Taxes Quotes

The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control.

I come from Cuba. Taxes for me are no big thing.

After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.

The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year.

Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade and shifting from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy sources.

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

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.

The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain's, where a slower economy has been combined with a number of stealth taxes.

I agreed with everything he was saying when he ran for president. I was listening to what he said. I go, this guy thinks like me and I agree with him. Now he's changing. All he keeps saying is millionaires and billionaires don't pay their fair share of taxes.

I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.

The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and $140 billion in Federal, State, and local taxes.

Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.

The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this.

Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.

If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the extent to which we're able to reduce unemployment. So I think it's a serious mistake; the wrong time to raise taxes.

I think the latest estimates were that we have about 250,000 millionaires and billionaires. President Obama wants to increase their taxes 13 percent.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.

But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.

The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.

When Governor Romney was out here, I told him, I said, 'we are following the formula of streamlining regulations, being job creating friendly, balancing budgets, cutting taxes, and, you know, using common sense. And if you get to be president, we are going to do more of that.'

Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.

Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.