John Sherman Quotes

Taxes are never popular.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

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

That which angers men most, is to be taxed

There is another matter mentioned in your Majesty's letter, relating to money, which is of considerable importance, and that is the determination taken by your Majesty to subject your own provision to the proposed duty on income. When it was put to your Majesty Lord Melbourne is disposed to think that your Majesty's determination was right, and it certainly will be very popular, which in the present circumstances of the country and state of public feelings is a great advantage.

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

My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes that they should be paying higher taxes.

There is apparently nowhere a workable majority in the representative assemblies for making the specific cuts in expenditure which could bring down the taxes, and in election after election the people vote into power representatives who are as unable as they are unwilling to do anything about it.

There's no such thing as a good tax.

I'm from California, I know what's up with this. You keep raising people's taxes eventually they are going to say no.

High tax rates that people don't actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they do pay.

What does it mean when Republicans and Democrats alike warn us about the 'pain' involved in cutting government spending - in their spending less of our money? For the average citizen, what pain is there in his keeping more of his money to invest it the way he wants? Taxes cost people. Tax cuts do not cost government.

The message coming out of Washington, especially from our leftist politicians and the news media, is that we solve our budget problems by raising taxes on the rich. If Americans were more informed, such a message would be insulting to our intelligence. There are not enough rich people to satisfy Congress' appetite.

When you talk about the stimulus package, you can ask 1,000 different people and they - you will have 1,000 different opinions of what is the ideal stimulus package.

The estate tax has been a disaster. First of all it's double taxation, some people could even say it's triple taxation.

We're bringing the corporate rate down to 20 percent from 35 percent. That's a massive - this will be the biggest tax cut in history. In the history of our country. And that's great. And we need it. Because right now, our country's about the highest taxed or certainly one of the highest taxed in the world. And we can't have that. So we're going to have a country that's toward the lower end.

We have no plans to increase tax at all.

We will have a massive, massive tax increase under Hillary Clinton's plan.

The kind of plan that Donald [Tramp] has put forth would be trickle-down economics all over again. In fact, it would be the most extreme version, the biggest tax cuts for the top percent of the people in this country than we've ever had.

Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people. Sometimes people forget that that's really what occurs.

Democrats have always wanted to grow government with revenues from our society's producers. They aren't sincere about reducing the deficit, because they will not abandon their addiction to spending other people's money.

Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. Guess what? Yes we do.

Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away

Many of us were kind of irritated with Obama for larding it with tax cut, which we didn't think was going to be stimulative.