Quotes About Finance

We all have to pay our bills. We all have to pay our taxes. Straight up.

Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.

Everybody should pay taxes.

Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.

There is an old adage that the quickest way to drop your tax take is to increase taxes. If capital gains tax is going to be 50 percent, my contingent capital gains tax is going to be 250 million pounds.

I love talking about taxes.

I just simply can't support having my constituents pay more taxes and not receive more benefits for their tax payments.

We have to deal with two issues. Spending and taxes.

We have to have an adequate number of taxes and an adequate amount of taxes.

I want paying taxes to feel like the accomplishment of a civic duty.

I support both a Fair Tax and a Flat Tax plan that would dramatically streamline the tax system. A Fair Tax would replace all federal taxes on personal and corporate income with a single national tax on retail sales, while a Flat Tax would apply the same tax rate to all income with few if any deductions or exemptions.

I think most people... would be glad to pay the same taxes they paid when Bill Clinton was president, if only they could have the same economy they had when Bill Clinton was president.

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

And that does concern me, because we're not getting enough back for our taxes that we're paying. I think we really have to look at the whole sort of area.

There's no recovery on Main Street, I can tell you that for sure. And in a re - in an economy like this, we don't need to be raising anybody's taxes.

I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.

We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government.

We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise taxes; we came back in '05, and we had an $8 billion surplus. That's how fast it can happen.

You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.

I plan to lower corporate taxes to create an environment that encourages companies to invest more.

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

It's critical to show that we can meet our commitment to students with disabilities without raising taxes and without increasing the deficit. In the past, there's been strong support for full funding and I'm still hearing that from many of my colleagues.

Let me tell you, the heart of my tax proposal: I will not raise taxes on the American people. I will not raise taxes on middle-income Americans.

The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business.