Quotes About Taxes

G.E. doesn't pay any taxes, and we are asking college kids to take on even more debt to get an education and asking seniors to get by on less. These aren't just economic questions. These are moral questions.

Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.

There is an old adage that the quickest way to drop your tax take is to increase taxes. If capital gains tax is going to be 50 percent, my contingent capital gains tax is going to be 250 million pounds.

I love talking about taxes.

Our families are overburdened with taxes.

Government needs to get out of the way, focus more on affordability, manage taxes properly so we get the services we expect.

It's exciting to sing in the place where you pay your taxes.

Jesus said that we should render to the state what properly belongs to the state, and though he had taxes in mind, we might reasonably infer that giving the state the job of punishing wrongdoers is one way of giving the state its due.

I just simply can't support having my constituents pay more taxes and not receive more benefits for their tax payments.

I'm a Conservative. I don't believe there should be too many rules. There should be lower taxes.

Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since our annual deficit now exceeds all discretionary spending combined.

It's time to acknowledge that more government and higher taxes is not the answer to our problem.

I pay my taxes when I was with ABS-CBN as an actress; when I was with Binibini, so I'll continue on doing that as long as I'm earning money here, like everybody else.

There are always ways to make government better, always ways to make sure that the taxes of people are better spent.

Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology.

President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.

One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.

We have to have an adequate number of taxes and an adequate amount of taxes.

The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.

I want paying taxes to feel like the accomplishment of a civic duty.

People ask how I can be a conservative and still want higher taxes. It makes my head spin, and I guess it shows how old I am. But I thought that conservatives were supposed to like balanced budgets. I thought it was the conservative position to not leave heavy indebtedness to our grandchildren.

Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words 'abortion' or 'tax hikes' pass their lips.

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?

Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.