William Petty Quotes

People are taxed enough.

'Tax' is a bad word for politicians.

Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

Taxes are not trivial - they're a huge portion of this overall economy. And that's why I focused on them.

Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as much drama in it; moreover, it has been mellowed and made gay by as many gaudy, preposterous theories

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.

Tax policy is not about compassion.

It's not hard to cut taxes.

Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy.

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.

We had 90 percent taxes before in America. All right? Didn't work.

I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.

Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.

Today, and I'm very strongly against tax increases.

I think we're pretty much where we need to be on corporate taxes.

Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don't pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

I'm against tax increases on anyone, period, end of debate.

When we tax, we are dealing with fire, and without proper controls we can easily burn down everything we have built.

There never has been a new tax that met with public enthusiasm.

Rail against taxes of all kinds.

Taxes are always too high.

We should take a look at our tax system every 75 years or so.

Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.