Top 100 Quotes About Income Tax
#1. Teddy Roosevelt supported a progressive income tax. If I am sitting pretty and you've got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can't, what's the big deal for me to say, 'I'm going to pay a little bit more'? That is neighborliness.
Barack Obama
#2. I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.
Harry Browne
#3. The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate
Isaac Asimov
#4. Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.
Mike Pence
#5. The truth is, our corporate income taxes are some of the highest in the world, and frankly, in my judgment it's unpatriotic if you're not for reducing the corporate income tax. We want to make it so American companies are on a more level playing field competing with companies around the world.
Jim Jordan
#6. The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
Arthur C. Clarke
#7. A lot of girls annoy me who go to university - one girl told me she was going to Oxford because it was something to do between leaving school and getting married. And I've got to pay for that being an income tax payer.
Jeffrey Bernard
#8. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
Karl Marx
#9. There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income.
Will Rogers
#10. The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
Barry Goldwater
#11. Stop policing the world and we can get rid of income tax.
Ron Paul
#12. The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution.
G. Edward Griffin
#13. All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says.
Walter Wriston
#14. I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.
Pete Seeger
#15. When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
Plato
#16. The corporate income tax, in particular, is a tax that puts American corporations at a disadvantage.
Ken Buck
#17. One has to try to develop one's inner feelings, which can be done simply by training one's mind. This is a priceless human asset and one you don't have to pay income tax on!
Dalai Lama
#18. Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.
William L. Jenkins
#19. I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax.
Michael Moore
#20. Just as no one is morally required to answer a robber truthfully when he asks if there are any valuables in one's house, so no one can be morally required to answer truthfully similar questions asked by the State, e.g., when filling out income tax returns.
Murray Rothbard
#21. The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
Will Rogers
#22. (which did not exist before the creation of the income tax in 1913)
Thomas Piketty
#24. And what's interesting, and I don't think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that, one, most new jobs are created by small businesses; two, most small businesses pay tax at the individual income tax, or many small businesses pay tax there.
George W. Bush
#25. Rich people are so eccentric, and I don't think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living like rappers, and there was no income tax. They are some of the most fascinating people, and I am endlessly fascinated.
Riki Lindhome
#26. The same computers that make it impossible for you to cheat on your income tax can ensure that the blood of your group is in the ambulance that picks you up from a car smash.
John Brunner
#27. Everyone else is parsing it in terms of lowering the corporate income tax. Eliminate it. It's not that big of a generator of income, and it's a double tax. Get rid of it, and you would have an explosion of hiring.
Gary Johnson
#28. Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits.
Bernie Sanders
#29. We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes in strange ways sex crimes, black masses.
Terence Fisher
#30. It's income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and stab yourself in the aorta
Dave Barry
#31. There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!
Nat King Cole
#32. For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don't have to pay income tax that day because they're not working.
Jesse Ventura
#33. The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading grievance holds that the 16th Amendment, which authorizes the federal income tax, was ratified through fraud.
Barton Gellman
#34. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Albert Einstein
#35. You can't legitimately kick on income tax, for it's on what you have made. You have already made it. But, look at land, farms, homes, stores, vacant lots. You pay year after year on them whether you make it or not.
Will Rogers
#36. Long time ago when we were fab, back when income tax was all we had.
George Harrison
#37. The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds & because it tends to public economy.
William E. Gladstone
#38. Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive.
Paul Ryan
#39. You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.
David Rockefeller
#40. We've already donated to Haiti. It's called the U.S. income tax.
Rush Limbaugh
#41. We should be forced to give so many exemptions and concessions (inevitably to the benefit of high spending authorities in Inner London) that the flat-rate poll tax would rapidly become a surrogate income tax.
Nigel Lawson
#42. Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.
Mike Royko
#43. I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#44. The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.
Alan Keyes
#45. Don't tax my income, tax my consumption.
Bill Gates
#46. 1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
Ron Paul
#47. I got five kids - I claim three for income tax purposes.
Tracy Morgan
#48. Income tax filing and payment day should be moved from April 15th to November 1st so it can be close to election day. People ought to have their tax bills fresh in mind as they go to vote.
Steven G. Calabresi
#49. The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government.
Mark Skousen
#50. In 2010 the U.S. will have a payroll tax rate increase, an estate tax increase, and income tax increases. There's also a tax increase coming in 2010 on carried interest. This rate will rise from its current level of 15 percent to 35 percent, and then it will rise again in 2011.
Arthur Laffer
#51. Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
Karl Lagerfeld
#52. On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.
Tom Lehrer
#53. We should try to ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to find a great life. It's a quest that will require political will and ingenious policies. President Obama's proposed expansion of the earned-income tax credit goes in this direction, but we need more.
Sendhil Mullainathan
#54. Tax expenditures for middle- and working-class Americans - like the earned income tax credit - aren't thought of as loopholes; they're just thought of as benefits.
Alex Pareene
#55. Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.
