Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

The easy way out is to increase taxes.

The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary.

Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.

No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.

You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.

Whether it's a penalty or a tax, it's all one in the same. It's coming out of somebody's hard-earned money in their pocketbooks and that's the point. So in some ways, to me, it's a distinction without a difference.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

It's a lethal thing to suddenly raise taxes.

We had 90 percent taxes before in America. All right? Didn't work.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.

All taxes must, at last, fall upon agriculture.

The only ill-treated groups in Canada I can see these days are hard-working Canadians of every socio-economic class who fork over a lot of their money to the Government.

People don’t want Washington to grow faster than their ability to pay for it.

Raising taxes kills conservatives.

By the imposition of a variety of taxes, imposts, stamps, excises and other duties ...[would] squeeze from them [the citizens] the little money they may acquire ...

Taxes are not trivial - they're a huge portion of this overall economy. And that's why I focused on them.

Taxes are never popular.

That darn luxury tax is pretty painful.

Taxes are just too high - that's obviously a priority.

Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.

In reality, every time the government takes an additional dollar in taxes out of someone's pocket, it's a dollar that person will not be able to spend or invest. When government spending goes up, private spending goes down. There is no net effect. No wealth creation.

You compare the nation to a parched piece of land and the tax to a life-giving rain. So be it. But you should also ask yourself where this rain comes from, and whether it is not precisely the tax that draws the moisture from the soil and dries it up. You should also ask yourself further whether the soil receives more of this precious water from the rain than it loses by the evaporation?