Quotes About Taxes

Any politician promising not to raise your taxes is like a vampire promising to become a vegetarian.

Unlike every other retirement vehicle, such as IRAs and 401(k)s, you receive a tax deduction for making contributions to your HSA but don't have to pay income taxes on withdrawals.

Raising taxes is not a frivolous venture that you do on the editorial page of 'The New Republic,' for god sakes. It's something that you really have to think about and go through carefully.

But on the plus side, I was living like a millionaire without paying higher taxes, and I got to hang out with a Real Live Hollywood Star and eat haute cuisine. Of

I mean, shouldn't there be more? There's not even enough to add up to anything except another wage slave so dumb I even pay my taxes. And

I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization."5

The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.

We need to profoundly revise all of our taxes and charges. The aim is to tax pollution - notably fossil fuels - more, and tax work less

It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.

Do you work for the government, any government?" "I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.

Now, people have a hard time understanding how taxes work.

A student who has excelled in the classroom should have the opportunity to attend college and become a productive, taxpaying member of society.

So to line up this simple comparison, in revenue terms the personal income tax sector is 4.7 times greater than the corporate sector. The relative "cheating factor" is about 6 to 1, with more of the cheating done on the personal income tax. In terms of those simple proportions, individuals would appear to cheat more on their taxes than businesses do.

By issuing our own money we can eliminate all income taxes and employment taxes and the national debt would cease to exist.

how does a state manage to achieve, all at once, the highest basket of gas, sales, and income taxes, yet rate nearly dead last in roads and highways, or school performance tests, and have the nation's greatest number of billionaires, and one-sixth of America's welfare recipients, and the largest percentage of any state population below the poverty line?

The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.

Those who have safe and secure jobs pay more taxes than those who own the business that provides the jobs

In a system where the cost of care is hidden by taxes levied on your income, property, and business activities, it is no wonder why so many Americans rely on Medicaid to pay their long term care.

The politicians say 'we' can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians.

Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least.

Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.

It is business that generates the jobs, income and taxes that keep a country going.