Quotes About Taxes

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.

Or, to reassure the bond market, does it cut expenditures in some other area, upsetting voters or vested interests? Or does it try to reduce the deficit by raising taxes?

one should not be deterred from improving his possessions for fear lest they be taken away from him or another from opening up trade for fear of taxes;

Only 8 percent of large businesses paid taxes in cash, while the rest paid in kind or not at all.

Yet, although many priests were extremely poor, the Church as an institution was not only very rich but also powerful. It paid no taxes, voluntarily contributing instead a grant to the state every five years, and, as the amount of this grant was decided in the quinquennial Church Assemblies, the clergy were able to exercise a considerable influence over the policies of the Government.

The deficit, then, is not the difference between what America spends and what America earns; it is, to a striking extent, the difference between what the rich owe and what the rich pay.

May the IRS find that you deduct your pet sheep as an entertainment expense.

British capitalists don't want a Left government in Spain; they'd be afraid of severance taxes. They want what they call a strong government, one that holds labor down and puts the taxes on the consumer.

age twenty-nine the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, which in 1986 made the Republicans' antitax fixation official.

Norquist is known for his jokey line about his wish to make the federal government smaller—"to shrink it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

A govt share of Rs.200 increases by 50 paise only often whereas decreases by Rs.3 to 5 so if a trader buys and sells it for intraday will eventually lose money in brokerage and taxes only.

First, the stock market exchange and its listed scrips do not want any traders to make money. Then brokerage firms do not let you traders to go with any return and in fact embezzles traders money. Then surcharges and taxes are such that it burdens investors to give out of their pockets as if it is penalizing traders for entering in stock market. Therefore, Net Net investment in stock market is a BIG LOSS .

No trader or retail investor can make money through stock market and if made a few thousands, everything has to be returned back via taxes or its goons will come to pull the trader up from his house and implicate him in all false cases to retrieve millions of money

This is not a sales call, Mr. Farrelly. I do people's books and taxes. I don't sell young men. Nat is a grown man. He can speak for himself. If you want to know more about him, why not ask him directly? He's sitting right over there.

All things built with tax money are beautiful: so we must think or go mad.

Government is not the solution, and it is not the problem. Government is the thing that collects taxes and paves roads and chooses to either invest or not invest in the future.

This is the disease. This is the disease in America. It's not just spending, it's not just taxes, it's not just corruption. It is progressivism. And it is in both parties.

great civilization arises. The state encroaches on freedom and demands more power. People take less responsibility for themselves and want more handouts from the government. Taxes go up to pay for the handouts. The size of government explodes and economic growth slows.

The worst thing a nation can do to itself is to cultivate and maintain a supply of cheap labor. When salaries are kept down, money stops circulating, taxes bring in diminished funds, and everybody loses.

The worst thing a nation can do to itself is to cultivate and maintain a supply of cheap labor. When salaries are kept down, money stops circulating, taxes bring in diminished funds, and everybody loses. The white man thinks he's hurting us when he keeps our wages low. Actually, he's hurting himself.

I barbari non sono in sostanza una categoria culturale ma politica, che designa una popolazione non (ancora?) amministrata dallo stato. I barbari cominciano dove finiscono le tasse e i cereali.