Quotes About Tax

You can't use the tax code as a penal system because you don't like what a country is doing.

For years, people have begged Washington for a tax code that is simple and easy to understand.

The tax code is just too big.

If you buy something on the Internet, and they didn't collect tax, you're supposed to pay it - but nobody knows that. So there's trillions of dollars that were never collected.

Congress: Bingo with billions.

As a conservative myself that, you know, generally I would have a point of view that less regulation is better than more regulation, but less regulation shouldn't supersede a tax on the fundamentally important institutions that sustain a democratic republic.

Progressive Democratic President Barack Obama swept into power hell-bent on forcing through a makeover of our nation's healthcare system. The result was a costly new tax and failed programme, the Affordable Care Act.

We want to repeal the ObamaCare tax. We want to save middle class families from European health care. And that's what we're going to do as a party and that's what Mitt Romney will do on day one.

prohibiting use of state tax dollars "directly or indirectly in aid of any church, sect, or religious denomination or in aid of any sectarian institution.

missîm. The term missîm in Hebrew refers to a sort of tax, not of money but of physical labor. Citizens owed a month of required work to the government each year.

People who buy equity ETF shares in taxable accounts, such as a joint account or trust account, will find their tax bill may be slightly lower at the end of the year than if they had purchased the same amount in a comparable open-end index fund.

passed to make anything a crime. Do you realize, Mr. Scott, that 'a heavy progressive, or graduated, income tax' is one of the cardinal points of the Communist Manifesto? Sure. Point two, between 'Abolition of property in land' and 'Abolition of all right of inheritance.' But, since we're stuck with it, Mr. Lorimer, what was the beef against you?

I lit a cigarette and said to Feldspen, "That sounds to me like the biggest extortion this side of the Federal Income Tax. Are you sure the guy was serious?

The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.

We've been able to access deals that under our former relationship with Disney - with tax advantages and strategic partners - that we just weren't able to do.

I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness.

The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.

The Second Turning was the Consciousness Revolution, stretching from the campus revolts of the mid-1960s to the tax revolts of the early 1980s. Before John Kennedy was assassinated, no one predicted that America was about to enter an era of personal liberation and cross a cultural divide that would separate anything thought or said after from anything thought or said before. But that's what happened.

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

What kind of people are we? What are our shared values? Many congressional Republicans think it's fine to give billions of dollars in tax breaks to giant oil companies and corporations that park their money overseas, even as medical research budgets are hit by another round of cuts and care centers have long waiting lists. But those spending choices don't reflect the values of the American people.

Massive debts owed to foreign creditors weaken our global influence and threaten high inflation and steep tax increases for our children and grandchildren.

Demographics show that we are entering a battle between young and old. I call it the 'Age War.' The young want to hang onto their money to grow their families, businesses, and wealth. The old want the tax and investment dollars of the young to sustain their old age.

In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.