Taxes Quotes - Page 5

Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes.

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.

[T]hese tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans are also the tax cuts that are least likely to promote growth.

A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.

When I bought out my first autobiography I received the biggest tax bill of my life.

Why is it fair that I should be paying a higher percentage of taxes than anyone else?

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.

Stop policing the world and we can get rid of income tax.

We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise taxes; we came back in '05, and we had an $8 billion surplus. That's how fast it can happen.

Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.

The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.

Every advantage has its tax.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!

So, for instance, let me make this clear: You know I signed a statement. I will not raise taxes on anybody. I don't want to raise taxes on the American people.

If you're a wealthy heir with a trust fund, and you sell stocks, make your 10% gains since Donald Trump, and then you buy other stocks, you can avoid paying taxes. And if your accountant registers your wealth offshore in a Panamanian fund, like Russian kleptocrats do - and as more and more Americans do - you don't have to pay any tax at all, because it's not American income, it's foreign income in an enclave without an income tax.

I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it.

Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.

Taxes are the sinews of the state.

Higher energy prices act like a tax.

The American colonies, all know, were greatly opposed to taxation without representation. They were also, a less celebrated quality, equally opposed to taxation with representation.

Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.

The more money that you have, the easier it becomes to hide that and avoid taxes.

I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.