Deborah Meaden Quotes

We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.

We may pay high taxes but if it means that many hard working people have better lives, I am glad to do so.

But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.

In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.

That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.

A lot of people are happy to give money to charities but are wary of giving through taxes because they feel it doesn't produce any value.

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

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.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

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.

You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.

Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.

I want to pay taxes. I love this country.

When the income tax was passed, that provided a virtual unlimited supply of money for government.

I’m not looking for opportunity to pay more taxes. But I do support progressive tax structure. If society has been exceptionally good to you, then it’s incumbent on you to make a larger contribution to the welfare of society.

The Government cannot afford to have a country made up entirely of rich people, because rich people pay so little tax that the Government would quickly go bankrupt… Government needs labor to pay its upkeep.

Everybody should pay taxes.

I'm happy to pay my fair share - which is whatever the tax is right now.

I want to feel good about paying taxes.

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.

I want paying taxes to feel like the accomplishment of a civic duty.

More taxes mean more money to spend for public welfare.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

When any welfare scheme is being proposed, its political sponsors always dwell on what a generous and compassionate government should pay to Paul; they neglect to mention that this additional money must be seized from Peter.