Quotes About Taxes

It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.

I believe we now have a glorious opportunity: we can pass our laws and set our taxes entirely according to the needs of the U.K. economy.

France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden... something of which I am not proud.

If there are healthy - and growing - numbers of people working and paying taxes, we are better able to pay the costs of people living longer.

As far as I'm concerned, the people who aren't paying taxes don't get to run around claiming that they built everything, that the built the roads and that they built the bridges and so forth.

There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains) and Bush the Elder.

Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.

I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.

I made a promise to you and the people of our state when I was running for governor: I promised I would cut taxes by 10% for middle-class families.

After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.

We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.

We owe the government taxes. We owe our creditors interest. What do these powers owe us?

We have proven that conservative principles work: less taxes, less government, and more freedom.

You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.

We're looking to make sure things are fair, and we're always looking at ways to lower taxes for the middle class and raise them on the wealthiest one per cent.

I don't mind paying the taxes I pay, which is pretty considerable.

Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.

While American taxes pay for much of the research and development that goes into creating the new, life-saving drugs, American consumers continue to subsidize the cost of the drugs for consumers across the world.

People listen to me, and they hear about a government they want, a government... that will cut spending, cut taxes, that will focus on private-sector job creation.

In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards, if we have benefits in taxes, royalties, jobs, we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources.

Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.

My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes.

Nothing could be more regressive than carbon taxes.

I hate talking to media. I hate it, man. You have to. But it's crazy. I thought there were only two things in this world that you had to do, and that was die and pay taxes. Now I know that you've got to talk to media. And I hate it.