Taxes Quote by Taylor Larimore

The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.

— Richard Neal

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

— Jean-Baptiste Say

To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a…

— John Stuart Mill

The purpose for a tax system is to collect needed revenue at the least cost to the people.

— Edward C. Prescott

If there is one thing that most economists agree about in the realm of tax policy, it is that it's best to broaden the…

— Richard Thaler

Ultimately, the reason I want to increase these taxes on the top 1%, the most profitable corporations, is to increase quality of life for…

— Zohran Mamdani

If you want less of something, tax it. If you want more of something, don't tax it or reduce the tax burden.

— Ted Nugent

“A capital tax is the most appropriate response to the inequality r > g as well as to the inequality of returns to capital…

— Thomas Piketty

I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.

— Calvin Coolidge

“Just what do we tax under our current system? Work, that’s what. Hard work and productivity. The harder you work, the more you achieve.…

— Neal Boortz

Fairness dictates that the highest income people should pay the greatest share of taxes, and they do.

— Mitt Romney

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson