Quotes About Finance

I know a bit about taxation and the remarkable effort that goes in to avoiding it.

We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.

Between income taxes and employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes, we're being taxed to death.

I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country.

The biggest source of getting the country to a balanced budget is not by raising taxes or by cutting spending. It's by encouraging the growth of the economy.

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

Well, I think lower taxes and less regulation would actually promote growth.

Every time the Fed implements 'quantitative easing,' a.k.a. printing more money, two things go up: taxes and inflation. When taxes and inflation go up, more jobs are lost.

I think for some, the very wealthiest among us, for corporations, taxes are too low.

We have always looked at taxes as a cost, just as any other cost that comes with doing business.

I'm not for no taxes. That would be an anarchist. I am for lower taxes.

I used to do my own taxes. You know how you buy that gigantic sheet at Staples, add up the restaurants, clothes, and taxis and glue your receipts into the book month by month? The more money I made, the more complicated things got.

I just don't want to pay taxes.

The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.

Taxes can set the level of activity around which the economy fluctuates, but they have very little effect on the fluctuations themselves.

Some taxes are really dumb.

I come from Cuba. Taxes for me are no big thing.

You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.

There are going to be no income taxes and no wealth taxes.

One tax dodge often used by multi-national companies is to squirrel their earnings abroad in foreign subsidiaries located in countries where taxes are lower.