Taxes Quotes · Page 50

Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.

— Barbara Rosenblat

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

— Bobby Scott

Damning taxes is a piece of cake. It's defending them that's hard.

— Jill Lepore

“Some things in life are certain; death, taxes, and that your family will piss you off.”

— Melanie Finn

Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. Guess what? Yes we do.

— Joe Biden

It must be nice to no longer have to check the sad little 'single' box on your tax return.

— Anonymous

Essentially, Robin Hood put a smackdown on the medieval equivalent of the IRS.

— Steven Crowder

Budget consolidation and economic growth are two sides of the same coin.

— Angela Merkel

Examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt.

— Tony Blair

I shall easily show that it is impossible to tax further, ruinous to be always borrowing and not enough to confine ourselves…

— Charles Alexandre de Calonne

I don't get money from the vitamins that I make. My after tax profits go to a foundation that supports integrative medicine.

— Andrew Weil

No one in America fully understands the constantly changing Internal Revenue Code. Agents of the IRS do not, judges do not, congressmen…

— G. Edward Griffin

Two things you need to know about taxes. They've extended the deadline to April 18, and when you write your check, just…

— David Letterman

Obama Supporters Angry Over Tax Increases. I knew it. They were dumb enough to think it would only be the rich.

— Anonymous

We need a tax code that truly helps working Americans trying to get a leg up in the new economy.

— Barack Obama

I will release my tax returns - against my lawyer's wishes - when she releases her 33,000 e-mails that have been deleted.…

— Donald Trump

And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating…

— Arthur Laffer

Reports also suggest that Ernst and Young and other large tax preparation firms are sending tax returns overseas for processing. But the…

— Melissa Bean

Deficits, as I've often said, aren't caused by too little taxing, they're caused by too much spending. Presidents can't appropriate a dollar…

— Ronald Reagan

You'll better understand the evil when top audit firms started selling fraudulent tax shelters when I tell you that one told me…

— Charlie Munger

This is the disease in America. It's not just spending. It's not just taxes. It's not just corruption. It is progressivism. And…

— Glenn Beck

Most of the millions of unauthorized and undocumented immigrants in the United States are essentially permanent residents. They raise families, own homes…

— Jamelle Bouie

Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the [Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans] whose ancestors bought a…

— Bill Gates

Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and…

— L. Neil Smith

What the Trump tax plan is a plan to give tiny little tax cuts to most Americans, raise taxes on perhaps one…

— David Cay Johnston

There are going to be stories of very young kids that were brought to this country at a very young age who…

— Marco Rubio

So I'm not proposing anything radical. I just believe that anybody making over $250,000 a year should go back to the income…

— Barack Obama

Suppose that throughout your childhood you were good with numbers. Other kids used to copy your homework. You figured store discounts faster…

— James Hillman

That kind of approach, I believe, will not grow our economy, because the only way to pay for it without either burdening…

— Barack Obama

It makes no difference to a widow with her savings in a 5 percent passbook account whether she pays 100 percent income…

— 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

If you're a full-time manager of your own property - and full-time, according to Congress, is 15 hours a week - you…

— Hillary Clinton

At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.

— Meredith Whitney

The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.

— Michael Bloomberg

A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness.

— George W. Bush

“A nation with minimum laws will have maximum laughter.”

— Amit Kalantri

[Hillary Clinton] is going to raise taxes $1.3 trillion.

— Donald Trump

Hey, I'm a libertarian. I think out of control spending messes up everything.

— Charles Murray

We shall tax and tax, and spend and spend, and elect and elect.

— Harry Hopkins

My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt.

— George W. Bush