Taxes Quotes · Page 57

We have to reduce the tax burden, whether it's income tax for corporations or private individuals, and we should put a freeze…

— Bruce Rauner

Finance ministers must realize that the health budget can save them money if it's applied well.

— Mary Robinson

The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.

— Bob Beauprez

The deficit crisis is real and must be addressed. But it cannot be solved on the backs of the weak and vulnerable.

— Bernie Sanders

Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to…

— Jack Gould

Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike.

— Jean-Baptiste Say

[Hillary] Clinton wants to raise taxes, raise wages and she wants to do things like put caps on drug prices.

— Maria Bartiromo

There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.

— Calvin Coolidge

The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell…

— J. D. Hayworth

I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the…

— Alan Greenspan

Stoners just got a powerful new ally in the fight to legalize marijuana - conservative broadcaster Pat Robertson. He said it's time…

— Craig Ferguson

There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair…

— Murray Rothbard

I've done my time in being broke in Indonesia. Eating Goat soup. Australia's a developed country, you've got a lot of taxes,…

— Andrew Jack

I'm an American citizen. I pay my taxes. I want my equal rights. But this is my country, and consequently, I don't…

— Jim Brown

The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City -…

— Francois Hollande

I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue…

— Tom Allen

Government, not the oil industry, is the biggest 'profiteer' from oil. And it uses the tax revenue to expand its own authority…

— Mark Levin

The federal government, state governments will not do without that tax revenue from tobacco no matter what. I've always thought it was…

— Rush Limbaugh

Now that the most interesting matter of identity is not what place someone was born in, but what point in time they…

— Nick Laird

There are times when I wouldn't rule violence out. I personally don't like violence at all. But it wasn't until we had…

— Alice Nutter

We inherited a national debt that has doubled in eight years. Think of it - $20 trillion. It's doubled. And we inherited…

— Donald Trump

Business corporations in general are not defenders of free enterprise. On the contrary, they are one of the chief sources of danger…Every…

— Milton Friedman

To get started, track your expenses for a couple of months. Then you should be able to start filling in your estimated…

— Michelle Singletary

It started with Ronald Reagan, when he took away the financing to the California universities. It used to be cheap to send…

— Tim Matheson

Huguette Clark has had her own tax liens - four times, the IRS has filed to collect taxes from her.

— Bill Dedman

I support tax revenue increases, including the top 2 percent, but only if accompanied by responsible spending limits. The key is balance.

— Kenneth Frazier

“The sense that just about anything goes with the collection of public revenues and the making of public expenditure has contributed mightily…

— Richard Epstein

I love seeing teens post things about the election like they know it all. Yes please elaborate on your infinite knowledge of…

— Anonymous

I keep telling them, if they added a 2% stupidity tax, the national debt wud be paid off in a matter of weeks :)

— Don Raj

A survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes. So that's why we…

— Jay Leno

I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off…

— Rowan Atkinson

Change in fashion is the tax which the industry of the poor levies on the vanity of the rich

— Chamfort

I will strive to make this not the highest-spending country in the world, but instead the lowest taxing o-ne.

— Stephen Harper

I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. I don't think the evidence supports that.

— Austan Goolsbee

My father was always not concerned about the wealth I have, but every year he would ask me, how much have you…

— Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

Nobody wants the United States to default on its debt. Nobody. But, at some point in time, we've got to address the…

— Chuck Fleischmann

Challenges that tax our faith are usually opportunities to stretch and strengthen our faith by finding out if we really believe the…

— Sheri L. Dew

Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement'. Not so. No one was fooled

— Dan Quayle

Prior to the 16th Amendment, which authorized the individual income tax, tariffs had been one of the federal government's chief sources of…

— Scott Bessent

If I make a dollar and out of every dollar I'm taxed at 50, half, at 50 cents, I have to give,…

— Jon Lovitz