Quotes About Taxes

Ukip has policies including cutting taxes for the wealthy and putting them up for everyone else, charging people to see their GP, or taking away maternity rights.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Acts slashes taxes on the very wealthy and kills regulations with the idea that rich businessmen will invest their money into the economy to support workers - the same idea that Republicans embraced in the 1920s.

If ever there were a case for raising taxes on the wealthy, it's Andrew Bynum.

I think Americans raise eyebrows when you tell them that IRS agents are training with a type of weapon that has stand-off capability. It's not like they're carrying a sidearm, and they knock on someone's door and say, 'You're evading your taxes.'

On the IRS website, they claim to be one of the world's most efficient tax administrators. The IRS officials might know how to collect taxes, but surely know how to misspend the funds.

Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

To think that we have to depend on some of the most dependent people in our population to fund our government when corporations won't even pay their fair share.

I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.

I think corporations should be asked to pay a greater share into the success of this country.

It doesn't cost money to let people keep more of their own money. It costs money to spend money you don't have, but that's another issue.

Extra homes require additional services and councils have to pick up the tab.

They say, "How are you feeling?" "Like I got gored by a water buffalo shot out of one of those circus cannons they use for clowns. You know the ones?" They smile. "Yeah. I've seen them." "How is that even a job? What do you put on your taxes? 'Clown gunner'?" Janet laughs a little. "It's good to see you your own ridiculous self again.

The Reeve collects the rents and taxes which those who dwell on the manor must pay to my uncle regularly for their housing and farms — and for other privileges such as the right to collect firewood in the forest.

You can steal in this country, you can rape and murder, you can bribe public officials, you can pollute the morals of the young, you can burn your place of business down for the insurance money, you can do almost anything you want, and if you act with just a little caution and common sense you'll never even be indicted. But if you don't pay your income tax, Grofield, you will go to jail.

The tax code will never be simplified in our lifetime because it's not about taxes; it's about congressmen distributing the pork.

Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.

Is this Paradise?' 'I can guarantee you that it isn't,' Jubal assured him. 'My taxes are due this week.

Seems a funny way to run things. But of course I've never paid taxes." "You just think you haven't. You started the day you were born. We may eliminate death someday but I doubt if we'll ever eliminate taxes.

While death isn't a sure thing anymore, taxes still are.

So if you combined this thing with carbon taxes, you would get taxed if you burn carbon, but paid if you sequester carbon.

Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.

Qué lástima!, los primeros textos de la historia no contienen ideas filosóficas, ni poesía, leyendas, leyes, ni siquiera triunfos reales. Son documentos económicos aburridos que registran el pago de impuestos, la acumulación de deudas y la posesión de propiedades

Writing and money made it possible to start collecting taxes from hundreds of thousands of people, to organise complex bureaucracies and to establish vast kingdoms.