Government Revenue Quotes

Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes.

Estate taxes are the government's way of making up for all the cheating you did on income taxes

Taxes are what pays for a civilized society.

Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.

The power to tax is not the power to destroy.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.

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.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

I believe that hardworking people should retain as much of the money as they can in terms of the taxes that they pay. But I think everybody should pay their taxes.

It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus.

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

A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.

If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.

I'm a conservative and I believe if you tax something more you get less of it.

The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.

In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear.

It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.

We sincerely believed that we don't tax too little in Washington. We spend too much.

If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources.

It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation, he will be arrested or shot if he should continue to resist.

Few things in life are certain except death and being taxed.

That's the biggest problem, is the tax code itself.

You have to be taxed. Just because you work a little harder to have a little bit more money taken from you, I mean, that's scary. I worked hard for it. Why should I be taxed more than other people?

Government has no resources of its own. Government can only give to us what it has previously taken from us.