Quotes About Tax

A fire department isn't a waste of tax money, even if those assigned to it spend most of the time washing their cars.

To the extent that these Treasury IOUs are being built into the world's monetary base they will not have to be repaid, but are to be rolled over indefinitely. This feature is the essence of America's free financial ride, a tax imposed at the entire globe's expense.15

I was working on a flat tax proposal and accidentally proved there was no God.

If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.

I will be the greatest jobs president that God has ever created. The tax relief will be concentrated on the working and middle class. I will be president for all Americans.

Ben Carson says his flat tax will be around 15 percent. And by God, if he ever shows you the details, you'll see how awesome and deficit-killing it is.

The higher the rate, the more interest there is in avoiding the tax. Either you move or you shift your profits overseas, as American corporations have proven very good at doing.

Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.

The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate child, Federal Aid.

A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.

We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts

If income tax is the price you have to pay to keep the government on its feet, alimony is the price we have to pay for sweeping a woman off hers.

What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.

The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption.

The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending.

If Wall Street paid a tax on every "game" they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.

In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government.

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.

Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.

The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.

The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government.

It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.