Quotes About Taxes

A budget matters to Americans who can't afford to see their taxes go up or lose the jobs that would be destroyed in the process.

I recognize that Republicans see a moral difference between a dollar taken away from a millionaire in government benefits and a dollar taken away from a millionaire in taxes.

Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own.

Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship.

The model of Coca-Cola is local, whether it's investing, partnering, sourcing, producing, or selling. We market and distribute locally; we pay taxes locally. And it works.

Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem.

People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes.

I think the rich should pay more in taxes - I agree with that 100 percent - but everybody should feel the pain a little bit.

I currently live independently without any funded support. I'm educated, and I'm employed. I enjoy paying my taxes and contributing to the economic life of Australia.

It is logical for a U.S. person to give their money away while they are alive, as the government will take it from you when you die in taxes.

An independent Scotland could afford pensions full stop - after all, it is our taxes and national insurance contributions that fund them now.

Our economy grew at double the rate of the nation. We created 1.3 million jobs. We led the nation seven out of those eight years. We were only one of two states that went to AAA bond rating. I cut taxes, $19 billion. If you do that and apply conservative principles the right way, you create an environment where everybody rises up.

Most of us have not heard about Master Limited Partnerships. These special financing arrangements allow oil and gas investors to avoid paying certain corporate income taxes, but are not available to clean energy businesses.

The centerpiece of Obamanomics - raising taxes on high earners and investors and lowering them on the middle class - is attacked by free-marketers for penalizing economic success and possibly further stalling economic growth.

What I want to do is make certain that no one's taxes go up. Let's look at cleaning up the tax code.

We had 90 percent taxes before in America. All right? Didn't work.

You've seen my statements; I do very well. I don't mind paying some taxes. The middle class is getting clobbered in this country. You know the middle class built this country, not the hedge fund guys, but I know people in hedge funds that pay almost nothing, and it's ridiculous, OK?

People making $1 million a year are not going to do anything different if they pay more taxes.

I don't know whether other people should or shouldn't pay taxes. I know I can, and I am willing, to pay more taxes. I know I should not get Social Security. I don't need it.

When the period arrives - come when it may - that this government will be compelled to resort to internal taxes for its support in time of peace, it will mark one of the most difficult and dangerous stages through which it is destined to pass.

The benefits cap is right in principle because people don't pay their taxes so that families who could work don't work. People pay their taxes so we support people who really need to be supported.

Fortunately, good policy, true principles, and effective leadership work whenever they are tried. When we reduce government, balance budgets, and keep taxes as low as possible, states respond in a positive way.

Most Americans want their government to be smaller, not larger; they want their taxes to be lower, not higher.

I do believe that we need to lower taxes on our hard working Iowans immediately.