Taxes Quotes · Page 90

Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of…

— Angelina Grimke

Could America exist without an income tax? The idea seems radical, yet in truth America did just fine without a federal income…

— Ron Paul

I've been written off more times than some of the government's tax returns but I just keep plodding along.

— James Haskell

We don't have a tax revenue problem in Washington, we have a spending problem in Washington.

— Paul Ryan

Long before Wesley Snipes decided he didn't need to pay the IRS, Willie Nelson was dodging the tax men.

— Shawn Amos

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't…

— Art Buchwald

The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.

— Ronald Reagan

Hollywood's schizophrenia over guns is matched only by their attitude toward taxes. Ever wonder why they film in Vancouver so often? It…

— Greg Gutfeld

President [Barack] Obama's staking his reelection hopes on rebuilding America's middle class. He wants higher taxes on the wealthy, tougher rules on…

— Chris Matthews

Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it…

— Howard Rheingold

I think when ordinary working people come home, turn on the TV and see a gala of a bunch of people at,…

— Stephen Harper

There are several reasons to oppose tax increases. First, every dollar of tax increase is a dollar you didn't get in spending…

— Grover Norquist

I think we should, as the public sector or politicians, stop creating an illusion that it is the public sector that drives…

— Alexander Stubb

What we also have to recognize is that the deficit levels that I'm inheriting, over a trillion dollars, coming out of last…

— Barack Obama

One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred by high…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much…

— Mitch Daniels

My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations in dollars because…

— Gavin Andresen

Inflation is just another tax on every American, and in California we already pay some of the highest taxes in the entire…

— Michelle Steel

Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this…

— Jack Kemp

Currently, not only are Americans taxed on what they earn, but those assets are taxed again when they are passed on to…

— Mary Bono

Allowing the private sector rather than the government to allocate capital is crucial to growth.

— Scott Bessent

Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question.…

— E. Haldeman-Julius

Private industry's job is to make money. Private industry's job is to create a huge economic engine.

— Peter Diamandis

Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am…

— Christopher Dodd

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to…

— Barry Goldwater

The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime.

— James Bovard

We're working with the administration on working on tax reform. You can go to better.gop and see our blueprint, that's what we're…

— Paul Ryan

Tax Day is often a source of frustration for taxpayers, so anything that can make the process less painful is appreciated.

— Kevin Brady

To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task.

— Chuck Schumer

I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary,…

— Thomas Jefferson

The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible…

— Leonard Lance

Addressing budget issues is usually a balancing act in which cuts are weighed against revenue increases to find the best solution for…

— Kevin de Leon

He [Mitt Romney] didn't pay taxes for 10 years! Now, do I know that that's true? Well, I'm not certain, but obviously…

— Harry Reid

The woman that comes in, takes the wastebasket away, she's paying 15.3 or whatever it is on payroll tax alone. I mean…

— Warren Buffett

While the cost-of-living continues to plague New Yorkers, raising the cap on SALT will provide real tax relief not just to New…

— George Santos

If the economy grows enough, fast enough, the tech system should be modernized so that the tax revenues rise fast enough also,…

— Manmohan Singh

I don't hear anything from Trump about tax increases. I hear tax cuts from him. I hear tax reform from him.

— Rush Limbaugh

The problem for new businesses isn't corporate taxes. Anyone who has actually started a new business knows you don't make enough money…

— Glenn Kelman

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