Vickrey

Wall Street is being investigated, but they are not asleep while it's being done. You see where the Senate took that tax…

— Will Rogers

The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.…

— Ludwig von Mises

America must deal once and for all with an utterly irrational health care financing system that allows private interests to make billions…

— Suzanne Gordon

I have said that for incomes over $250,000 a year, that we should go back to the rates that we had when…

— Barack Obama

Any customer of government - whether it's with education, taxes, housing, or health care - understands the frustrations when they have a…

— Pete Hoekstra

The Clinton Foundation has had to refile their taxes. And I remember when the first report came, the reaction everybody had. "Well,…

— Rush Limbaugh

Where would we in Washington and we in America be without the Center? We would know much less about the workings of…

— Seymour Hersh

Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme…

— Edmund Burke

Conservatives believe in traditional values. Not because we want to impose our views on anyone, but because to abandon those values would…

— Marco Rubio

Opening a small business is a reasonable thing for you to do but should tax payer, should an ordinary worker have to…

— Dean Baker

Every generation has its war. I have just been reminded of mine. It ended in 1989, 43 years after it began, the…

— Simon Jenkins

We also need the provisions in the tax bill that will permit working mothers to increase the deduction from income tax liability…

— John F. Kennedy

We're going to cut taxes, deregulate to try to create general pro-growth conditions, at the same time, much more than any other…

— Rich Lowry

One of the best things about marijuana legalization: "I think the black market has been damaged. I think people are willing to…

— John Hickenlooper

In fact, presidents and vice presidents are automatically audited by the IRS, which hasn't stopped other chief executives from making them public.

— John Yang

I think it's scary for consumer confidence and for confidence in U.S. businesses and potential credit ratings if we don't make sure…

— Andy Jassy

Our opponents see an America in which every day is April 15, tax day. Well, we see an America in which every…

— Ronald Reagan

Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have…

— Chaka Fattah

It would be a lot cheaper for me not to have to raise tens of millions of dollars to elect progressive candidates…

— Chris Sacca

Danes pay very high taxes, but in return enjoy a quality of life that many Americans would find hard to believe.

— Bernie Sanders

Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.

— Sam Ervin

A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

— Anonymous

The American people deserve a tax code that helps small businesses spend less time filling out complicated forms.

— Barack Obama

Corporations and billionaires should pay their fair share while hard-working Texas families need a tax cut.

— Colin Allred

“They’d only been here for a couple of years, only employed twenty people all told, their two-year tax holiday was ending. Place”

— Cory Doctorow

Corruption is another tax on the consumer and it is the Maltese families who are forking the money to make up for…

— Joseph Muscat

Government is not capable of caring. Government gets things done through coercion. They fine, they penalize, they tax, they confiscate, they jail,…

— Rush Limbaugh

We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.

— Joe Scarborough

Here's my thinking: Since tax reform only occurs once a generation, let's not tweak what we have and call it a day.

— Kevin Brady