Fiscal Duty Quotes

I do think corporations should pay their tax.

As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, my first responsibility is to the taxpayer.

I fully believe that the U.S. has the obligation to honor its debt.

We hear with sorrow, by the report of the Provincial judges, that you the Fathers of the State, who ought to set an example to your sons (the ordinary citizens), have been so remiss in the payment of taxes that on this first collection nothing, or next to nothing, has been brought in from any Senatorial house. Thus a crushing weight has fallen on the lower orders, who have had to make good your deficiencies and have been distraught by the violence of the tax gatherers …. Now then, oh Conscript Fathers, who owe as much duty to the Republic as we do, pay the taxes for which each of you is liable.

I want to specify that I pay my own taxes in France, for all my income.

When everybody is supposed to pay, nobody seems to get the bill.

We represent the people's money, and we have to be good stewards of that.

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

I want paying taxes to feel like the accomplishment of a civic duty.

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

As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn the money to pay them.

I firmly believe that if members of Congress fail to perform their most basic duty in passing a budget, then they do not deserve to be paid.

You want the guy driving a truck and the elderly to pay your share. You just want to pay zero taxes. Tell us right now what taxes are you are willing to pay.