Taxes Quotes · Page 44

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

— Campbell Newman

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

— Kelly Ayotte

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

— Christopher Moore

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

The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind

— John Warren Kindt

I'm a conservative and I believe if you tax something more you get less of it.

— John Barrasso

Another top issue for the upcoming [Donald] Trump administration is tax policy.

— Kelly McEvers

Why, who cries out on pride that can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea…

— William Shakespeare

If they cover my taxes, I'll go anywhere. I'm pretty sure if they really wanted me to fight in Australia, they would've…

— Kevin Holland

When it comes to economics, president-elect [Donald] Trump has promised to revive American manufacturing, get tough on trade with China, cut taxes…

— Judy Woodruff

For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once…

— Anthony Weiner

If we're going to have an unconventional budget, we probably need an unconventional process to get there.

— Anthony Foxx

“The predominant view was that budgets should be balanced and money supplies tightened. This, as we know today, only made matters worse.”

— Timothy Snyder

To alter the money value of commodities, by altering the value of money, and yet to raise the same money amount by…

— David Ricardo

I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in…

— Questlove

As far as I'm concerned, the people who aren't paying taxes don't get to run around claiming that they built everything, that…

— Rush Limbaugh

Governments spend all their time trying to get big companies to relocate their headquarters, and they end up subsidizing the move with…

— Brad Feld

After Independence, there were periods of very high taxation. So you didn't create wealth, how will you distribute it? When was the…

— Shiv Nadar

When I walked into the Oval Office, I had more than a trillion-dollar deficit greeting me. And we know where it came…

— Barack Obama

Whether it's a penalty or a tax, it's all one in the same. It's coming out of somebody's hard-earned money in their…

— Mike Lee

Our government, taxes, and ideas of freedom are already duplicates of the Old World. Our politicians determine how we should live our…

— Harry Browne

I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the…

— Jesse Ventura

I will continue my consistent record of voting for lower taxes, less spending and fewer regulations to make our government more effective…

— Roscoe Bartlett

Jesus refers to the poor over and over again. There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that call upon us to respond to…

— Tony Campolo

The failure of the first Barack Obama administration to really deliver on a new War on Poverty and a new language to…

— Sasha Abramsky

The Assembly passed a budget that makes the right choices for young students across the state by helping schools avoid cutting essential…

— Jose Peralta

We need to put a price on carbon, and that's what cap-and-trade does and that's also what a CO2 tax does. As…

— Al Gore

When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be…

— Thomas Paine

5: Social security will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country! 1944: The G.I.…

— Joseph Conrad

Abracadabra, thus we learn The more you create, the less you earn. The less you earn, the more you're given, The less…

— Ogden Nash

The left's obsession with corporations as a spawn of evil is pathological paranoia. A corporation is just one form of organizing a…

— Mike Rosen

The sales tax is a necessary source of revenue to pay for Japan's social welfare.

— Yoshihide Suga

Having a friend like you could conceivably be some sort of tax deduction.

— Anonymous

“All things built with tax money are beautiful: so we must think or go mad.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

— Jonathan Swift

The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force.

— Mervyn King

The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruin

— Herbert Hoover

The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

— Mark Twain

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

— Edward C. Prescott