Pay Taxes Quotes

#1. G.E. doesn't pay any taxes, and we are asking college kids to take on even more debt to get an education and asking seniors to get by on less. These aren't just economic questions. These are moral questions.

Elizabeth Warren

#2. If you're a social democrat, then you think it's cool to pay taxes. For me, tax is the finest expression for what politics really is.

Mona Sahlin

#3. Those who have safe and secure jobs pay more taxes than those who own the business that provides the jobs

Robert Kiyosaki

#4. It's tax season. When I woke this morning and realized it was tax season, I said, My God, didn't we just pay taxes last year?

David Letterman

#5. I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.

Arthur Godfrey

#6. I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would love to remind them how much they pay in federal taxes to support programs for Mississippi and South Dakota.

Gail Collins

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

Chris Rock

#8. We have to say to the billionaire class, enough is enough. You cannot have it all. You are going to pay more in taxes.

Bernie Sanders

#9. The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes

Tacitus

#10. As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Nevada.

Kenny Guinn

#11. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness ... but only when you pay your taxes? That means your freedom is rented, leased, & not unalienable.

Steve Maraboli

#12. New taxes are so unpopular that most 'social' handout schemes are originally enacted without enough increased taxation to pay for them. The result is chronic government deficits, paid for by the issuance of additional paper money.

Henry Hazlitt

#13. In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.

P. J. O'Rourke

#14. Everything we do is escapism, because we'll all be dead and everything we do is completely meaningless. Why brush your teeth? Why not be in the park with the bums passing a short dog? Why pay taxes, why get educated? Of course literature is an escape. You have to fill the hours.

T.C. Boyle

#15. You can't judge a book by its cover, though. People think I'm bad because I got tattoos or snort a little cocaine here and there. They think I'm a killer. But what if I wasn't a killer? Then what? Don't be tripping on me. I pay my damn taxes, OK? Chill.

Gunplay

#16. I think if I were a superhero saving the world, I'd expect at least not to have to pay income taxes. I mean there should be something in it for a hero who risks his life to save mankind every day.

Stan Lee

#17. There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

Robert A. Heinlein

#18. A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes.

Kid Rock

#19. I think that my foundation uses the money better than the government does. In any event, I do pay taxes.

George Soros

#20. Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.

Romano Prodi

#21. There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.

Isabel Paterson

#22. If the Lord had meant us to pay income taxes, he'd have made us smart enough to prepare the return.

Kirk Kirkpatrick

#23. Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.

Deepak Chopra

#24. Death can only be profitable: there's no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous.

Anton Chekhov

#25. That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.

Payne Stewart

#26. Advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable.

Robert Stephens

#27. If you don't pay your taxes and you don't answer the warrant and you don't go to court, eventually someone will pull a gun. Eventually someone with a gun will show up. I want everything the government does to be done, I just want it to be done voluntarily.

Penn Jillette

#28. 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.

Ben Stein

#29. Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?

Bill Veeck

#30. All Democrats for the last 30 years have tried to stimulate the economy by giving 'tax cuts' to people who don't pay taxes.

Ann Coulter

#31. Make sure you pay your taxes; otherwise you can get in a lot of trouble.

Richard M. Nixon

#32. We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.

Leona Helmsley

#33. For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.

David Broder

#34. Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn't pay taxes.

Adam Carolla

#35. Everyone wants the rich to pay more in taxes.

Michael Arrington

#36. During the socialist period, the government became too big. That created a crowding-out effect in the private economy, and it gave everybody the need to pay more taxes in order to finance this big government. We are against big government. We want a smaller and more efficient government.

Antonis Samaras

#37. If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.

Kevin O'Leary

#38. The real problem with the IRS is that they let General Electric not pay any taxes
and 50 other corporations
that's the real scandal

Michael Moore

#39. Interesting thing about being rich is once you pay your taxes, you're still rich.

Lewis Black

#40. I pay taxes in three countries, but can't vote in any of them.

Eric Idle

#41. People making $1 million a year are not going to do anything different if they pay more taxes.

Kenneth Langone

#42. The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.

Peter De Vries

#43. No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil

Calvin Coolidge

#44. I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#45. "I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

Robert Menzies

#46. Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own.

Nancy Gibbs

#47. If we do nothing, we are handing our children a ticking time bomb that will require they pay ever greater payroll taxes just as they are beginning their careers, starting their own families and staking their claim to the American Dream.

John McCain

#48. Gold belongs only in the portfolios of fearmongers and speculators. If you own gold in your portfolio, expect to not get paid an income, pay higher taxes on your returns, take a more volatile ride than the stock market, and get a long-term return lower than bonds.

Peter Mallouk

#49. It's a nice bonus but, you know, I have to pay taxes too. (after winning the Grand Slam Cup.

Venus Williams

#50. People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

Robert Half

#51. Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes, every tax when they make a purchase.

Luis Gutierrez

#52. I refuse to believe that the only reason we are here is to pay taxes and die.

Seth Adam Smith

#53. After ensuring border security, I then would normalize the status of 11 million undocumented citizens so they can join the work force and pay taxes ... I would normalize them at a rate of about two million per year.

Rand Paul

#54. [Fiscal prudence] means spending wisely, reducing waste, collecting sufficient taxes to pay for the public goods and services we want, keeping budgets in relative balance over time, and keeping debt coming down, at least during reasonably good times.

Alex Himelfarb

#55. A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.

Ann Landers

#56. Bush has legitimized a huge expansion of the welfare state, liberalizing immigration, and using force for democratization abroad. All the next Democratic president has to do to finish Bush's hard work is to raise taxes to pay for it all.

Andrew Sullivan

#57. Interest groups are not the same as individuals. Through false nostalgia for the New Deal, you are taking the younger generation hostage. They are the ones who are going to have to pay far greater taxes. They are the future's forgotten men.

