Quotes about taxes

How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?

Will Rogers

I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.

Mark Twain

I won’t talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I’m glad I’m out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.

Richard Pryor

I pay about a third in taxes, I give away about a third, and I follow the law.

Ray Dalio

While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don’t. I find it patriotic.

Mark Cuban

What we don’t need is more spending, and what we don’t need are taxes, and what we do need is a lot less of both.

Ronald Reagan

Wealthy people get special insider deals, and if you and I lived in a country where the tax system was so blatantly illegitimate-where nothing seemed fair, and where our voices weren’t heard, and where the rules changed from one day to the next-we wouldn’t pay our taxes either.

Malcolm Gladwell

Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.

Robert A. Heinlein

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

Barack Obama

I’ve been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.

James Brown