Quotes About Tax

Opportunity is dead in the United States!" "The tax structure has destroyed all incentive!" How often we have heard such laments during the past thirty years, when in fact greater fortunes have been made and higher living standards achieved than ever before on earth! Those

The sales tax seems to be more politically acceptable than the income tax.

I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.

I don't think it says anywhere in the Bible that tithing should be calculated on a before-tax basis.

Supporting iconic, growth-oriented industries, combined with tax policies that encourage small business growth and investment, represents a potent combination and is the basis of our entire administration.

I don't have a flat anywhere. I'm registered in the U.K. for tax purposes, I suppose, and my mail goes to my parents.

Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.

I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money.

I personally - if I were designing the tax code - would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid more than 13 percent, given what I know about the kind of investments he made money from.

The harder you work for money, the more you are taxed, the harder your money works, the less it is taxed.

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.

When I do something stupid with money and lose it....I call that Stupid Tax. I have paid so much Stupid Tax that I am expert.

I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.

The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card. A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here.

In the liberal imagination, the money is the government's by default, and the president and Congress determine through the tax code how much to give back to the people.

Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves.

Everyone wants a more simple tax system. But if this means that certain tax breaks have to be cut, people are no longer so enthusiastic.

We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.

Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq.

The money is with people who have taken advantage of every single break in the tax code.

The corporations who invest in lobbyists, it pays in terms of tax loopholes, tax subsidies, all the rest. It pays. Clearly, the money has a big effect.

A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money.

We must move from revenue-neutral to revenue-reducing tax reform, because the federal government spends far too much money.

Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money