Paying Taxes Quotes

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

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

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.

My second biggest mistake in life, for which I have no one to blame but myself, is having accepted payments in cash from Karlheinz Schreiber for a mandate he gave me after I left office... My biggest mistake in life, by far, was ever agreeing to be introduced to Karlheinz Schreiber in the first place.

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.

I don't like paying taxes, but I like sleeping at night.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

If you're a wealthy heir with a trust fund, and you sell stocks, make your 10% gains since Donald Trump, and then you buy other stocks, you can avoid paying taxes. And if your accountant registers your wealth offshore in a Panamanian fund, like Russian kleptocrats do - and as more and more Americans do - you don't have to pay any tax at all, because it's not American income, it's foreign income in an enclave without an income tax.

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.

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

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.

Tax is a big expense. And I wouldn't mind paying taxes a lot less if our politicians knew how to spend the money, but they don't. They waste the money.

With these 11 million people here illegally, let's have them registered, know who they are, those that are her paying taxes and not taking government benefits should begin a process towards application for citizenship.

I don't like paying taxes, same as everybody else.

Paying tax is not a punishment. It's a responsibility.

I love paying tax so much, the sight of a gritter lorry gives me an erection.

If you can look at a crime where everything points to one answer and not see it, you're a dumb-ass. And if you can look at the deficit and not see that the problem is that the rich stopped paying taxes, you're a Republican.