Taxes Quotes

Peace is the best time for improvement and preparation of every kind; it is in peace that our commerce flourishes most, that taxes are most easily paid, and that the revenue is most productive.

A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.

Prosperity of the middling and lower orders depends upon the fortunes and light taxes of the rich.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

I wouldn't mind paying taxes... if I knew they were going to a friendly country

Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him

The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War II, US top tax rates on the wealthy were never below 70 percent.

Higher income people don't have to pay taxes if they don't want to.

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy.

No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.

Tax and Tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.

In a system where the cost of care is hidden by taxes levied on your income, property, and business activities, it is no wonder why so many Americans rely on Medicaid to pay their long term care.

Historically, the best way to convert liberals is to have them move out of their parents' home, get a job, and start paying taxes.

In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the Greek president Barack Obama-opolis.

Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.

In my home state of Indiana we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced budgets, low taxes.

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

In other words, governments do not collect taxes to provide services, they provide services as an excuse to collect taxes.

The tax code is 10 times the size of the Bible with none of the good news.

I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.

Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't have to pay taxes

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

A lot of really smart, wealthy people know that [slashing taxes on the wealthy hasn't worked.]

Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and keep an eye on us. They'd rather rule than serve.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business.

You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.

The surest thing in the world is not death and taxes, it's death and eternity. Yet, we're so unconcerned.

Democracy is mob rule with income taxes.

Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific animals

The government does not add value to the economy. It removes value from the economy by imposing taxes on one citizen and providing cash to another.

If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.

Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector

It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.

Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

We tax air passengers like cigarettes and alcohol - we impose sin taxes on travellers.

It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.

While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.