Quotes of: Raising-taxes Keyword

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

H. L. Mencken

France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden... something of which I am not proud.

Nicolas Sarkozy

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

Olin Miller

We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible.

Peter Camejo

If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.

Pat Toomey

I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.

Peter Welch

It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse of U.S. tax dollars.

Russ Carnahan

Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

Ramakrishna

Rights" are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes.

Stefan Molyneux

Yes I pay taxes... There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man with the gun, not the man in the crosshairs trying to survive.

Stefan Molyneux

I'm not feeling undertaxed. Tax reform is an important issue. You have to have an inherent sense of fairness.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

If you think we are going to gain ground by holding the American people hostage, saying that their taxes are at risk, I actually disagree.

Tom Cole

Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.

Tom Daschle

My premise is not to tax to destroy the wealth of the wealthy; it's to increase the wealth of the bottom and the middle class.

Thomas Piketty

This idea of holding the Defense Department hostage to the tax debate makes me sick to my stomach. Knock it off.

Lindsey Graham

What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that higher taxes mean fewer American jobs and less American production.

Lynn Westmoreland

Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.

Melissa Bean

People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes.

Mian Muhammad Mansha

I'd think people would want me to follow the law and pay only what the tax code requires.

Mitt Romney

An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.

Matt Taibbi

The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.

Mark Zandi