Quotes About Taxes

The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hotlines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly.

It's tax season. When I woke this morning and realized it was tax season, I said, My God, didn't we just pay taxes last year?

But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.

All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?

The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip, isn't it?

If 10% is good enough for Jesus, it oughta be enough for Uncle Sam.

We're the highest taxed nation in the world. When I finish the plan, we'll be among the lower taxed, which is very good. I'd like to be the lowest, but you can't be the lowest.

Tax dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.

No Taxes. Let's just tip the government 15% if they do a good job.

Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.

To the people who are upset about their hard-earned tax money going to things they don't like: welcome to the f*cking club. Reimburse me for the Iraq war and oil subsidies, and diaphragms are on me!

Occasionally, a finger comes up to wipe a tear [of laughter] from the eye... and that's my reward... the rest goes to the government.

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

In other words, governments do not collect taxes to provide services, they provide services as an excuse to collect taxes.

Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and keep an eye on us. They'd rather rule than serve.

Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

The government does not add value to the economy. It removes value from the economy by imposing taxes on one citizen and providing cash to another.

Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some.

Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government

Tariffs protect ill-considered government policies, such as costly regulations and high taxes on labor and capital that make our goods uncompetitive in international markets.