Will Rogers
#56. High taxation was not regarded in these years as an affront. On the contrary, steep rates of progressive income tax were seen as a consensual device to take excess resources away from the privileged
Tony Judt
#57. By the year 1982 the graduated income tax will have practically
abolished major differences in wealth.
Irwin Edman
#58. The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert Einstein
#59. The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
Will Rogers
#60. Few Americans realize it, but the United Nations is driving to take control over the Internet. You remember, the folks who want a worldwide income tax and who put Syria and Iran on their Human Rights Committee.
Arthur L. Herman
#61. High tax rates distort economic decision making, and our corporate income tax rate is one of the highest in the world.
Jason Chaffetz
#62. A homeless man once told me that dancing to rap music is the cultural equivalent of masturbating, and I'd sort of fell the same way about playing John Madden Football immediately after filing my income tax: It's fun, but - somehow - vaguely pathetic.
Chuck Klosterman
#63. I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?
Milton Berle
#64. We will attract more people to Kentucky by lowering our income tax rate. In fact, lowering the income tax rate is the single most important thing we can do to create opportunity.
Ernie Fletcher
#65. It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.
Robert W. Welch Jr.
#66. If people give up their attachment to expansive government, they will feel free to fight the income tax.
Sheldon Richman
#67. The zero-income-tax-rate states have far faster growth in tax revenues than did the states with highest income tax rate over the same period.
Arthur Laffer
#68. The high income tax come pretty near passing in the Senate. Only lacked about six votes. So it won't be long now. Well, there is millions and millions that are not making it, that would be glad to give up 99 per cent if you would let 'em earn a hundred thousand or more.
Will Rogers
#69. Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They 'want' that. And it's good policy.
Gail Collins
#70. I still believe a majority of Republicans are for income tax cuts.
Mary Fallin
#71. We ought to thank President Bush. He made it a lot easier for people to do taxes this year. No job, no income tax this year.
Jay Leno
#72. China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.
Zhou Enlai
#73. In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible to have a relatively free and peaceful country. No income tax, no foreign wars, no welfare state, no intrusions on civil liberties.
Harry Browne
#74. All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent.
Thomas Piketty
#75. I can't micromanage what anybody pays or doesn't pay. But the concept that half of the public isn't involved with the income-tax system is somewhat odd and I'm not saying how much people should do, but we should all be part of the system.
Stephen A. Schwarzman
#76. Dora was having trouble with her income tax, for she was entangled in that curious enigma which said the business was illegal and then taxed her for it.
John Steinbeck
#77. 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
#78. [High income tax rates] not only check consumption but discourage investment and encourage ... the avoidance of taxes [rather] than the production of goods.[ ... ]Our present tax system ... reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking.
John F. Kennedy
#79. The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.
Thomas Dewar
#80. I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. I don't think the evidence supports that.
Austan Goolsbee
#81. In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federal income tax return. This includes individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations.
Virgil Goode
#82. Most of them benefit businesses, things like research and development tax credits. But people will also benefit, too, from things like - the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit have been made permanent. They predominantly help lower-income families.
Susan Davis
#83. We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.
Joe Scarborough
#84. What you do by having an income tax rate reduction across the board, you really provide great incentives for people to work, produce, and increase output. So I would support a carbon tax in replacement for a progressive income tax.
Arthur Laffer
#85. No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.
Joe Biden
#86. I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.
Corita Kent
#87. [S]tatism is but socialized dishonesty; it is feathering the nests of some with feathers coercively plucked from others - on the grand scale. There is no moral difference between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax or any other social program.
Leonard Read
#88. I know everybody's income and what everybody earns,
And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns
W.S. Gilbert
#89. I was shocked to see that some of the very wealthiest people in the country have organised their tax affairs, and to be fair it's within the tax laws, so that they were regularly paying virtually no income tax. And I don't think that's right.
George Osborne
#90. An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.
Fred Allen
#91. Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.
William Weld
#92. Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.
Gary Johnson
#93. How can Americans living in the freest country in the world be 'slaves'? We don't even enjoy the liberty of serfs. ( A serf paid only 25% of his earnings to his feudal lord. How much income tax do you pay?) Don't kid yourselves, we're slaves. Slaves with weekends off.
Kenneth W. Royce
#94. We vetoed five income tax increases during my time as governor. We cut business taxes $2.3 billion, and we cut regulation by one-third of what my predecessor put in place.
Chris Christie
#95. In the first place, just as income tax returns allow us to study changes in income inequality, estate tax returns enable us to study changes in the inequality of wealth.
Thomas Piketty
#96. There wasn't any Republicans in Washington's day. No Republicans, no Boll Weevil, no income tax, no cover charge, no disarmament conference, no luncheon clubs, no stop lights, no static, no head winds. My Lord, living in those days, who wouldn't be great?
Will Rogers
#97. I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year.
Carly Fiorina
#98. Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.
John Cornyn
#99. According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.
Bob Riley
#100. No matter what federal program one selects - Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the drug war, the income tax and the IRS, education, foreign interventions and wars - they are all a giant mess.
Jacob G. Hornberger
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