I tried to find a collection of both rightist and leftist quotes. I sourced this from the internet which sadly was lacking in footnotes and citations. Please advise me if I have things wrong.
People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.
Robert Half
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.Ronald Reagan
Why would we want to keep a tax cut that's failed? Why would we not want to go back to the Clinton tax code? And why would we not want to help every family more with a health-care plan like mine? Let's help average people. Let's be Democrats.
Dick Gephardt
Sadly, this is the same old Republican story of Robin Hood in reverse - tax cuts for the rich while programs for average and low income Americans suffer.
Jose Serrano
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
Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income.
Mark Dayton
Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.
Carol Moseley Braun
The real reason to oppose increasing tax rates on the wealthy is that it's a good bet they could do more to help the economy if they keep their money rather than have their earnings confiscated by the government and spent on another round of stimulus.
Terry Savage
I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.Arthur Godfrey
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.H.L. Mencken
The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.William Simon
We must care for each other more, and tax each other less.Bill Archer
The expenses of government, having for their object the interest of all, should be borne by everyone, and the more a man enjoys the advantages of society, the more he ought to hold himself honored in contributing to those expenses.Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors … and miss.Robert Heinlein
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.Jean Baptiste Colbert
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.John Maynard Keynes
The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.Will Rogers
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.G. Gordon Liddy
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
John F. Kennedy
In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.
Barack Obama
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
Will Rogers
We all know what the problems are: it's tax and spend. One party will tax and spend, the other party won't tax but will spend. It's both of them together.
Glenn Beck
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
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
Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.
Andy Rooney
Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas.
Joe Baca
To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it.
Tom Allen
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
The primary requisite for any new tax law is for it to exempt enough voters to win the next election.Unknown
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.
Jim Fiebig
Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.Author unknown, from a Washington Post word contest
Hall's Laws of Politics:
1. The voters want fewer taxes and more spending.
2. Citizens want honest politicians until they need something fixed.
3. Constituency drives out consistency (i.e. liberals defend military spending and conservatives social spending in their own constituency.)
