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And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes. — George W. Bush

An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world. — Matt Taibbi

Nobody likes taxes. I would prefer that none of us had to pay taxes, including myself. — Barack Obama

I believe a business can contribute to society by growing and making money and paying more taxes. That's how we contribute to society. — Anonymous

It's tax season. When I woke this morning and realized it was tax season, I said, My God, didn't we just pay taxes last year? — David Letterman

It's a nice bonus but, you know, I have to pay taxes too. (after winning the Grand Slam Cup. — Venus Williams

Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good. — Camilla Lackberg

The government does not add value to the economy. It removes value from the economy by imposing taxes on one citizen and providing cash to another. — Mark Levin

Mates help each other; they do not tax each other. — Tony Abbott

Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government. — Tim Murphy

Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship. — Robert Reich

Nobody told me when I became a Democrat that that involved opposition to lower taxes. — Robert Torricelli

Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector — Frank Serpico

Interesting thing about being rich is once you pay your taxes, you're still rich. — Lewis Black

While death isn't a sure thing anymore, taxes still are. — Kevin J. Anderson

Another difference between death and taxes is that you don't have to work like fury to pay for the dying you did last year. — Robert Quillen

The only party which is going to increase taxes after the election is the Labor Party. — Tony Abbott

It's two days until tax time. I know it's late, but there is still time to deduct this show as a loss. — David Letterman

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes. — Dave Barry

God put the Republican Party on earth to cut taxes. If they don't do that, they have no useful function. — Robert Novak

Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim. — Clement Attlee

One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own. — Josh Mandel

Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world. — George Bernard Shaw

Whuppins were like kid taxes we paid with our behinds. — Terris McMahan Grimes

Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes. — Benjamin Franklin

Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. — David Dixon

I like the power given the Legislature to levy taxes, and for that reason solely approve of the greater house being chosen by the people directly. — Thomas Jefferson

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money. — Alain De Botton

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally. — Lindsey Graham

Wouldn't propose new taxes, but won't pledge against taxes. — Mike Huckabee

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. — Mark Twain

If it was true that lower taxes for the rich and more wealth to the wealthy leat to job creation, today we would be drowning in jobs. — Nick Hanauer

There's always hope."
"So? There's always taxes, too. It doesn't make any difference. — Terry Pratchett

You work for the bank. After taxes, your next largest expense is usually your mortgage and credit card debt. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

I love paying tax so much, the sight of a gritter lorry gives me an erection — Jon Richardson

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive. — Bill Gates

Federal government shutdowns are unsettling, because you realize how little you depend on it compared to the money you give in taxes. — Roosh V

The only certainties in life are death and taxes. — Mark Twain

Historically, the best way to convert liberals is to have them move out of their parents' home, get a job, and start paying taxes. — Ann Coulter

Capps earned over nine million last year and paid a pittance in taxes. — John Grisham

Och, here is the gauger newly from London, and we hae Clunes making couthy with him, nae respect fur the fact it's our labour going intae those taxes. — Anonymous

A flat tax is roughly the same as a sales tax. — Bob Frank

Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy. — Mitch McConnell

We need to make sure that people can save all the money they spend on medical care by getting it back from their taxes, by reducing their tax burden. — Ron Paul

As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn the money to pay them. — Calvin Coolidge

We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes. — Leona Helmsley

Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but death and taxes. — Christopher Bullock

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime. — Thomas Peterffy

The people starve because those in authority over them devour too many taxes; that is why they starve. — Lao-Tzu

If they'd lower the taxes and get rid of the smog and clean up the traffic mess, I really believe I'd settle here until the next earthquake. — Groucho Marx

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. — Benjamin Franklin

All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent. — Thomas Piketty

The Democrats believe that if God did not want them to raise taxes, He would not have created the Internal Revenue Service. — Dave Barry

By the way, when I say cut taxes, I don't mean fiddle with the code. I mean abolish the income tax and the IRS, and replace them with nothing. — Ron Paul

Anti-Tax fetishist Grover Norquist owns a bust of Ronald Reagan, who raised taxes 11 times. — John Fugelsang

But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes. — Dar Williams

No Taxes. Let's just tip the government 15% if they do a good job. — Pat Paulsen

My goal in getting rid of tax loopholes is not to raise taxes. Our problem in Washington, D.C. is not a revenue problem, it is a spending problem. — Mike Pompeo

A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes. — Kid Rock

If you're a social democrat, then you think it's cool to pay taxes. For me, tax is the finest expression for what politics really is. — Mona Sahlin

It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all. — Thomas Sowell

Multinationals don't pay taxes in Africa - we all know that. — Mo Ibrahim

I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes-I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em — Will Rogers

ESC had nothing to do with setting taxes or chasing down tax evaders - that was the World Government's job. — Eliza Green

Some things in life are certain; death, taxes, and that your family will piss you off. — Melanie Finn

We've already donated to Haiti. It's called the U.S. income tax. — Rush Limbaugh

Taxes are not raised to carry on wars, but that wars are raised to carry on taxes — Thomas Paine

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

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised. — Grover Norquist

Two things you need to know about taxes. They've extended the deadline to April 18, and when you write your check, just make it out to China. — David Letterman

A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species. — James Madison

Just taught my kids about taxes by eating 38% of their ice cream. — Conan O'Brien

National Democrats often try to pay for something with oil and gas taxes. — Mark Begich

Opposing taxes is a key conservative value. — Newt Gingrich

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them. — Margaret Mitchell

If New Mexican voters believe the path to create American jobs is keeping taxes low, then they have an option. That's my campaign. — Heather Wilson

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people. — James Monroe

The power to tax is the power to destroy. — John Marshall

Tax is not a four-letter word; rather, it's the price we pay for the country we want. — Alex Himelfarb

I don't like paying taxes, but I like sleeping at night. — Leonardo Del Vecchio

Most people sell stock to pay taxes, but I didn't want to sell any stock. — Christie Hefner

In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector. — Geoff Mulgan

As far as I can tell, there are three guarantees in life: death, taxes, and someone deciding they don't love you anymore. — Ryan O'Connell

I'm not for raising taxes on anyone - period. — Markwayne Mullin

What we don't need is more spending, and what we don't need are taxes, and what we do need is a lot less of both. — Ronald Reagan

People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth. — Will Rogers

The problem with being an employee or self-employed is you pay the highest taxes. — Robert Kiyosaki

I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes. — Robert Peel

I didn't pay my taxes for years. — Noam Chomsky

I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day. — Ronald Reagan

Would anyone remember the story of Godiva if she lowered Coventry's taxes without taking her clothes off? — Daniel Donoghue

All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree. — Alan Greenspan

I do not want to impose additional taxes on the employers at a time when our economy is very fragile and we want to encourage them to hire. — Susan Collins

Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty. — Piers Anthony

OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets. — Ambrose Bierce

He's spending a year dead for tax reasons. — Douglas Adams

Prosperity of the middling and lower orders depends upon the fortunes and light taxes of the rich. — Andrew Mellon

Going forward, my mind will be open to every solution - except one. We should not - we must not - and I will not - raise taxes. — Jim Doyle

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