I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that. – Jesse Ventura
Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires. – Jason Chaffetz
While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes. – Jason Chaffetz
I don’t feel that old, but when I talk to these kids, I do feel old. Because I’m talking about taxes and all this other stuff that is very, very boring. And these guys are talking about music, and I’m like, ‘Oh, I remember those days.’ – Jason Day
Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people’s tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me. – Jesse Ventura
We owe the government taxes. We owe our creditors interest. What do these powers owe us? – Anna Deavere Smith
My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don’t owe you a penny. – Cindy Sheehan
Between income taxes and employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes, we’re being taxed to death. – Chuck Norris
I’m not going to raise taxes; I’m not going to have a wage increase for public employees. – Andrew Cuomo
Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven’t been taxed before. – Art Buchwald
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin. – Austin O’Malley
Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least. – Adam McKay
There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains) and Bush the Elder. – Andrew Tobias
Contrary to the myth that Mr. Bush cut taxes only for the wealthy, the 2001 tax cut reduced taxes for every income-tax payer in the country. – Ari Fleischer
Obama not only falsely represented the Republican position – as usual – he shamelessly pretended that he was The One ‘fighting so hard to cut middle-class taxes.’ Baloney! – Bob Beauprez
Nine times out of ten, people consider a nice little Jewish boy the kid who grows up and sits behind a desk preparing your taxes. I’ve certainly broken that stereotype in many ways. – Bill Goldberg
I will cut taxes – cut taxes – for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class. – Barack Obama
When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals. – Bono
Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going. – Austan Goolsbee
I’m like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I’m very conservative and boring in a lot of ways. – Augusten Burroughs
We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality. – Arthur C. Brooks
My position has been consistent that middle class families should not pay more taxes. That hasn’t changed. – Brad Schneider