Amity Shlaes

#58. The right seeks release from liberal notions of what they should feel--happy for the gay newlywed, sad at the plight of the Syrian refugee, resentful to pay taxes. The left sees prejudice.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

#59. The problem with being an employee or self-employed is you pay the highest taxes.

Robert Kiyosaki

#60. If every rich person gave 50 percent of their wealth to charity, I would not say they should pay more taxes.

George Soros

#61. My position has been consistent that middle class families should not pay more taxes. That hasn't changed.

Brad Schneider

#62. It's a privilege to pay taxes. Yeah! It's not a political question, folks. We have to pay for stuff.

Lewis Black

#63. The moral of the story of the Pilgrims is that if you work hard all your life and behave yourself every minute and take no time out for fun you will break practically even, if you can borrow enough money to pay your taxes.

Will Cuppy

#64. People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes.

Mian Muhammad Mansha

#65. To defer anything to the Greek Calends is to defer it sine die. There were no calends in the Greek months. The Romans used to pay rents, taxes, bills, etc., on the calends, and to defer paying them to the "Greek Calends" was virtually to repudiate them. (See NEVER.)

E. Cobham Brewer

#66. I don't mind paying the taxes I pay, which is pretty considerable.

Bill Bennett

#67. Restoring accountability will be one of the major priorities of our new government. Accountability is what ordinary Canadians, working Canadians, those people who pay their bills, pay their taxes, expect from their political leaders.

Stephen Harper

#68. Did you know I never paid taxes before I came here? The Edema don't own property, as a rule." He gestured at the inn. "I never understood how galling it was. Some smug bastard with a ledger comes into town, makes you pay for the privilege of owning something.

Patrick Rothfuss

#69. Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay

Milton Friedman

#70. When you're undocumented, you're supposed to keep your head down and be quiet and pay taxes, social security - even though people don't know that we do those things - and not say anything.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#71. My purpose in life always has been to avoid work. And I hear these people saying, "I work hard and I pay my taxes." Well, you're an asshole.

Malachy McCourt

#72. Yes I pay taxes ... There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man with the gun, not the man in the crosshairs trying to survive.

Stefan Molyneux

#73. If there are healthy - and growing - numbers of people working and paying taxes, we are better able to pay the costs of people living longer.

Nicola Sturgeon

#74. Most people in America understand that the rich people hire good accountants and figure out how not to necessarily pay all the taxes that they should be paying.

George W. Bush

#75. If you have a 50 percent match and you get in trouble financially, you can either withdraw money as a loan, or withdraw the 50 percent match. If you take it out, you have to pay taxes on it, but you still come out ahead.

Suze Orman

#76. I want to throw up because we're supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support our own slow murder and I'm amazed we're not running amok in the streets, and that we can still be capable of gestures of loving after lifetimes of all this.

David Wojnarowicz

#77. I don't see why a man shouldn't pay an inheritance tax. If a Country is good enough to pay taxes to while you are living, it's good enough to pay in after you die. By the time you die you should be so used to paying taxes that it would just be almost second nature to you.

Will Rogers

#78. Another agency - the IRS - did not do as well under Republicans who control Congress. The IRS is largely flatlined in their spending, but they did get about 300 million more funding. But I can only be used to help people pay their taxes and answer questions. It can't be used for any other purpose.

Susan Davis

#79. Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#80. They say that nothing is certain but death and taxes, and I already screwed one of those up, so I better pay my taxes....

Edmund Alexander Sims

#81. because it's easier to pay our taxes than to risk our livelihoods by trying to change the system.

Linda Nagata

#82. I pay my taxes, but I've never voted and I never will vote as long as the system works the way it does. Even when Obama was running, I wanted to see a woman run! I'd rather see a woman in the White House as opposed to Obama.

Lupe Fiasco

#83. Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is a feast of rent-seeking - a cornucopia of credits, exemptions and other subsidies conferred by the political class on favored, and grateful, corporations.

George Will

#84. If they are too quarrelsome to unite against him, and so violent that they'll willingly pay his taxes to be protected from one another, they have no reason to complain.

Gene Wolfe

#85. Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.

Adam Carolla

#86. Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

Thomas Sowell

#87. If you are extremely well known and have a very desirable product, then yes, you probably do suffer a bit from piracy, in the same way that if you make a lot of money, you pay more in taxes than if you don't make any money.

Tim O'Reilly

#88. They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I've done it, and there's consequences, but it can be done. Death you're not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it.

Steve Earle

#89. A survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes. So that's why we can't get anything done in the morning: We're government workers.

Jay Leno

#90. Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. But do you want your kids to get a good education? You have to pay for that. Do you want Medicare for senior citizens? I do. We have to pay for it.

Shelley Berkley

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

Ray Dalio

#92. In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.

Fareed Zakaria

#93. I'm careful to pay every single penny on my taxes. I don't have any money offshore.

Jerry Della Femina

#94. Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.

George Papandreou

#95. I think the rich should pay more in taxes - I agree with that 100 percent - but everybody should feel the pain a little bit.

John Catsimatidis

#96. You've seen my statements; I do very well. I don't mind paying some taxes. The middle class is getting clobbered in this country. You know the middle class built this country, not the hedge fund guys, but I know people in hedge funds that pay almost nothing, and it's ridiculous, OK?

Donald Trump

#97. But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.

Dar Williams

#98. I don't understand the theory that nonprofit hospitals that run at forty percent capacity and do not pay taxes should be granted some special privilege. I like level playing fields.

Richard Rainwater

#99. 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

#100. We are not subjects of an autocratic King, but are citizens of the country contributing to the advancement of our people who pay taxes out of their hard earned income.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa