William Petty Quotes

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.

Rail against taxes of all kinds.

One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.

I just don't want to pay taxes.

I don't want to increase taxes, I just want taxes to be paid honestly.

People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes.

American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.

Wealthy people don't even pay taxes. But everybody must pay taxes.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.

Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.

Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.

Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem.

We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.

Tax should be the same for everybody.

I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.

Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.

The problem with the economy isn't that people aren't paying their fair share of taxes.

The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.

You've seen my statements; I do very well. I don't mind paying some taxes. The middle class is getting clobbered in this country. You know the middle class built this country, not the hedge fund guys, but I know people in hedge funds that pay almost nothing, and it's ridiculous, OK?

Having businesses be tax collectors is riddled with peril.

There never has been a new tax that met with public enthusiasm.

[Describing out tax system:] ... a disgrace to the human race.