Tax Quotes

• If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • You
  • Control
  • Tax

• I can understand where the oil company wants to deduct the cost of drilling a well. That's one of the tax breaks for oil companies - the subsidies - they get to deduct the cost of the well the year you drill.

  

  Dan Benishek
  • Company
  • Tax
  • Oil

• The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading grievance holds that the 16th Amendment, which authorizes the federal income tax, was ratified through fraud.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Government
  • Tax

• Along with Senator Lieberman and others, I introduced the Energy Security Bill to use existing technologies with a variety of tax incentives to reduce our dependence on oil.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Energy
  • Security
  • Tax

• Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.

  

  Charlotte Lennox
  • Great
  • Sincerity
  • Politeness

• The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Life
  • American

• Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Public
  • Tax
  • Censure

• Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Like
  • Tax

• Conservatives in general, and even so called Tea Party conservatives, are not against transportation spending. Indeed, interstate commerce is one purpose of interstate highways and byways, and is one of the things the federal government is actually supposed to spend our tax dollars on. What conservatives are opposed to is needless and excessive spending, pork-barrel spending, deficit spending, spending to pick winners and losers among American individuals and corporations, and spending to promote the social and economic whims of the Washington few.

  

  Barry Loudermilk
  • Government
  • Corporations
  • Losers

• There are no extensions for IRA contributions, even if you have an extension to file your tax return.

  

  Ed Slott
  • Tax
  • Contributions
  • Extensions

• I believe it is not a question of whether or not we support tax cuts, ... It really is a question of what we can afford to do now in the current economic and fiscal climate.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Believe
  • Support
  • Question

• In Greece, Italy and, to a lesser extent, France, unsustainable tax cuts and spending sprees added to households' estimates of their private wealth relative to their wage income.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Wealth
  • Tax
  • France

• I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Country
  • Pay
  • Reasons

• As a businessman, you need economic certainty. On the tax policies. You need it on your regulatory policies.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • You
  • Need
  • Tax

• Tax increases aren't the answer. It would remove income from Americans' pockets, slow or stagnate job creation, and potentially lead to an overall economic downturn.

  

  Dan Burton
  • Job
  • Answer
  • Increases

• If (a U.S.citizen) has really been out of the country for a long while and really has no particular connection there, they will probably still have to file a tax return,

  

  John Whiting
  • Country
  • Connection
  • Particular

• The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Action
  • Danger
  • Accepted

• Everyone else is parsing it in terms of lowering the corporate income tax. Eliminate it. It's not that big of a generator of income, and it's a double tax. Get rid of it, and you would have an explosion of hiring.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • You
  • Everyone
  • Tax

• I will not stand for any tax increase for middle class or working Americans. There is no way I will support that.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Support
  • Tax
  • Middle-class

• The Republican tax cut threatens to undercut both veterans health care and the veterans educational benefits that have been recognized for decades as not only the long-standing obligation of the Nation to its veterans, but also as the best recruiting incentives we can offer to keep our armed forces strong and sharp.

  

  Lane Evans
  • Health
  • Republican
  • Veterans

• We must end the iniquitous multi-taxing of the same money. It is not right to tax people's incomes, then their savings on that income, to tax the movement of assets through capital gains tax, stamp duty and tax them again through inheritance tax if they have the audacity to die.

  

  Liam Fox
  • People
  • Money
  • Die

• Well, there's a lot of types of tax cuts in the menu ... Some people are talking about an across-the-board tax cut, there's marriage penalty, there's reduction for earnings test and seniors and Social Security. There's a lot of things that we're looking at and I think whatever we do will be part of a mix.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Social Security

• I solemnly swear that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to the Queen when she pays her income tax.

  

  Dennis Skinner
  • Faithful
  • Allegiance
  • Pays

• A fool and his money are soon parted. It takes creative tax laws for the rest.

  

  Bob Thaves
  • Money
  • Rest
  • Fool

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