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

Whatever you tax, you get less of.
Alan Greenspan

That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.
Bud Abbott

When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.
Ron Paul

Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.
Ron Paul

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
Robert A. Heinlein

Our current tax system is broken.
Dick Armey

We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels.
Dick Armey

I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?
Milton Berle

The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.
Barney Frank

Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
Hillary Clinton

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
Thomas Sowell

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
Douglas Adams

The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself.
Carter G. Woodson

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
Barry Goldwater

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
Barry Goldwater

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Edmund Burke

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.
Noel Coward

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
Benjamin Disraeli

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.
Bill Vaughan