Quotes About Taxes

It has been possible to trace historically back to a very early age the taxes which were imposed on medicines, spices and similar substances in German towns. Thus, for instance, one finds that in the year 1500, thirteen, in 1540, thirty-eight, and in 1708, already one hundred and twenty vegetable oils are mentioned.

The rich support the poor primarily via taxes.

Public buildings, built from the rates and taxes paid by past generations, are being auctioned off by impoverished councils who need the money to pay the redundancies of workers they can no longer afford to employ. Many of these grand Victorian buildings will be turned into flats that most people will never be able to afford.

You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

I knew there was evil in the world. Death and taxes were all necessary evils. So was shopping. "I hate shopping," I muttered. "Of course you do," Phaelan said. "You're a Benares. We're not used to paying for anything.

S corporations do not pay taxes. For tax purposes, they are treated primarily as a partnership with profits and losses passed through to the owners. All income and expenses are passed through to the owners/shareholders, even if they include you, your spouse, and your children.

Taxes for people with too much damned time on their hands.

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.

I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

Congress sets the rules and says: "Save all the taxes you can, but play the game according to the rules. If there is an inequity, we'll change the rules.

It was really shocking to me that when I was dating a dude I could get married and my taxes were 8 grand less, blah blah blah.

Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn't be related.

Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.

It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling.

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

whenever there are any taxes, the one who's just pays more tax on an equal amount of property, the other less, and whenever [343E] there are allotments, the former gains nothing, the latter a lot.

With vivid memories of the last IRS form, I had signed, I agreed sympathetically that a two percent tax rate was a positive outrage, wondering to myself just what had become of the fiery spirit of American taxpayers over the intervening two hundred years.

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

Death just shouldn't be a taxable event.

Dying should not be a taxable event.

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

Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn't be related.