Taxes Quotes

Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.

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.

It's not just spending, it's not just taxes, it's not just corruption, it is progressivism, and it is in both parties. It is in the Republicans and the Democrats.

Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting any new spending cuts, you have the markets not wanting any new borrowing, and you have the economists wanting all of the above. And that leads to paralysis.

We have to deal with two issues. Spending and taxes.

I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy.

It's not hard to cut taxes.

I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.

You don't raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.

One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.

In the end, all Republicans want to make sure we don't increase taxes. That's where we differ with the Democrats.

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

I'm not going to raise taxes; I'm not going to have a wage increase for public employees.

What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes.

Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.

You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget.

Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw your taxes.

I don't like paying taxes, but I like sleeping at night.

You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.

I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

We rule out raising taxes this year.

Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures, and we will come out of it. We will go back into surplus position when the economy recovers. So there is no need in Canada to raise taxes.

Most people sell stock to pay taxes, but I didn't want to sell any stock.

We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.

You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.

Texans should not be taxed on our taxes.

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia.

One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.

Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.

The payment of taxes is an obvious and insistent duty, and its sanction is usually punitive.

A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations.

Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.

I plan to lower corporate taxes to create an environment that encourages companies to invest more.

To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

So I don't feel particularly wealthy-but, you know, I pay my taxes and I know that I am.

We can push Montana forward and we can do it with out raising taxes.

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

I've built companies, I've created jobs, I know the frustration of small businesses with higher taxes.

My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don't owe you a penny.

The combination of Obamacare and taxes would be a disaster.

We owe the government taxes. We owe our creditors interest. What do these powers owe us?

I've always been paying my taxes and I've always been trying to comply.

I am for lowering taxes.

Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.

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