Quotes About Taxes

I haven't met a single person, Republican or Democrat, who thinks it's just fine for members of Congress to sit on the boards of corporations we regulate, or for presidents to hide their tax returns.

Our current tax system is broken.

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Sugary drinks are blamed for increasing the rates of chronic disease and obesity in America. Yet efforts to reduce their consumption through taxes or other measures have gone nowhere. The beverage industry has spent millions defeating them.

We need to stop illegal immigration. We need to put people back to work. We need to cut taxes.

We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.

Between income taxes and employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes, we're being taxed to death.

I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country.

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

It's not Apple's fault that they're seeking to avoid paying taxes. They're not lying, cheating or stealing. They're following the rules that were created by governments. If the government doesn't like the rules, they can change them.

The biggest source of getting the country to a balanced budget is not by raising taxes or by cutting spending. It's by encouraging the growth of the economy.

Labour want to control all parts of the economy and society so that they can pursue the politics of envy. It would leave us all paying higher taxes and the economy in tatters.

Reforming Social Security to make it fully funded and independently held, that's compassionate because it allows people to control their own lives; cutting taxes on families and all Americans to let people have more control over their lives.

That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.

I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.

A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

Argentina shows opportunity for doing good business, taking care of the environment to fight climate change, paying taxes. Argentina will continue to grow.

What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that higher taxes mean fewer American jobs and less American production.

I'll happily pay more taxes if we all have equal human rights.

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.