Quotes About Taxes

People like Donald Trump, who paid zero in taxes, zero for our vets, zero for our military, zero for health and education, that is wrong.

If [Donald Trump] is paid zero [taxes], that means zero for troops, zero for vets, zero for schools or health.

I look forward to working with our leadership team to advance the causes of smaller government, lower taxes, eliminating terrorism, and providing affordable health care, among other issues.

If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying that you want a country based on Christian values. Because you don't!

The best way to help the poor is to slash taxes and allow savings, investment, and creation of jobs to proceed unhampered.

No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.

First governor in Arkansas history to ever lower taxes.

Historically, the best way to convert liberals is to have them move out of their parents' home, get a job, and start paying taxes.

In my home state of Indiana we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced budgets, low taxes.

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.

The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.

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

I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.

The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

A lot of times in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And the facts are that thousands of small businesses-Hispanically owned or otherwise-pay taxes at the highest marginal rate.

Laura Oliva, A World Apart

Taxes for people with too much damned time on their hands.

I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

As long as they don't harm the environment, pay taxes, and don't do it in my bed, it's none of my business.

To my husband, Harold, I leave the Lower Bayou Motel. You've spent so many nights there with other women that I felt you should call the place home. It's been operating in the red for the last eight years, owes back taxes since 1986, and is covered with deadly asbestos. Nothing but the best for you, dear.

Different groups have different priorities. Because Hispanics tend to have low incomes, they support increases in government services, even at the cost of more taxes for others. Most Hispanics supported all five spending initiatives on the May, 2005 California ballot; most whites opposed all five.

The ideas in each—from profit-sharing with employees to new approaches to job training, from reform of the financial system to promote long-term time horizons on investment to more progressive taxes and large-scale infrastructure investment—would help create a more just economy.