Kenneth Langone Quotes

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

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

I want to specify that I pay my own taxes in France, for all my income.

The A.M.T. is a parallel system for calculating tax liability intended to ensure that high-income taxpayers pay a substantial amount in federal tax even if they have large deductions or other items to offset income.

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 don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

I don't mind paying the taxes I pay, which is pretty considerable.

I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.

Corporations must pay tax.

A lot of people in the western world don't realize how much taxes limit their options. You can end up paying almost half your income in taxes, which basically means you're working for the government for 180 days a year. I think I can find better ways to use the money I make for the benefit of society.

I just don't want to pay taxes.

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.

Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.

I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia.

So I don't feel particularly wealthy-but, you know, I pay my taxes and I know that I am.

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.

We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.

If you are doing well, your business will pay more in tax; if you're not doing well, you pay less.

There are people who enjoy the life in England but don't pay a penny in tax, whereas my footballers pay more than half their income in tax.

When I started to pay income tax, I was 50 years old.

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.

There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!

A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax.

Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.

When the federal government promises no new taxes, they're promising no new federal taxes.