Tax Quotes

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.

~ Manmohan Singh

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

~ Albert Einstein

There is no such thing as a good tax.

~ Unknown

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.

~ Thomas Sowell

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

~ Glenda Jackson

A greater tax deduction for students is not a handout. On the contrary, it helps those who are willing to meet the challenges of higher education to invest in our collective future.

~ Charles B. Rangel

In order to invest in our future, we must ensure that we appropriately protect programs that provide skills, services, and education for middle-class Americans rather than providing tax breaks for large corporations.

~ John F. Tierney

If you don't drink, smoke, or drive a car, you're a tax evader.

~ Thomas S. Foley

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

~ David Suzuki

This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

~ Joe Biden

It's a social contract we make. We're willing to give up certain things. We give you the right to tax us. We give you the right to lock us up. We give you the right to put us on surveillance, search our homes, whatever and, in exchange, we get a functioning society that keeps us relatively safe, and that's the tradeoff we make.

~ Matt Apuzzo

Just as TurboTax simplified much of the tax process, so has the colossally scary legal process been reduced to a kinder, gentler series of mouse clicks and 'Continue' buttons by LegalZoom, the online leader that has become so prominent in its market that it's practically a generic.

~ Lynda Resnick

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

~ Herbert Spencer

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.

~ Bill Gates