I also realized growing up that all the best things were free: friends, nature, learning and health care. That’s why I gladly pay my taxes. And that’s why I clap the NHS. – Ricky Gervais
As more and more Americans own shares of stock, more and more Americans understand that taxing businesses is taxing them. Regulating businesses is taxing them. They ought to be thinking long-term about their ownership, not just their income, and that they should pay taxes on capital, as well as taxes on labor. – Grover Norquist
When I see the hatred exacted at Mr. Obama – you know, he lowered your taxes, killed your number one bad guy and got your guys out of Iraq – I don’t understand why he seems to inflame people so much. You know, unless, unless there’s a race problem. – Henry Rollins
After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies. – Howard Coble
There’s no recovery on Main Street, I can tell you that for sure. And in a re – in an economy like this, we don’t need to be raising anybody’s taxes. – Haley Barbour
One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites. – Hillary Clinton
When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody’s taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That’s how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody’s taxes. – Haley Barbour
If you raise taxes, it won’t reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources. – Grover Norquist
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. – H. L. Mencken
Social-enterprise employees earn wages and pay taxes, reducing their recidivism rates and dependence on government assistance. They also receive crucial on-the-job training, job-readiness skills, literacy instruction and, if necessary, the counseling and mental-health services they need to move into the mainstream workforce. – George R. Roberts
The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted. – George Sutherland
There’s no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower… The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low. – Grover Norquist
The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending. – Grover Norquist
In the middle of a recession, where we’re just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster. – Joe Biden
There is a way for the IRS to be able to have a double check to make sure individuals don’t file on your Social Security number early and try to get a tax return and make it chaotic for you to file your own taxes. That’s not been done. – James Lankford
Our economy grew at double the rate of the nation. We created 1.3 million jobs. We led the nation seven out of those eight years. We were only one of two states that went to AAA bond rating. I cut taxes, $19 billion. If you do that and apply conservative principles the right way, you create an environment where everybody rises up. – Jeb Bush
The ancient Greeks and Romans were comfortable with any number of deities and were quite open to allowing conquered nations to continue to worship in whatever ways they saw fit, as long as they didn’t mind having an emperor who required taxes and tributes. – Jay Parini
No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and since the Filipino is regarded as a fit citizen when he is asked to pay taxes or shed his blood to defend the fatherland, why must this fitness be denied him when the question arises of granting him some right? – Jose Rizal
Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all – to different degrees – unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual’s effort and reward for that effort. – Jack Kemp
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. – Jill Lepore
We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens’ taxes – that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America. – Iqbal Quadir
Many have criticized a federal carbon tax, saying that it would increase energy costs. Some continue to oppose it even when that revenue would be used to reduce other taxes in what’s known as a tax swap. – John Delaney
No matter what heights you achieve, even if you’re Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes. – James Caan
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. – John Maynard Keynes
We’ve created rules and taxes on top of every aspiration of people, and the net result is we’re not growing fast, income is not growing. – Jeb Bush
