Home / Topics / Taxes Quotes

Taxes Quotes

Browse 3462 quotes about Taxes.

Taxes Quotes

“It gave me a great notion of the credit of our present government and administration, to find people press as eagerly to pay moneyas they would to receive it; and, at the same time, a due respect for that body of men who have found out so pleasing an expedient for carrying on the common cause, that they have turned a tax into a diversion.”

People Men Body Government Found Causes Common Pay Taxes Presses Notion Credit Dues Administration Diversion Carrying On

Author:Gertrude Stein

“Revenue has increased in this way is in no small measure, I am convinced, due to our low tax policy which has helped to generate an economic expansion in the face of unfavourable circumstances.”

Way Faces Economic Policy Circumstances Taxes Lows Dues Convinced Expansion Revenue

Author:John James Cowperthwaite

“Gay marriage is a tricky issue for the Democrats due to the fact that - like taxes, defense and education - they are forced to lie about their position when running for office. In other words, Democrats are gay marriage supporters trapped in the bodies of candidates who oppose gay marriage. And no issue-reassignment surgery can help them.”

Facts Helping Body Running Lying Issues Position Gay Taxes Office Democrat Dues Defense Candidates Trapped Surgery Supporter Gay Marriage Tricky Running For Office

Author:Ann Coulter

“If one individual, or one class, can call in the aid of authority to ward off the effects of competition, it acquires a privilege and at the cost of the whole community; it can make sure of profits not altogether due to the productive services rendered, but composed in part of an actual tax upon consumers for its private profit' which tax it commonly shares with the authority that thus unjustly lent its support.”

Source: A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth

“I find it remarkable that virtually all of the large difference in labor supply between France and the United States is due to differences in tax systems. I expected institutional constraints on the operation of labor markets and the nature of the unemployment benefit system to be more important. I was surprised that the welfare gain from reducing the intratemporal tax wedge is so large.”

“If you look at the performance of the zero-income-tax-rate states and the highest-income-tax-rate states, I believe a large amount of their difference is due to taxes. Not only is it true of the last decade, but I took these numbers back 50 years. And, there's not one year in the last 50 where the zero-income-tax-rate states have not outperformed the highest-income-tax-rate states.”

Ifs Years Believe Looks States Lasts I Believe Differences Numbers Amount Taxes Highest Performances Rate Dues Decades Income Zero Income Tax

Author:Arthur Laffer

“The state has been living on a revenue which was being produced in the private sphere for private purposes and had to be deflected from these purposes by political force. The theory that construes taxes on the analogy of club dues or of the purchase of the services of, say, a doctor only proves how far removed this part of the social sciences is from scientific habits of mind.”

Mind Has Beens States Political Purpose Force Social Theory Habit Prove Taxes Doctors Clubs Dues Spheres Revenue Living On Analogies Social Science Habits Of Mind

Author:Joseph A. Schumpeter

“Due process requires some definite link, some minimum connection, between a state and the person, property or transaction it seeks to tax.”

Persons States Process Taxes Connections Property Dues Links Minimum Definite Transactions Due Process

Author:Robert H. Jackson

“If I have sex, I know my quarterly estimated taxes must be due. And if it's oral sex, I know it's time to renew my driver's license.”

Ifs Knows Sex Taxes Dues Drivers License

Author:Ray Romano

“Sex after one child shows down. After twins... ooh... I'll tell you what it is for us. I'll share it with you. Every three months. We don't plan it that way. That's just how it works out. It's the weirdest thing. You know what I do? Every time I have sex, the next day I pay my estimated tax. My quarterlies are due. If it's oral sex, I renew my driver's license.”

Ifs Knows Way Children Shows Three Next Sex Pay Plans Share Months Taxes Work Out Dues Drivers Twins Next Day License Three Months

Author:Ray Romano

“Your taxes are due a week from today. You can make out your check directly to Halliburton. Or you can do what I'm going to do. I'm filing my first joint return. No, I'm not getting married, I'm sending the IRS an actual joint with a note that says, 'If you think I'm paying for this war, you must be high.'”

Ifs Thinking Firsts War Today Can Do Week Return Taxes Married Notes Dues Checks Joints Getting Married Irs Make Out Filing

Author:Bill Maher

“Due to the major demographic changes we have gone through in the last few years in this country, we will be a majority/minority nation and there are a large number of people who do not like that. Donald Trump has tapped into those people's fears because he comes from the extreme right wing part of the Republican Party, as does Ted Cruz. They believe that we should cut taxes to wealthy Americans and enforce anti immigrant laws. They don't believe in Education or Social Security, they would end it and change it and privatize it.”

“The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind”

Social Behinds Cost Taxes Dues Gambling

Author:John Warren Kindt