Taxes Quotes

It's time for the bully pulpit of the White House to bring the gangstas in, put them around the table and let them know that if they don't come up with loan modifications and keep people in their homes that they've worked so hard for, we're gonna tax them out of business.

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.

If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.

If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying that you want a country based on Christian values. Because you don't!

When the Liberals said they were going to create a million new jobs, I didn't think they were all going to be tax collectors. If you can't convince them, confuse them.

Sugar is the next tobacco, without a doubt, and that industry should be scared.

It should be taxed just like tobacco and anything else that can, frankly, destroy lives.

Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you -- either by direct taxes, or by the cruelly indirect tax of inflation.

On the whole, I prefer not to be lectured on patriotism by those who keep offshore maildrops in order to avoid paying their taxes.

It cannot be good to tax the Americans... You will lose more than you gain.

A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.

What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft.

What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social Justice.

It has been a long road. From a mountain coolie, a bearer of loads, to a wearer of a coat with rows of medals who is carried about in planes and worries about income tax.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction

Ultimately, what may be needed to address the obesity problem are direct taxes on body weight.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

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.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements.

It is time to tax and regulate marijuana like alcohol.

It is time to end the arrests of so many people and the destruction of so many lives for possessing marijuana.

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.

The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

Earnings before interest and taxes - interest and taxes from the result. Earnings before taxes (EBT) is the money retained by the firm before deducting the money to be paid for taxes. EBT includes

Tax evasion - Tax evasion is the illegal evasion of taxes by individuals, corporations, and trusts. Tax evasion often entails taxpayers deliberately misrepresenting

Corporate tax - country's tax system. Such taxes may include income or other taxes. The tax systems of most countries impose an income tax at the entity level on certain

Sales tax - conventional sales taxes to be replaced by more broadly based value-added taxes. Value -added taxes provide an estimated 20% of worldwide tax revenue and have

Tax avoidance - the law. Tax sheltering is very similar. Tax havens are jurisdictions which facilitate reduced taxes. While forms of tax avoidance which use tax laws in

List of taxes - companion page to tax, lists different taxes by economic design. For different taxes by country, see Tax rates around the world. Taxes generally fall into

Inheritance tax - inheritance tax. Some cantons impose estate taxes or inheritance taxes. United Kingdom: see inheritance tax (United Kingdom) (actually an estate tax) United

Withholding tax - greatly. Taxes withheld may be eligible for a foreign tax credit in the payee's home country. Most withholding tax systems require withheld taxes to be remitted

Poll tax - minority voters (especially under Reconstruction). Poll taxes are considered very regressive taxes, are usually very unpopular and have been implicated in

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.

The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code's complexity are the ones that put together what they now call a convoluted monstrosity. They put it into effect.

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes.

That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

Always overpay your taxes.That way you'll get a refund.

The greatest threat to public confidence in elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters.

I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.

In 1848, Thoreau went to jail for refusing, as a protest against the Mexican war, to pay his poll tax. When RW Emerson came to bail him out, Emerson said, 'Henry, what are you doing in there?' Thoreau quietly replied, 'Ralph, what are you doing out there?'