Mark Twain Quotes

Here's a brave old reality, taxes don't go away; raising them never generates revenue, never ever ever.

The progressive feature of the income tax is the most dangerous element of democracy.

The power to tax is the power to govern.

The power to tax is not the power to destroy.

I'm in favor of doing tax reform, but I think tax reform ought to be revenue neutral as it was back during the [Ronald] Reagan years. We've resolved this issue.

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

You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.

There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income.

No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.

The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds and because it tends to public economy.

Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo.

It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

Let me tell you, that's what taxation is - it's confiscation. It's your money, it's not the government's money. But the government makes you think that it all comes from them.

You should get to keep every dollar that you earn. That's your money. That's not the government's money.

Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.

Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money taxes, levied on land and otherwise, which are collected by government from the subjects.

Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not a mode of taxation. It is rather a mode of disguised expropriation of the successful capitalists and entrepreneurs.

The only issue on taxes - Hillary Clinton is going to raise taxes, and Donald Trump and I are going to cut them.

A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

Income tax in particular in the United States is concentrated on the top half of the income distribution, and very heavily skewed towards the top 10 or even top 1 percent.

Taxes are the sinews of the state.

In reality, finding a way to raise taxes may well be the central political problem facing the United States.

There's no such thing as a good tax.

People who earn reasonable amounts are being turned into the anti-Christ. I think 45 per cent tax is a colossal amount to take off somebody, and it is taking away the incentive to earn.

HALF of America pays NO taxes. Zero. So they're happy for tax rates to be raised on the other half that DOES pay any taxes.