Joe Eszterhas Quotes

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party.

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue.

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.

The Internal Revenue Service is more ruthless than the Gestapo. Abolish the IRS! Stamp out organized crime!

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised. Obama and the Democrats have a fight with the American people, not with me.

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.

Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already.

Time and again we have learned that the best way to achieve growth and create jobs is for hardworking people to keep more of their own money in their own pockets.

What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

To sell a new tax to the voters you have to be very specific about what it is being used for.

Whenever taxes become burdensome, a remedy can be applied by the people; but if they do not act for themselves, no one can be very successful in acting for them.

Washington Democrats see the IRS' overextended resources and automatically think the answer is to take and spend more of your tax dollars. I disagree.

I don't give my money to the government.

For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.

I say scrap the IRS. Let's start all over again.

The American people want more from government than they are willing to pay for in taxes.

It will be a sad day for the revenues if the good will of the people toward their taxing system is frittered away in efforts to accomplish by taxation moral reforms that cannot be accomplished by direct legislation.

If the tax was persisted in, the country would be forced into open rebellion.

All of my political career, I've fought for the taxpayers.

It doesn't cost money to let people keep more of their own money. It costs money to spend money you don't have, but that's another issue.

Maybe I should get back to the music-writing phase and write one on tax reform.

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

Taxes are never popular.

European pantywaists might keep voting for high-spending governments, but the U.S. was founded on a popular revolt against taxation.