Taxes Quotes · Page 83

The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution.

— G. Edward Griffin

Isnt it appropriate that the month of the tax begins with April Fools Day and ends with cries of 'May Day!'

— Anonymous

More people working and paying taxes reduces government expenditures and helps us move a little closer to balance.

— Dick Durbin

Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of…

— Garry Kasparov

During his campaign, [Donald] Trump promised the biggest tax cut since Ronald Reagan's conservative revolution in the 1980s.

— Kelly McEvers

When Republicans are down, in disarray, feeling blue, they turn to a tried-and-true elixir, sort of a Doctor Feelgood medicine for them.…

— Paul Gigot

Donald Trump would send us back into recession with his tax plans that benefit the wealthiest of Americans.

— Hillary Clinton

We have proven that conservative principles work: less taxes, less government, and more freedom.

— Carlos Lopez-Cantera

[In Mexico] they have a VAT tax. We're on a different system. When we sell into Mexico, there's a tax. When they…

— Donald Trump

We've been prepared to make the arguments for lowering corporation tax, which is all about encouraging risk takers, encouraging entrepreneurs, and I…

— Liz Truss

You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term…

— Anonymous

Over the longer term, we need to work toward a pro-growth tax code that is fairer and simpler than what we have…

— Joni Ernst

This is again, one of our pieces of our 200-pay plan, part of our very ambitious agenda. We really don't think we…

— Paul Ryan

President Obama has announced a task force to review the tax codes. He's concerned there are too many loopholes and too many…

— Jay Leno

The presidents would...president would prefer raising taxes. I understand. The problem with raising taxes is that it slows down the rate of…

— Mitt Romney

Thomas Piketty assembles the facts to prove a central point about trickle-down economics: Doesn't work. Never did. He has cold, hard data…

— Elizabeth Warren

Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may…

— Simon Schama

Republican leaders have made clear they have no plans to use the power of government to stimulate the economy, invest in job…

— Dennis Kucinich

A tobacco industry has been a fairly linear and predictable industry. You know what's going to happen every year. You know from…

— Andre Calantzopoulos

These are the rules of big business. They have superseded the teachings of our parents and are reducible to a simple maxim:…

— Frederic C. Howe

“Like, suppose Massachusetts were to increase business taxes. Most of the population is in favor of it, but you can predict what…

— Noam Chomsky

The focus, to my mind, is to make sure that Donald Trump does not become president of the United States. I think…

— Bernie Sanders

[The healthcare bill is a] headlong rush into socialism…we will not stand for the Obama-Pelosi-Reid hijacking of our freedom and democracy so…

— Michael Steele

We don't make bicycles anymore. It's all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everyone…

— Anonymous

Why is it that if you take advantage of a corporate tax break you're a smart businessman, but if you take advantage…

— Jon Stewart

Estate taxes make every one of us nervous. If there’s an owner who isn’t, he has his head in the sand.

— Dan Rooney

The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hotlines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea…

— Dave Barry

The emphasis so far on fiscal austerity, while to a degree necessary for the countries facing market funding difficulties, is excessive when…

— Charles Dallara

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

— David Suzuki

There is no - let me repeat - no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been…

— Jonah Goldberg

Good intentions often get muddled with very complex execution. The last time the government tried to make taxes easier, it created a…

— Brad D. Smith

Tax cuts create more jobs and this is something we as Republicans have to do a better job of marketing.

— Pete Sessions

Failure is just a tax on the way to success. It is inevitable but it is not the whole story.

— Michael Hyatt

The Internal Revenue Service is more ruthless than the Gestapo. Abolish the IRS! Stamp out organized crime!

— Evel Knievel

There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money…

— Chaka Fattah

We need to open up private sector markets. We need to empower small business people, working Georgians, and entrepreneurs.

— Brian Kemp

The tax code gives you an enormous advantage if you can find some things you can just sit with.

— Charlie Munger

Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay

— Milton Friedman

Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist…

— J. P. Morgan

The truth is that the United States doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception…

— James Surowiecki