Taxes Quotes · Page 79

Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.

— Bill Delahunt

A fairer system bases itself on actual outcomes - if you earn more you pay more, through progressive income tax.

— John McDonnell

The better an entrepreneur succeeds, the more is he vilified and themore is he soaked by taxation.

— Ludwig von Mises

I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

— Michele Bachmann

Arnold Schwarzenegger made his tax returns public, [and] now there's a problem about him stretching the truth. Apparently under occupation he put…

— Jay Leno

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

— Ronald Reagan

Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the…

— Karl Marx

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

— Peg Bracken

If you are extremely well known and have a very desirable product, then yes, you probably do suffer a bit from piracy,…

— Tim O'Reilly

The biggest roadblock to middle-class economic advancement is that governments confiscate more than a third of all family income. Each year the…

— Thomas DiLorenzo

Unlike most government programs, Social Security and, in part, Medicare are funded by payroll taxes dedicated specifically to them. Some of the…

— James Surowiecki

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our…

— George Papandreou

Budget cuts if you're not rich, tax cuts if you are. Less money for those who don't have any and more to…

— Will Durst

We may be assured by past experience, that such a practice [as some states charging high taxes on goods from other states]…

— James Madison

Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program,…

— Bennie Thompson

My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with…

— Bill Gates

“The FairTax takes current individual taxpayers out of the tax collection and payment business altogether. Just how many people would that be?…

— Neal Boortz

Until we fully understand what turned two brothers who allegedly perpetrated the Boston Marathon bombings into murderers, it is hard to make…

— Thomas Friedman

Trickle-down economics - it didn't work. The whole idea was supply-side economics: give rich people a lot of money; they'll spend it,…

— Greg Fitzsimmons

If Congress were to pass a 'flat' tax, you'd simply pay a fixed percentage of your income, and you wouldn't have to…

— Dave Barry

I... [proposed] three distinct grades of education, reaching all classes. 1. Elementary schools for all children generally, rich and poor. 2. Colleges…

— Thomas Jefferson

The left does understand how raising taxes reduces economic activity. How about their desire for increasing cigarette taxes, soda taxes? What are…

— Rush Limbaugh

The greatest threat facing America today is the disastrous fiscal policies of our own government, marked by shameless deficit spending and Federal…

— Ron Paul

It is my view that what is important is cutting government spending, however spending is financed. A so-called deficit is a disguised…

— Milton Friedman

People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share…

— Will Rogers

Growth means creating the right conditions for the private sector - farmers and firms - to invest and do business.

— Hilary Benn

I think the rich should pay more in taxes - I agree with that 100 percent - but everybody should feel the…

— John Catsimatidis

Raising taxes is not our objective. It's bolstering and maintaining the country's defense capabilities.

— Fumio Kishida

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Mike Crapo

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

— Ron Johnson

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