Quotes About Tax

much of the effect was offset by spending cuts and tax increases undertaken by state and local governments.

"Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments."

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.

Tax policy should reflect a country's values and address its problems.

In my view, until the U.S. tax policy is revised, not just tax extenders but the reform of tax policy, it makes it very attractive for us to invest on acquisition overseas.

A lack of reform - particularly in international tax - has hurt our ability to compete in a global economy by keeping U.S. corporate cash overseas and reducing domestic investment, slowing economic growth.

We must reduce the lavish tax giveaways enjoyed for too long by too many businesses without regard for their poor return on investment and their negative impact on the state budget. This spending must be cut so the revenue can be redirected to more critical priorities.

The sales tax, excise and property registration departments are all more eager to collect cash in their drawers than to collect for the government's coffers.

We need to cut the capital gains tax; we need to take regulations off the backs of business and allow banks to once again lend.

Nearly every policy during the Obama years was anti-growth: tax increases; minimum-wage hikes; ObamaCare; Dodd-Frank regulations; massive debt spending; the Paris climate change accord; an EPA assault against American energy; massive expansions of food-stamps programs and more.

As a businessman, you need economic certainty. On the tax policies. You need it on your regulatory policies.

What you do on immigration policy, what you do on education policy, what you do on tax, regulatory, and energy policy, all connects together - and will be based on a simple determination about what will make life better in America for American citizens.

You talk to tax attorneys who are not politically motivated, and they will tell you they would never advise their client to release any tax information in the course of an audit.

What I usually do is hoard money - I accumulate as much as possible in the fear of not having enough to pay tax.

We must stop tax giveaways to rich corporations and developers while our schools are crumbling and people are losing their homes.

When I looked at it and did my homework on this issue, I concluded that a flat tax is better than a consumption tax.

I am very open to looking at potential tax changes to improve housing affordability.

Corruption is a tax imposed on any society that doesn't pay people enough to repel it themselves.

You walk into any supermarket or any shopping mall and ask the public what they are worried about. Not one of them will tell you they are worried about 12 years of Mitt Romney's tax returns.

And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through.

I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second.

Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental tax.

To some, a cap-and-trade system might sound like a neat approach where the market sorts everything out. But in fact, in some ways it is worse than a tax. With a tax, the costs are obvious. With a cap-and-trade system, the costs are hidden and shifted around. For that reason, many politicians tend to like it. But that is dangerous.