Taxes Quotes · Page 34

Tax returns give you nothing. Tax returns give you no information.

— Donald Trump

The purpose for a tax system is to collect needed revenue at the least cost to the people.

— Edward C. Prescott

The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

— Mark Twain

The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruin

— Herbert Hoover

Privatization is a bitter pill but it is a pill that will cure.

— Anonymous

There are only two honest ways to reduce our debt: cut spending or raise revenues.

— Dick Durbin

There are real impacts from lowering tax rates, encouraging savings.

— Kevin Brady

If you raise taxes during a recession, you head to depression.

— George W. Bush

Any politician promising not to raise your taxes is like a vampire promising to become a vegetarian.

— Pierre Poilievre

I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.

— Lucy Stone

A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries…

— Nick Clooney

The whole tax code should be looked at, all the way from farm subsidies to carried interest to - to corporate loopholes,…

— Stephen Pagliuca

Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't…

— Gore Vidal

“For Madison, on the other hand, “a Public Debt is a Public curse,” and “in a Representative Government greater than in any…

— Joseph J. Ellis

My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of…

— Chuck Grassley

Americans of all ages are earning less than they did two decades ago when adjusted for inflation. Yet they’re paying more in…

— Simon Black

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates…

— Bono

Death can only be profitable: there's no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a…

— Anton Chekhov

The stage I chose--a subject fair and free-- 'Tis yours--'tis mine--'tis public property. All common exhibitions open lie, For praise or censure,…

— Charles Churchill

Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live…

— Cecily McMillan

From New Hampshire forward, for reasons that absolutely mystified me, the press thought the most important issue in the race was the…

— William J. Clinton

Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people…

— Adam Smith

Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should…

— Carter Glass

It's why we oppose Citizens United from that right-wing Supreme Court. In 2012, I also said the Tea Party "acted like terrorists"…

— Joe Biden

... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt…

— Thomas Jefferson

America should really wonder about a President Trump, who had a campaign manager with ties to Putin, pro-putin elements in the Ukraine…

— Tim Kaine

Every year I write a tax advice column and I used to always make fun of that. One year, one of my…

— Dave Barry

Recently the country has seen too much of our legislators, seeing them as a gaggle of check-kiting, judge-smearing deadbeats who don't pay…

— George Will

I've said repeatedly publicly, and other members have, that until you adjust the eligibility for entitlements, do things like raising the age…

— Mitch McConnell

Liberals cling to the idea that critics of welfare are motivated by greed or callous disregard for the less fortunate. In fact,…

— Mona Charen

I had nothing to do with death panels. I thought it was a horrible phrase about end of life. I didn't think…

— Frank Luntz

As for loving woman, I have never understood why some people had a fit. I still don't. It seems fine to me.…

— Rita Mae Brown

We can't continue to kick the can when it comes to the fiscal state of this country.

— Kelly Ayotte

Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Inflation is a form of tax, a tax that we all collectively must pay.

— Henry Hazlitt

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

— Campbell Newman

Not raising the debt ceiling is a dangerous game of Russian roulette with our economy.

— Jonathan Capehart

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.

— Grover Norquist

May the IRS find that you deduct your pet sheep as an entertainment expense.

— Christopher Moore

“Lower taxes didn’t mean people paid less; it meant taxes weren’t raised.”

— Chris Dietzel