Jamie Dimon Quotes

I want to feel good about paying taxes.

The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.

We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.

It's a privilege to pay taxes. Yeah! It's not a political question, folks. We have to pay for stuff.

I don't like paying taxes, but I like sleeping at night.

No sane person enjoys paying tax... money, after all, is a very nice thing to have. But it's the price we all pay for so many vital things in this country - and those of us lucky enough to have a bit more should be proud to be paying a little bit more as well.

Of course kids should pay taxes.Tell littlie johnny if he wants to ride his bicycle on the sidewalk instead of in the mud,he's got to pay3 more pennies when he buys a candy bar.

Rich people who own mansions on the beach shouldn't get federal subsidies. If you want to stay there, take the risk.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

At the end of the day, philanthropy can only ever be an adjunct to what governments provide. And government coffers need to be replenished.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.

We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around.

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

People think of taxes as money just being robbed from you. They don't consider the benefits of paying taxes. The benefits that they get and also the benefit of just being a part of a large group of people: a town, or a city, or a country, or a society that allegedly should stand together and all try to help each other.

We live in a prosperous country. And our prosperity is not only a blessing—it’s also an obligation.

Very few governments have the money to meet the needs of their people….The private sector has most of the resources.

Governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit every one who enjoys his share of the protection should pay out of his estate his proportion for the maintenance of it.

The citizen cannot refuse to pay the taxes imposed on him … But the same person nevertheless does not act contrary to his duty as a citizen, when, as a scholar, he publicly expresses his thoughts on the inappropriateness or even the injustices of these levies

You can’t have the goods and services and the benefits of a government if you’re not willing to pay taxes …. I am proud of the fact that I can pay $33 million of taxes. I put out a press release when I did that.

If you are a Social Democrat, then you think it's cool to pay taxes. For me, taxation is the finest expression for what politics really is.

Human laws are entirely destitute of the sanction of rewards. To confer honors for obedience would be as ridiculous as unavailing. The honor of many would resolve itself into the honor of none. To dispense pecuniary rewards would be nugatory or impracticable. In an unqualified extent, no government would be able to supply the funds; and even in a restricted form, its operation would be to receive money with one hand as a premium, and to pay it back with the other in the shape of a tax.

We want public services but we do not want to pay for them

Get people to think about the benefits of government rather than taxes.

You have got to be willing to pay for the government you want.