David Rubenstein Quotes

My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, it's only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other responsibilities, I get no change back from the first million dollars. The money flows out like water.

I pay about a third in taxes, I give away about a third, and I follow the law.

I've always been paying my taxes and I've always been trying to comply.

The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.

Corporations must pay tax.

I've been paying a lot of money in state income taxes, and I've been happy to do it, but when this last thing happened, this 50 percent increase in the tax rate, it was just too much.

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

I am obligated and I will pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to the American government. I already paid and I will keep paying whatever taxes I owe based on my time as a U.S. citizen.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

I think it's a little unfair for people to say you're not paying your fair share of taxes. I'm paying what I'm supposed to pay. Change the law, and I'll pay what I'm supposed to pay.

Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires.

That's the biggest problem, is the tax code itself.

'Simplifying' the tax code is a priority mainly for people who make enough money to want to avoid paying taxes, and who make their money by means unorthodox enough to make avoiding taxes possible and desirable.

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

Our tax system is based on individual self-assessment and voluntary compliance

Our 15 thousand page tax code is incomprehensible and unenforceable.

Tax reform laws … are like sand castles built next to the ocean. They get washed away.

Between income taxes and employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes, we're being taxed to death.

I just don't want to pay taxes.

The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

Who's on the case when it comes to the flat tax?

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