Taxes Quotes · Page 20

Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.

— George Osborne

The problem is that taxes aren’t used efficiently.

— Mian Muhammad Mansha

I will not raise taxes on anyone making $250,000 or less.

— Hillary Clinton

Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

— Eileen Wilks

But Tolkien doesn't ask the question: What was Aragorn's tax policy?

— George R. R. Martin

I've never seen class warfare as nasty as it is today, as a result of tax debate.

— Bernard Goldberg

It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

— Benjamin Franklin

There's three things in life that's certain: Death, taxes, and 85 will always be open.

— Chad Ochocinco

Curious if you know of any tax breaks for people who didn't commit a heinous financial crime this year.

— Anonymous

What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that higher taxes mean fewer American jobs and less American production.

— Lynn Westmoreland

To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty.

— Adam Smith

If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's…

— Ellen Tauscher

“I am convinced that if most members of Congress did their own taxes, we would have had tax reform long ago.”

— Bill Archer

I would use the debt limit. I don't want to say - I want to be unpredictable, because, you know, we need…

— Donald Trump

If you are doing well, your business will pay more in tax; if you're not doing well, you pay less.

— Matt Gonzalez

Ukip has policies including cutting taxes for the wealthy and putting them up for everyone else, charging people to see their GP,…

— Chuka Umunna

So all of this is possible. Now, in order for us to do it, we do have to close our deficit, and…

— Barack Obama

The place where you got to get revenues has to come from the middle class. That's where the huge number of people…

— Orrin Hatch

As the Chairwoman of the Orange County Board of Supervisors, I was committed to supporting business owners and workers, fighting against high…

— Michelle Steel

In the past we entrusted money to the government sector and the government sector simply did not spend the money wisely. And…

— George W. Bush

Look around. Oil companies guzzle down the billions in profits. Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street…

— Elizabeth Warren

By contrast, poll taxes were very effective in excluding blacks, as well as impacting many poor whites; in legal parlance, they were…

— David B. Rivkin

I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they've paid taxes, they've been here a…

— Zoe Lofgren

Gun owners would have to be evaluated by how they scored on written and firing tests, and have to pass the tests…

— Joycelyn Elders

I think it's time we had a President who will provide the only real economic security: good jobs. A President who will…

— John F. Kerry

As it is the nature of a kite to devour little birds, so it is the nature of some minds to insult…

— Henry Fielding

You, as a wage earner have to pay your taxes every year on your income for that year. So if you have…

— David Cay Johnston

On issue after issue, the polls - and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time…

— Katrina vanden Heuvel

All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you…

— Dave Barry

Barack Obama is talking about cutting taxes. On net, he is a tax cutter. But the difference between Obama and John McCain…

— Jared Bernstein

I think that they hoped the private sector would come in. And the private sector tried to come in until they saw…

— Warren Buffett

So the Bush-Obama administration has taken a fiscal stance diametrically opposed to that of the patron saint of free enterprise. While escalating…

— Michael Hudson

Who's on the case when it comes to the flat tax?

— Joshua Micah Marshall

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy.

— Grover Norquist

By the way, my tax cut is the biggest since Ronald Reagan. I'm very proud of it.

— Donald Trump

Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?

— Padgett Powell

[T]he burden of government is not measured by how much it taxes, but by how much it spends.

— Milton Friedman

I don't blame anybody for using the tax code to their advantage.

— Lindsey Graham

Simplicity just isn't a word synonymous with taxes.

— Mike Crapo

If the government could tax broken hearts, there would be no deficit.

— Anonymous