Taxes Quotes · Page 85

Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors…

— Charles Krauthammer

I think that Governor Romney operates on the capital gains tax, his investments, what he lives off of instead of doing it…

— Allen West

65% of people say that cheating on your income tax is worse than cheating on your spouse. The other 35% were women.

— Jay Leno

Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.

— Alan Greenspan

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of…

— Calvin Coolidge

Obama called on Americans to have more grandchildren. Probably so there's more of them to pay off our debt.

— Jay Leno

In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the…

— Eric Cantor

I think we have to be very sensitive to our need to compete, moving forward, and a lot of that is tied…

— Jon Huntsman, Jr

I think if you have mandatory carbon caps combined with a trading system, much like we did with sulfur, and if you…

— Newt Gingrich

I'm disappointed in Burger King's decision to renounce their American citizenship. I call on companies currently mulling this tax dodge to reconsider…

— Dick Durbin

What Governor Romney is proposing is an across-the-board cut in marginal tax rates for households, every household in America by 20 percent.…

— Glenn Hubbard

I can't see the Democrats working with Donald Trump on tax reform unless the rich get soaked. The thing about this that…

— Rush Limbaugh

[T]ax cuts are not just something that all taxpayers deserve, but also the best way to curb government spending. It is the…

— Zell Miller

Whenever you try to do good with someone else's money, you are committed to using force. How can you do good with…

— Milton Friedman

I look forward to working with our leadership team to advance the causes of smaller government, lower taxes, eliminating terrorism, and providing…

— Howard Coble

Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time…

— John Maynard Keynes

“The only beneficiaries of income taxation are the politicians, for it not only gives them the means by which they can increase…

— Frank Chodorov

Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath…

— Benjamin Franklin

The Tax Court is independent, and its neutrality is not clouded by prosecuting duties. Its procedures assure fair hearings. Its deliberations are…

— Robert H. Jackson

Regarding the Economy & Taxation: America's most successful achievers do pay a higher share of the total tax burden. The top one…

— Rush Limbaugh

The only way Congress can get one dollar to spend is to take that one dollar from Americans, borrow that one dollar…

— Walter E. Williams

I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend if the air is too…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“And then, when it was pointed out that the only way to pay for the idea would be for the government to…

— Dani Kollin

I'm pleased that I've balanced budgets. I was on the world of business for 25 years. If you didn't balance your budget,…

— Mitt Romney

“nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves…

— Henry Fielding

I pay tax, and I pay federal tax, too. But I have a write-off, a lot of it's depreciation, which is a…

— Donald Trump

If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.

— J. Paul Getty

The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.

— Michael Parenti

People's taxes spent on servicing our national debt, instead of funding public services. This isn't just a waste - it's also a…

— Liz Kendall

We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.

— Adam Davidson

The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest.

— Jean-Baptiste Say

Almost everyone agrees that corporate tax rates need to be cut because of global competition. Companies should not be able to stash…

— James B. Stewart

Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe…

— Thomas Woods

The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs: in the hands of the working men and…

— Bob Dole

Reckless spending created Pres. Biden's inflation bonfire, and the mounting debt is putting everyone's future at risk.

— Jon Husted

Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.

— Andrew Mellon

I have always maintained that if a program is to be successful, it must... be voluntary... based on need and must not…

— Thruston Ballard Morton

Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.

— Walter F. Mondale

The same government that requires a taxpaying citizen to document every statement on his tax return decrees that questioning a welfare applicant…

— Ronald Reagan

I'm paying more taxes inside my company and personally than I'll ever receive from Congress.

— Markwayne Mullin