Taxes Quotes

• The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable signs, not of a great, but of a decaying society. Historians know that both phenomena were especially marked in the declining eras of the Roman Empire in the West and of its successor state, the Eastern or Byzantine Empire.

  

  William Henry Chamberlin
  • Productive
  • Empires
  • Roman

• The moral of the story of the Pilgrims is that if you work hard all your life and behave yourself every minute and take no time out for fun you will break practically even, if you can borrow enough money to pay your taxes.

  

  Will Cuppy
  • Time
  • Money
  • Moral

• When taxes are too high, people go hungry.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Taxes
  • Hungry

• No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.

  

  George Washington
  • Taxes
  • Taxation
  • Inconvenient

• Everyone must be equal before the law, abide by it, pay their taxes and bear the punishment should they break the law.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Break
  • Equal
  • Taxes

• I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

  

  Berkeley Breathed
  • Professional
  • Bunch
  • Libertarian

• I think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can get institutions like schools and hospitals functioning better, well that's obviously good for the overall productiveness of our society.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Society
  • Productivity
  • Governments

• I am committed to fewer taxes, many investments, for good and new jobs, and growth which will bring better salaries and higher pensions in an efficient state.

  

  Kyriakos Mitsotakis
  • Taxes
  • Investments
  • Salaries

• If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.

  

  Milton Friedman
  • People
  • Taxes
  • Unemployment

• 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.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Value
  • Values
  • Economy

• Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.

  

  William Weld
  • Senior
  • Taxes
  • Fairness

• The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Nature
  • Names
  • Depends

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

  

  Alexander Haig
  • Long
  • Pay
  • March

• People like Donald Trump, who paid zero in taxes, zero for our vets, zero for our military, zero for health and education, that is wrong.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Education
  • Health

• I don't smoke because I like to do so, but because it makes me pay cigarette taxes, which helps build roads and water supplies.

  

  George Singleton
  • Build
  • Smoke
  • Helps

• What I'm saying is America has a job deficit because hundreds of thousands of jobs went elsewhere. Not because [Barack] Obama raised your taxes. He, in fact, lowered them. They are lower.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • America
  • Elsewhere
  • Barack

• Congress has all sorts of rules, hedge fund managers, private equity managers, executives, movie stars, fall into that allow them to escape or defer into the future not paying their taxes. And if you can defer your tax into the future, it's the best deal in the world, because you don't just get to eat your cake and have it too. You get to eat your cake and have a bigger cake.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Future
  • Rules
  • Congress

• If all those magnificent cathedrals with their valuable lands in Boston, Philadelphia and New York were taxed as they should be, the taxes of women who hold property would be proportionately lightened....I cannot see any good reason why wealthy churches and a certain amount of property of the clergy should be exempt from taxation, while every poor widow in the land, struggling to feed, clothe, and educate a family of children, must be taxed on the narrow lot and humble home.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Children
  • Property
  • Churches

• Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.

  

  Caldwell Esselstyn
  • Design
  • Taxes
  • Vegetarian

• I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Policy
  • Connections
  • Income

• Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.

  

  William Osler
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Nature

• Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?

  

  Erica Jong
  • Language
  • Phrases
  • Menace

• As for loving woman, I have never understood why some people had a fit. I still don't. It seems fine to me. If an individual is productive responsible, and energetic, why should her choice in a partner make such a fuss? The government is only too happy to take my tax money and yet they uphold legislation that keeps me a second class citizen. Surely, there should be a tax break for those of us who are robbed of full and equal participation and protection in the life of our nation.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• Last Words of Advice: If you pay your taxes and don't get into debt and go to bed early and never answer the telephone, no harm can befall you.

  

  Charles Issawi
  • Bed
  • Debt
  • Harm

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