I don’t understand the theory that nonprofit hospitals that run at forty percent capacity and do not pay taxes should be granted some special privilege. I like level playing fields. – Richard Rainwater
So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country. – Patrick J. Kennedy
You know what isn’t class warfare? Progressive taxation, as in, say, expecting billionaires to pay at least as much in taxes as their secretaries. Ideally, in fact, they should pay more. – Timothy Noah
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. – Steve Earle
Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders. – Thomas Sowell
A budget matters to Americans who can’t afford to see their taxes go up or lose the jobs that would be destroyed in the process. – Susan Brooks
If you are extremely well known and have a very desirable product, then yes, you probably do suffer a bit from piracy, in the same way that if you make a lot of money, you pay more in taxes than if you don’t make any money. – Tim O’Reilly
The cost of airline tickets will never be transparent as long as the Department of Transportation requires airlines to hide taxes, surcharges, and fees from consumers. – Tom Graves
Taxes should be simple and fair… I’m not for increasing income taxes – if we even have an income tax. – Virgil Goode
To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California – mightily. – Warren Beatty
President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in ’92 ran as an establishment moderate – same candidate, two very different campaigns. – Ted Cruz
Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party. – William Hague
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets. – Will Rogers
Coal research and development provides huge benefits for the nation, and pay for itself many times over through taxes flowing back to the Treasury from expanded economic activity. – Tim Holden
I’m not for a temporary war tax. We’re putting actual dollars in one way or the other, and so if we’re gonna look at taxes, we ought to look at a comprehensive tax reform policy. – Stephen Pagliuca
Any reductions we have in upper-income taxes will be offset by less deductions so that there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class. – Steve Mnuchin
The Dalmatian tribes and the Pannonians, at least of the region of the Save, for a short time obeyed the Roman governors; but they bore the new rule with an ever increasing grudge, above all on account of the taxes, to which they were unaccustomed, and which were relentlessly exacted. – Theodor Mommsen