Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I just don't want to pay taxes.

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

Congress should know how to levy taxes, and if it doesn't know how to collect them, then a man is a fool to pay the taxes.

Paying taxes is a little coercive.

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.

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

Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.

Having businesses be tax collectors is riddled with peril.

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.

Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.

You don't pay taxes -- they take taxes.

Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Everybody should pay taxes.

We have to have an adequate number of taxes and an adequate amount of taxes.

I pay my taxes.

If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us?

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.

I think that taxes have to exist. They should exist at the lowest possible level, and to the extent that we can, we shouldn't invent more. Maybe that's my experience being mayor of New York City, where we had so many taxes.

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

We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.

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

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

It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.