taxes Quotes

I like to tell small business owners and entrepreneurs, \'I get it. I have your back on this. I understand about regulation. I understand how taxes are taxing. I understand what it is like not to be able to borrow money when you need it.\'

I don\'t know whether other people should or shouldn\'t pay taxes. I know I can, and I am willing, to pay more taxes. I know I should not get Social Security. I don\'t need it. Kenneth Langone

I think I should pay more taxes... but everything they take from me should go to reduce the debt.

People making $1 million a year are not going to do anything different if they pay more taxes.

We had 90 percent taxes before in America. All right? Didn\'t work.

Higher taxes kill jobs. Regulations kill jobs.

I am against all taxes. Tax is theft, which is paid by force.

When Obama talks about raising taxes on the rich, he\'s looking at me.

If Obama raises my company\'s taxes by 20 percent, how am I going to be able to survive as a company? Well, if I\'ve got 30 employees, that means I\'m going to have to lay off 10 employees so I can be able to keep up with the health and benefits and pension plans for my other 20 employees.

My biggest worry is that Obama says he\'s going to tax the upper 5 percent by raising their taxes by 20 percent. But among that 5 percent are the corporations that are hiring middle-class Americans.

Between income taxes and employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes, we\'re being taxed to death.

I\'m an American citizen. I pay my taxes. I want my equal rights. But this is my country, and consequently, I don\'t want to open up for ISIS or for anybody that will take away what we\'ve already gained.

I pay my taxes, but I\'ve never voted and I never will vote as long as the system works the way it does. Even when Obama was running, I wanted to see a woman run! I\'d rather see a woman in the White House as opposed to Obama.

High taxes on guns and strong restrictions on their availability are the only realistic hope for avoiding many more Sandy Hooks.

Sometimes, you know, once you pay your taxes and once you pay your expenses, once you\'ve lived this life, things add up quickly. And it\'s easy to become a statistic. And that\'s something I\'ve always tried to avoid, and I\'ve always said, hey - not that it won\'t be me, that, hey, it could be me.

I have a proven record, a record of accomplishment, a record of cutting taxes, of shrinking the government, of reforming education, of challenging the status quo, eliminating career civil service protections, shrinking the government workforce by 11 percent, but leading the nation in job growth.

It isn\'t inevitable that we have a globalization which is used by the corporations not to pay taxes. It is not inevitable that we have a form of globalization in which corporations use the threat of moving jobs abroad to lower wages. None of this is inevitable.

Our tax plan by the way shows the vast, vast majority of Americans, upwards of 96 percent can fill out their taxes on a postcard.

I\'m a fiscal hawk. I vote against all taxes, but I do believe the environment, and climate change, is a bigger issue than fiscal deficits are as a risk to the nation.

They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I\'ve done it, and there\'s consequences, but it can be done. Death you\'re not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it.

The left does understand how raising taxes reduces economic activity. How about their desire for increasing cigarette taxes, soda taxes? What are they trying to do? Get you to buy less. They know. They know that higher taxes reduce activity. It\'s real simple: If you want more of an activity, lower taxes on it. If you want less of an activity, raise taxes. So if you want more jobs? It\'s very simple. You lower payroll taxes. If you don\'t want as many jobs, then you raise corporate taxes. It\'s that simple, folks.

There\'s no way you can grow an economy with that, with that many people not working and not paying taxes, you can have any kind of government solvency, you can\'t have any kind of growing economy, which is exactly what the Democrats want, by the way. Much better for the Democrats that you don\'t work. The more you work, the less dependent on them you are. If this sounds hideous, I\'m sorry, it\'s true.

If you have the desire, if you really had people with the burning desire to lower taxes, it would be done. We know the Democrats don\'t want to do it.

The Clinton Foundation has had to refile their taxes. And I remember when the first report came, the reaction everybody had. \"Well, how come they get to do it again instead of being penalized for it? You file wrong, and you make a mistake, and they\'re gonna come at you and demand penalties and what. The Clintons made a mistake three times and they\'re allowed to refile?\" And then we realize what the IRS did to Tea Party fundraising groups, denying them status.

We are under the stifling regulation and taxes of a predominantly left-wing type of thinking and philosophy. The eight years of Barack Obama have shrouded this country in punitive regulations. We haven\'t had economic growth higher than one and a half percent for the last eight or nine years, and that was done on purpose. There have been robust times in the past, and there are a lot of people right now that are doing well and are growing. But generally it ought to be much better in the past. There needs to be an economic revival.

Fannie Mae is owned by shareholders but operates under a federal charter that exempts it from paying state or local taxes. As a result, many professional investors think the government would repay the debt that Fannie Mae had issued if the company could not, although Fannie Mae explicitly says that its bonds do not carry a federal guarantee.

We\'re looking to make sure things are fair, and we\'re always looking at ways to lower taxes for the middle class and raise them on the wealthiest one per cent.

The basic social contract is that citizens agree to follow the law, pay their taxes, and devote their love and loyalty to their country, and in exchange, the nation commits to preserve and protect and serve their interests, safeguard their freedom, and return to them in kind their first allegiance and loyalty.

You need basically some accountability rules, which means democratic checks and balances at the euro zone level, and definitely, you have to increase convergence in terms of taxes, in terms of social affairs and so on.

In Israel, taxes go to defense, debt repayment, and money for those close to power. Help for children, illness, and old age is so small, as if the basic tax was 4%, and not 40%. If there is a country where people have no reason to pay taxes and support the state, it is Israel. The Israelis understand this and try not to pay.