Taxes Quotes · Page 96

The income tax was devised to give lawyers and certified public accountants business. Few persons can make head, tail, or middle out…

— W. C. Fields

What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit.

— Ed Parker

Republicans are not going to play I-told-you-so, but it is pretty obvious that the tax reductions passed in 2003 helped Americans dig…

— Marsha Blackburn

People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes…

— Carl Paladino

Trump's claims that he's making taxes more democratic for the people, but it actually is a vast sucking of income and wealth…

— Michael Hudson

The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as…

— John Roberts

The government does not add value to the economy. It removes value from the economy by imposing taxes on one citizen and…

— Mark Levin

Not to be blasphemous, but I wonder if even the Holy Trinity understands the American tax code.

— Maurice Carroll

History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged.…

— Jon Meacham

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.…

— Mark Skousen

On the IRS website, they claim to be one of the world's most efficient tax administrators. The IRS officials might know how…

— Mercedes Schlapp

The income tax has spawned an intrusive bureaucracy, creating so much complexity and red tape that millions of ordinary citizens have to…

— Thomas Sowell

Wrestling is a lot like any other workplace. You don't really talk religion or politics. But we are all independent contractors, so…

— Kane

Taxes aren't the way to go. They'd strangle the economy; you wouldn't create the wealth. And nothing squanders money as well as…

— John Caudwell

The only way to reduce our national debt is to grow the economy and cut spending. We have no idea how our…

— Carly Fiorina

When I'm writing in long hand, it just goes on and on and on. When I was in the saloon business, I…

— Malachy McCourt

When people pay taxes, they are buying a service and benefit for their community. Colorado Tax Tracks shows taxpayers what they pay…

— Cary Kennedy

When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who…

— Robert Kiyosaki

I won't raise taxes, because I do not want to punish the people for the politicians' mistakes.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Well, you know, we've got a lot of stimulus in the economy already from the tax cut, from the lowered interest rates,…

— Franklin Raines

You can grow marijuana, so the government can't tax you and they don't like that, that's why they prohibit it.

— Jesse Ventura

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

— Mark Twain

The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to…

— James Wolcott

After military service, the most patriotic thing you can do as a wealthy person is pay your taxes.

— Mark Cuban

Mark Kirk: Lied about going to war. Opposed middle class tax cuts. And said unemployment's not that big an issue.

— Alexi Giannoulias

Going from income support to one of the higher tax tiers overnight... you'd think there'd be a 12-step programme.

— James Bowen

“The debt ceiling is not what causes our problems, it's the only thing that might help solve our problems.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth.

— George W. Bush

This idea of holding the Defense Department hostage to the tax debate makes me sick to my stomach. Knock it off.

— Lindsey Graham

I will absolutely give my [tax] return, but I'm being audited now for two or three years, so I can't do it…

— Donald Trump

You raise taxes during an economic crisis time, as we did in - back in the time of Herbert Hoover, you send…

— John McCain

The 1986 tax act is sort of the unsung hero of the very good economic times we had for a long time.…

— George P. Shultz

I'm going to cut taxes big league, and you're going to raise taxes big league, end of story.

— Donald Trump

The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from…

— Chris Alexander

And, frankly, what happens out of Washington is, it creates a wind in my face, uncertainty over Obamacare, uncertainty over their tax…

— John Kasich

The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at…

— Richard Neal

Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3…

— Christina Romer

Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?

— Nigel Farage

Government needs to get out of the way, focus more on affordability, manage taxes properly so we get the services we expect.

— Caroline Mulroney

In Europe, it's common to hear about young professionals living with their parents. With the continent's high rents and taxes and its…

— Rosecrans Baldwin