Quotes About Taxes

Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement'. Not so. No one was fooled

The IRS takes your money. Congress uses our money to arm our enemies. The IRS takes more of your money. Congress uses that money to fight the enemies Congress just armed.

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.

Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people. Sometimes people forget that that's really what occurs.

It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there.

If someone from the government tries to put his hands on your money... run away as fast as you can and tell the nearest conservative.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.

We need to make sure that people can save all the money they spend on medical care by getting it back from their taxes, by reducing their tax burden.

Federal government shutdowns are unsettling, because you realize how little you depend on it compared to the money you give in taxes.

Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting side.

Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you.

George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

I think that my foundation uses the money better than the government does. In any event, I do pay taxes.

I'm getting a little tired of politicians trying to prove how 'moderate' and 'centrist' they are by taking more of my money and freedom. Where's this center - somewhere between Lenin and Stalin?

If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist.

I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?

I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it.

There's nothing good, there's nothing moral about taking money from people who earn it.

The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such.