taxes

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.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.

For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.

The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

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

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

I'm a conservative, pro-life governor in a state where it is really tough to be both. A state like New Jersey, with lots of Democrats, but still we cut taxes, we balanced budgets. We fought the teacher's union.

Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires.

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.

Death and taxes are inevitable.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.

In the country, especially, there are such a lot of entertaining things. I can walk over everybody's land, and look at everybody's view, and dabble in everybody's brook; and enjoy it just as much as though I owned the land--and with no taxes to pay!

Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em.