Paying Taxes Quotes - Page 2

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

  Chris Matthews

  Responsibility, Punishment, Taxes

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Remember that all tax revenue is the result of holding a gun to somebody's head. Not paying taxes is against the law. If you don't pay your taxes, you'll be fined. If you don't pay the fine, you'll be jailed. If you try to escape from jail, you'll be shot. ... Therefore, every time the government spends money on anything, you have to ask yourself, 'Would I kill my kindly, gray-haired mother for this?'

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Mother, Gun, Law

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• 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

  People, President, Administration

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• 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

  Mean, People, Important

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• There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there.

  Bill Murray

  Jobs, Acting, Asking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Jon Richardson

  Sight, Giving, Lorry

  "Edinburgh festival rapid review: Jon Richardson" by Paul MacInnes, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2008.

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• 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

  Kids, Thinking, Years

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• 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

  Running, Bridges, People

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• 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

  Practice, Adults, Debt

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• When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.

  Ernie Banks

  Sports, Morning, Insecure

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

  Sarah Vowell

  Voting, Citizenship, Goofing Off

  Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• Young men and women - young men and women signed up to serve in the military to fight terrorism. Hillary Clinton went to Washington to get funds to rebuild her city, and protect first responders but Donald Trump was fighting a very different fight. It was a fight to avoid paying taxes so that he wouldn't support the fight against terror.

  Tim Kaine

  Military, Fighting, Men

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Let's at least acknowledge who is working in America right now and what our needs are, as well as the moral question of somebody who's been here 20 years, paying taxes to which they probably do not receive a refund, and not committing any crimes, working hard, and supporting an industry. Shouldn't there be some middle ground here? Shouldn't there be a way for them to be welcome in this country?

  Anthony Bourdain

  Country, Years, America

  "A 'Brutally Honest' Taste Of Anthony Bourdain's Hunger Tour At Foxwoods". Interview with Leeanne Griffin, www.courant.com. September 26, 2016.

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• I think the American people are gonna be reasonable with what do you do with someone who has been in this country for 10 or 12 years who hasn't otherwise violated our laws - because if they're a criminal they can't stay. They'll have to undergo a background check, pay a fine, start paying taxes. And ultimately, they'll given a work permit and that's all they're gonna be allowed to have for at least 10 years.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Thinking, Years

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I'm making a lot of money. I should be paying a lot more taxes. I'm not paying taxes at a rate that is even close to what people were paying under Eisenhower. Do people think America wasn't ascendant and wasn't an upwardly mobile society under Eisenhower in the '50s? Nobody was looking at the country then and thinking to themselves, "We're taxing ourselves into oblivion." Yet there isn't a politician with balls enough to tell that truth because the whole system has been muddied by the rich. It's been purchased.

  David Simon

  Country, Thinking, America

  Source: progressive.org

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• 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.

  Donald Trump

  Mind, Waste, Politician

  "Where will Trump focus his criticism in next debate?". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. September 29, 2016.

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• 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

  Smart, Law, Jail

  NBC TV, August 12, 1986.

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

  Alain de Botton

  Gratitude, Punishment, Making Money

  Twitter post from Sep 23, 2012

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• I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Hate, Civilization, Giving

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• Donald Trump has broken his first promise [to release taxes]. Second he stood on this stage last week and when Hillary said you haven't been paying taxes, he said, that makes me smart. So it's smart not to pay for our military. It's smart not to pay for veterans, it's smart not to pay for teachers and I guess all of us who do pay for those things I guess we're stupid.

  Tim Kaine

  Teacher, Military, Smart

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I would just say it's not good for the country to have 11 million people here who we don't know who they are, where they're living. They're not paying taxes, but they're showing up in emergency rooms. They're driving up the cost of auto insurance 'cause they don't have driver's licenses and are getting into accidents. They're having children, which are US citizens. So, I mean, it's an issue that needs to be dealt with.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Children, Mean

  "EIB Interview: Why, Senator Rubio?". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. April 18, 2013.

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• We had no religion at all, but we were Jews in New Hampshire, and my sister - who is now a rabbi - said it best: We were, like, the only Jews in Bedford, New Hampshire, as well as the only Democrats, so we just kind of associated those two things together. My dad raised us to believe that paying taxes is an honor.

  Roseanne Barr

  Dad, Believe, Two

  Source: www.elle.com

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• 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

  Country, Men, Law

  "They've Got a New Dictionary at Ellis Island" (1926)

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

  Leonardo Del Vecchio

  Sleep, Night, Taxes

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• Is it wrong to love another man? Of course not. It's not. And is it wrong to love your son, marry your son, to avoid paying taxes? Of course the people that would probably do this are people on the left who want everybody to pay more taxes.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Love You, Son, Men

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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