Taxes Quotes · Page 98

Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to…

— Benjamin Franklin

All it takes is Harry Reid saying a friend told him [Mitt] Romney hadn't paid his taxes in ten years and it's…

— Rush Limbaugh

An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance our budget, just as it will never produce…

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

What I do believe absolutely is that in the middle of a recession, the American middle class and working class needs a…

— Bernie Sanders

If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources.

— Grover Norquist

A certain amount of taxes is of course indispensable to carry on essential government functions. Reasonable taxes for this purpose need not…

— Henry Hazlitt

Cutting taxes even more on the wealthy and corporations, that's not going to help anybody except the wealthy and corporations.

— Hillary Clinton

To try and nick a few quid off the income tax... Why? I am not into that. I don't need that.

— Harry Redknapp

It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to…

— John F. Kennedy

I could never allow [tax] cuts that devastate education for our children, that pollute our environment, that end the guarantee of health…

— William J. Clinton

What we have in the Bush team is a faith-based administration. It launched a faith-based war in Iraq, on the basis of…

— Thomas Friedman

By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words,…

— Ilana Mercer

I think most people believe success in government is how many fewer people are in government, not because you kick them off…

— Scott Walker

At times of recession, running a budget deficit is highly desirable. Once the economy begins to recover, you have to balance the…

— George Soros

The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating…

— John Maynard Keynes

Every time we've had a pro-growth fundamental tax reform, be it under President Reagan, President Kennedy - you can even go all…

— Jeb Hensarling

Well, generally, I don't like sin taxes at all, because sin taxes and nanny state politics represent the government making a moral…

— Margaret Hoover

Donald Trump says he'll cut taxes and that will make the more productive members of our society more productive still and that…

— Paul Solman

There is no such thing as a 'free' government benefit. Ask small-business owners who are footing skyrocketing bills for bottomless jobless benefits.

— Michelle Malkin

And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.

— George W. Bush

It's so hard to get our goods into China. And when we do get in they charge us a huge surtax. They…

— Donald Trump

I am not a great fan of the payroll tax holiday because I'm nervous about what it does to the future of…

— Bernie Sanders

For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through…

— Anonymous

People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes. The problem is that taxes aren't used efficiently.

— Mian Muhammad Mansha

As a general rule, governments are wise to avoid taxation that is voluntary, as they need a steady stream of income.

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it's OK to eat the…

— Timothy Noah

There is no golden age of public spending for the working class under any form of Conservative future, only the endless pursuit…

— Dawn Foster

I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man…

— Will Rogers

Carbon tax has the advantage of basically being able to subsidize one set of activities that you want with another set of…

— Stewart Brand

One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.

— Josh Mandel

You see people literally in a different galaxy who are paying extraordinarily low rates of tax.

— Nick Clegg

While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich…

— Warren Buffett

Corporations use all sorts of complex stratagems to move their profits overseas, and thus escape the U.S. income tax.

— T.R. Reid

It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a…

— Ludwig Quidde

I believe that there should be a very much heavier progressive tax on very large incomes, a tax which should increase in…

— Theodore Roosevelt

[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.

— George Will

Irony is higher taxes for celibatarian's, and lower taxes for the child bearing couples who are placing a greater demand on public…

— Grass Hopper

It's not rocket science. Hong Kong has 95% tax compliance, because it's code is only 4 pages long with a 15% flat tax.

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Before we start making blanket statements about abolishing the IRS, I think it's important to focus on what the tax code for…

— Charles Boustany

“missîm. The term missîm in Hebrew refers to a sort of tax, not of money but of physical labor. Citizens owed a…

— Richard Elliott Friedman