Quotes About Paying Your Taxes

#1. My feeling is this whole country is founded on the principle of 'if you are not hurting anyone, and you're not fucking with someone else's shit, and you are paying your taxes, you should be able to just do what you want to do.' It's the freedom and the independence.

Adam Carolla

#2. Citizenship in the 21st century requires more than paying your taxes and voting and occasionally running for office. That even if you're never in political office, you have political responsibilities. You can make your society stronger and better.

William J. Clinton

#3. 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

#4. I think it's a little unfair for people to say you're not paying your fair share of taxes. I'm paying what I'm supposed to pay. Change the law, and I'll pay what I'm supposed to pay.

David Rubenstein

#5. People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes.

Richard Neal

#6. The problem with the economy isn't that people aren't paying their fair share of taxes.

Jon Lovitz

#7. I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country.

Dick Gregory

#8. President Obama has announced a task force to review the tax codes. He's concerned there are too many loopholes and too many people manipulating the system to avoid paying taxes. And that's just in his administration.

Jay Leno

#9. Worried about an IRS audit? Avoid what's called a red flag. That's something the IRS always looks for. For example, say you have some money left in your bank account after paying taxes. That's a red flag

Jay Leno

#10. Yes, the rich will find ways to avoid paying more taxes, courtesy of clever accountants and tax attorneys. But this has always been the case, regardless of where the tax rate is set.

Robert Reich

#11. Just enough to make up for all the fucking taxes the government took out of my regular paycheck. "Free" counseling. "Free" healthcare. "Free" employment services. "Free" food. There's no such thing as a free lunch. Keep that in mind. Somewhere, somehow, somebody is paying. For everything.

Ken Wheaton

#12. Short term, the most important thing is to put people back to work ... If they're working, that means they're paying taxes, that means that they're buying goods and services - and the economy, instead of being on a downward spiral, starts back up on an upward spiral.

Barack Obama

#13. 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

#14. It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

Lindsey Graham

#15. Historically, the best way to convert liberals is to have them move out of their parents' home, get a job, and start paying taxes.

Ann Coulter

#16. Of course, we all have to be taxed, but once you start to earn more than £150,000, and start paying 45 per cent tax, you are penalised. It is like a witch hunt.

Anthea Turner

#17. We need to simplify our tax code. We need to make sure that it's not too cumbersome for people to be able to comply with. And that they don't end up spending more money trying to file their taxes than they do actually paying in.

Kristi Noem

#18. Nobody has been arrested on Wall Street for the crash of 2008. They're not paying their fair share of the taxes. And now with the Citizens United case of the Supreme Court, they get to buy politicians up out in the open.

Michael Moore

#19. Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship.

Robert Reich

#20. Instead of talking about cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, we must end the absurdity of corporations not paying a nickel in federal income taxes.

Bernie Sanders

#21. I got tired of my taxes paying for exciting little wars around the world. Then I discovered that when I died, my wife would probably have to sell our house to pay for the taxes in America.

Terry Gilliam

#22. I currently live independently without any funded support. I'm educated, and I'm employed. I enjoy paying my taxes and contributing to the economic life of Australia.

Stella Young

#23. New rule: If churches don't have to pay taxes, they also can't call the fire department when they catch fire. Sorry reverend, that's one of those services that goes along with paying in. I'll use the fire department I pay for. You can pray for rain.

Bill Maher

#24. If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.

Mario Cuomo

#25. If you've been here 15 years and you've got three kids and grandkids and you've been paying taxes and obeying the law, you belong to a local church, I don't think we're going to separate you from your family, uproot you forcefully and kick you out.

Newt Gingrich

#26. People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.

Will Rogers

#27. Why is it fair that I should be paying a higher percentage of taxes than anyone else?

Sheldon Adelson

#28. My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes that they should be paying higher taxes.

Barack Obama

#29. He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.

Charles Dickens

#30. Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle - like getting to work on time or paying our taxes.

Dan Brown

#31. I've been paying a lot of money in state income taxes, and I've been happy to do it, but when this last thing happened, this 50 percent increase in the tax rate, it was just too much.

Tom Golisano

#32. There's almost no way of doing importing honestly, because if you do you're at such a disadvantage competitively. So people spend huge amounts of effort getting around stupid laws and not paying taxes.

Esther Dyson

#33. I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.

Bill Murray

#34. It's that time of year again, April 15, taxes. I know it's depressing, but just remember, you're paying for roads, bridges, hospitals, and an army to keep the nation free. Unfortunately that nation is Afghanistan.

Bill Maher

#35. Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.

Jennifer Dunn

#36. Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.

Curt Schilling

#37. One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.

Josh Mandel

#38. Even if you assume that the whole economy would work better had we never had double taxation, having the envy and resentment of the richest paying low or no taxes screams of injustice. You have to have a fair system.

Charlie Munger

#39. I believe a business can contribute to society by growing and making money and paying more taxes. That's how we contribute to society.

Anonymous

#40. Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.

Sarah Vowell

#41. As far as I'm concerned, the people who aren't paying taxes don't get to run around claiming that they built everything, that the built the roads and that they built the bridges and so forth.

Rush Limbaugh

#42. 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

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

Bill Bennett

#44. You can never really own real estate for instance; if you think you can, just try not paying your property taxes for a few years.

Michael Maloney

#45. I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them - not one - stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.

Elizabeth Warren

#46. The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business.

Austan Goolsbee

#47. 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

#48. 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