Taxes Quotes · Page 67

Municipal debt outstanding doubled in the past 10 years. And in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been in real economic nirvana.

— Meredith Whitney

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

— Robert Orben

I'm always trying to tackle subjects that tax me and make me think. That's the key to staying young at heart. The…

— Clint Eastwood

The American people care about the fact that we have $17 trillion in debt and 10 percent of every tax dollar that's…

— Carol Roth

We've got an extraordinarily complex tax system that's full of loopholes that are exploited by special interests. I'd like to see those…

— Barack Obama

Congress has changed the Social Security system over time, and over 20 times in the past Congress has raised taxes on Social…

— Chris Chocola

Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be…

— Arthur Frederick Saunders

Government jobs are not an addition to the country's payroll; they are an increase in the nation's payload.

— Ilana Mercer

The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family…

— Dee Dee Myers

We can't just cut our way to prosperity. Even as we look for ways to reduce deficits over the long term, we…

— Jennifer Palmieri

You'll note that politicians no longer spend money, they invest it. Don't worry about paying more to the [IRS]. You aren't being…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The more government takes in taxes, the less incentive people have to work. What coal miner or assembly-line worker jumps at the…

— Ronald Reagan

The law, right now, permits companies that close down American factories and offices and move those jobs overseas to take a tax…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

I think the Republican tax law is so bad that it almost guarantees a Republican victory, precisely because it's so bad. The…

— Michael Hudson

When government taxes and regulates, what is seen are the visible effects of government contracts, grants, and subsidies. What is not seen…

— John Pugsley

Imposing a $10,000 cap on SALT deductions has nothing to do with thoughtful tax policy. It's simply an attack on New Jersey…

— Mikie Sherrill

Mitt Romney was treated very unfairly. Mitt Romney didn't want to give his tax returns, because people don't understand returns that are…

— Donald Trump

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

— Peter Schiff

Hillary Clinton has made bad judgment not only on taxes. She's made bad judgments on Libya, on Syria, on Iraq. I mean,…

— Donald Trump

Puerto Rico is a government that is spending money that it doesn't have. What's coming in and what's going out don't match.…

— Marco Rubio

First of all, I was there when Ronald Reagan tax breaks, he gave specifics of what he was going to cut, number…

— Joe Biden

Any money the government spends must be taxed, borrowed or conjured out of thin air by the Federal Reserve, and that will…

— John Stossel

“No longer would other nations, other economies, be taking business and jobs away from the U.S. economy by enacting their own valuable…

— Neal Boortz

We've got people in the Republican Party that just believe that if you just cut taxes for corporations, and that you have…

— Jeff Sessions

There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.

— Cullen Hightower

We have seven months before the election. Our top priority as fiscal conservatives is to make sure President Obama retires.

— Ron Johnson

Even with multiple instruction books, maneuvering the maze of the tax code is costly and time-consuming.

— Mike Crapo

My friend Paul Ryan talks about fiscal responsibility, but voted to put two wars on a credit card.

— Steny Hoyer

We ought to pay down the national debt, ... The American people are tired of people who make promises about cutting taxes…

— John McCain

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of…

— William Hague

It always depends on who you work with. It is not about the budget, not about the countries but about people.

— Ana de Armas

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

— Will Rogers

One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.

— Hillary Clinton

We think we can't survive without deficit spending - but we soon won't be able to survive with deficit spending, either.

— Tony Blankley

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American?

— Cullen Hightower

I'm conscious of competitive issues, but at the same time the recommendation they make is that we protect citizens by not adding…

— Christy Clark

“Every culture has some ritual for joining two people together and making them stay that way, and ours is giving tax breaks.”

— Bauvard

Under Obama, our federal tax dollars can now be used to fund abortion all over the world. With the stroke of a…

— Rick Perry

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.

— Christina Romer