Tom Daschle Quotes

We now have so many regulations that everyone is guilty of some [tax] violation

Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law.

Bashing the Internal Revenue Service is popular ... An impotent agency would allow the would allow the dishonest to avoid paying what they owe, and encourage honest taxpayers to cut corners.

Something is terribly wrong with the tax laws of this country and the way they are enforced. So I quit.

Having businesses be tax collectors is riddled with peril.

Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes.

Fear is the key element for the IRS in achieving its mission. Without fear, the IRS would have a difficult time maintaining our so-called system of ‘voluntary compliance’ .... Given the opportunity, the IRS will take the easy way out and grab whatever it can... the IRS does not really care about you and what your future... may be

Our tax system is based on individual self-assessment and voluntary compliance

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

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.

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

The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax evasion.

Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it.

Everybody should pay taxes.

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

Confiscatory taxation enforced by threat of imprisonment is 'stealing,' a practice strongly frowned upon by our Creator.

If you buy something on the Internet, and they didn't collect tax, you're supposed to pay it - but nobody knows that. So there's trillions of dollars that were never collected.

I just don't want to pay taxes.

At tax time, people are going to say, 'Gee, if the IRS asks for documents from me, and I destroy them, I wouldn't get away with that.' But that's effectively what Commissioner Koskinen has been able to get away with.

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

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.

And it would be fair. Everyone will pay the same tax and it will eliminate tax cheaters and corporate shenanigans.

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

Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires.

That's the biggest problem, is the tax code itself.