Tax Quotes

There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes.

~ Ragnar Tørnquist

By today’s standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum. His actual impact on their personal lives was trivial. He had arbitrary power over them in law and in principle but in fact it was seldom exercised. If you compare his rule with that of today’s U.S. Government you have to wonder why we celebrate our independence..

~ Joseph Sobran

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.

~ Ron Paul

*Prostitution* is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I found most of my friends quite content to be used as tax-material, even though the sums of money taken from them were employed against their own beliefs and interests. They had lived so long under the system of using others, and then in their turn being used by them, that they were like hypnotized subjects, and looked on this subjecting and using of each other as a part of the necessary and even Providential order of things. The great machine had taken possession of their souls.

~ Auberon Herbert

A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee’s dream on hold.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation, he will be arrested or shot if he should continue to resist.

~ Murray N. Rothbard

Was our intimacy paid for in the wrong currency? Or is intimacy the desired product no matter where you find it, how you acquire it, what you pay for it, black market, grey market, taxed, untaxed, under the table, over the counter.

~ André Aciman

the larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the total tax burden grows beyond a bearable size, the problem of devising taxes that will not discourage and disrupt production becomes insoluble.

~ Henry Hazlitt

Wars have been waged over millions of square miles, significantly larger than the British Empire at its peak. Historically, Islamic conquests stretched from southern France to the Philippines, from Austria to Nigeria, and from central Asia to New Guinea. The Muslim goal was to have a central government, first at Damascus, and then at Baghdad, later at Cairo, Istanbul, and other imperial centres. The local governors, judges, and other rulers were appointed by the central imperial authorities for far off colonies. Islamic law was introduced as the senior law, whether or not wanted by the local people. Arabic was introduced as the rulers’ language, while the local languages frequently disappeared. Then, two classes of residents were established. The native residents paid a tax that their rulers did not have to pay. In each case, these laws allowed the local conquered people less freedom than was given to Muslims.

~ Anita B. Sulser Phd

To the people who are upset about their hard-earned tax money going to things they don’t like: welcome to the f*cking club. Reimburse me for the Iraq war and oil subsidies, and diaphragms are on me!

~ Jon Stewart

Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most.

~ A.e. Samaan

My Son, Only Tax and Death are for sure.

~ Csaba Gabor-B.

Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who do not pay tax.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

She looked at her note cards and took a breath. Why I Love America, by Hayley McDonald's. America is the greatest group of countries in the world because we have freedom. In countries like France, where the Government isn't privatized, they still have to pay tax and do whatever the Government says, which would really suck. In USA countries, we respect individual rights and let people do whatever they want.

~ Max Barry

Rand had changed a number of laws in Tear, especially those that weighed heavily on the poor, but he had been unable to change everything. He had not even known how to begin. Lews Therin began to maunder on about taxes and money creating jobs, but he might as well have been spilling out words at random for all the sense he made.

~ Robert Jordan

The bourgeoisie are today evading taxation by bribery and through their connections, we must close all loopholes.

~ Vladimir Lenin

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

~ Will Rogers

My opponents attitude is, 'If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it and when it stops, subsidize it.

~ Rob Simmons

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

~ Judith Viorst

Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.

~ George Osborne

The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.

~ Thomas Sowell

I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form.

~ Geoffrey Rush

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

~ John Marshall

It seems like the richer you are, the more chance you have of paying less tax.

~ John Mcenroe

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

~ George Sewell

I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.

~ N. R. Narayana Murthy

Out of one pocket we pay billions of our tax dollars to support the production of expensive, disease-causing foods. Out of the other pocket, we pay medical bills that are too high because our overweight population consumes too much of these rich, disease-causing foods.

~ Joel Fuhrman

The medical device tax repeal is the only proposal that had the most bipartisan votes coming out of the House and has the opportunity in the Senate to gain tractions, and it fixes a part of ObamaCare in terms of repealing an awful tax. And it's got bipartisan support.

~ Erik Paulsen

Quality health care services must be accessible and affordable for all - not just those in certain ZIP codes or tax brackets.

~ Rick Scott

The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

~ Adam Mckay

Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that?

~ Rush Limbaugh

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

~ Charles Kettering

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

~ Douglas Adams

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

~ Bill Vaughan

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

~ Barry Goldwater

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.

~ Alan Keyes

We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.

~ Marco Rubio

Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.

~ Ha-Joon Chang

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

~ Thomas Sowell