Quotes on Tax

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

Author: Douglas Adams

An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.

Author: Fred Allen

I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations.

Author: Tom Allen

Our current tax system is broken.

Author: Dick Armey

Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas.

Author: Joe Baca

I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that.

Author: Michael Badnarik

There certainly is a lot of political pressure for states to adopt the new federal tax codes. But there is no law that requires them to do so.

Author: John Barry

The IRS is currently considering a rule that would make it easier for tax preparers to disclose the private information contained in tax returns - including name, address, Social Security number, employer, income, and charitable donations.

Author: Melissa Bean

We all know what the problems are: it's tax and spend. One party will tax and spend, the other party won't tax but will spend. It's both of them together.

Author: Glenn Beck

I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?

Author: Milton Berle

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

Author: John Berryman

No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.

Author: Joe Biden

If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase.

Author: Matt Blunt

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

Author: Wernher Braun

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.

Author: Art Buchwald

Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.

Author: Jeb Bush

We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible.

Author: Peter Camejo

Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

Author: Camillo Cavour

There is no such thing as a good tax.

Author: Winston Churchill

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.

Author: Nick Clooney

Currently, 94 out of 100 of us pay the Social Security tax all year round.

Author: Nick Clooney

Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income.

Author: Mark Dayton

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.

Author: Thomas Dewar

I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for.

Author: Jonathan Dimbleby

Unfortunately the Republican tax cut will deny important revenues to many states facing their own deficits. This will create greater pressure for higher state and local taxes.

Author: Dick Durbin

I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year.

Author: Michael Easley

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

Author: Albert Einstein

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Author: Ralph Emerson

In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.

Author: Newt Gingrich

In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federal income tax return. This includes individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations.

Author: Virgil Goode

If you increase taxes now on - at any level, it's going to make it harder to create jobs And we've lost 2 1/2 million jobs since the stimulus package passed. We're at 9.6 unemployment. So I don't think we tax too little, I think we spend too much.

Author: Lindsey Graham

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.

Author: Luis Gutierrez

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

Author: Albert Hart

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.

Author: Robert Heinlein

Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.

Author: Auberon Herbert

Missouri remains a low tax, efficiently run state, according to all prominent national rankings.

Author: Bob Holden

We shall tax and tax, and spend and spend, and elect and elect.

Author: Harry Hopkins

The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment of other priorities and does little to put our nation's fiscal house in order.

Author: Jim Jeffords

Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.

Author: William Jenkins

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Author: Charles Kettering

New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut.

Author: Craig Kilborn

One of the things we worry about when we cut the tax on gasoline is that it basically stimulates additional use.

Author: Edward Lazear

Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'

Author: Russell Long

Who's on the case when it comes to the flat tax?

Author: Joshua Marshall

It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services... but also really make you wonder: who is City Hall looking out for?

Author: Laura Miller

We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.

Author: Richard Neal

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.

Author: Richard Neal

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

Author: Randy Newman

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

Author: Isabel Paterson

1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.

Author: Ron Paul

Tax what you burn not what you earn.

Author: Christine Pelosi

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Author: Plato

I don't go tanning anymore because Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning. McCain would never put a 10 percent tax on tanning. Because he's pale and would probably want to be tan.

Author: Nicole Polizzi

He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer.

Author: William Proxmire

By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.

Author: Robert Quine

I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands.

Author: Robert Quine

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

Author: John Ray

I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.

Author: Ed Rendell

Number one I think we should impose a fee or a tax on the transportation of trash per mile.

Author: Ed Rendell

We are all are equal, but some pay higher tax rates than others.

Author: Jeff Rich

Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring.

Author: Paul Ryan

We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax.

Author: Otto Schily

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

Author: Robert Strauss

Tax cuts are an investment in working families.

Author: Tommy Thompson

Today, and I'm very strongly against tax increases.

Author: Donald Trump

Once the housing market begins to recover, I would phase out the mortgage tax deduction.

Author: Joshua Tucker

For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded.

Author: Anthony Weiner

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.

Author: Bill Weld

The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.

Author: Jerry Weller

Tax breaks can serve a vital role in keeping and bringing jobs to our state; however, without accountability, they are little more than loopholes at taxpayers' expense.

Author: Jeanne Welles

I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.

Author: Allen West

Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic.

Author: John Whiting