Tax Quotes - page 3

Indoors or out, no one relaxes; In March, that month of wind and taxes, The wind will presently disappear, The taxes last us all the year. (Ogden Nash)
Look, we're all the same a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up. View quote
Arthur Miller
I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field. View quote
Dan Ariely
If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money. View quote
James Surowiecki
President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage. View quote
Bill Shuster
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. View quote
Geraldine Ferraro
After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies. View quote
Howard Coble
A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax. View quote
Nick Clooney
The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't. View quote
Peter Maxwell Davies
It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of alternative minimum tax. (Richard Neal)
I strongly support tax relief for the middle class. View quote
Rick Larsen
Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class. View quote
Rick Larsen
It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system. View quote
Robert W. Welch, Jr.
For my constituents, owning a home is the culmination of many years of hard work and the realization of the American Dream. At no time should a local entity take those years of hard work solely to increase their tax revenue. View quote
Solomon Ortiz
To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily. View quote
Warren Beatty
To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable. View quote
Yannick Noah
Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian location should be chosen for dumping down all kaffirs of the town, passes my comprehension. Of course, under my suggestion, the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population, and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Longevity, for a columnist, is a simple proposition: Once you start, you don't stop. You do it until you die or can no longer put a sentence together. It has always been my intention to die at my desk, although my most cherished ambition is to outlive the estate tax. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship, and if that happened, then they wouldn't be prey to the employers who say, 'We want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else. View quote
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps, no legislative act in which greater opportunity and temptation are given to a predominant party to trample on the rules of justice. Every shilling which they overburden the inferior number is a shilling saved to their own pockets. (James Madison)
When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, then may the country boast of its constitution and its government. View quote
Thomas Paine
There are two distinct classes of men in the nation, those who pay taxes, and those who receive and live upon the taxes. View quote
Thomas Paine
The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
A tax can never be favorable to the public welfare, except by the good use that is made of its proceeds. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say