277 Quotes About Taxes

No, [I'm not an optimist]. I am an ameliorist, which is something I made up. I believe that the glass is half full. It’s just probably poisoned. And so my job is always to be on the hunt for the antidote.

There will be those who say that solutions such as wealth taxes have been tried before and failed, but that is not necessarily that the solutions are wrong, but because another innovation or strategy provides another way to reduce taxes.The solution to taxation is to allow incentives to encourage ingenuity and innovation and to match those positive characteristics with the desire to eliminate gross disparities in income and wealth.

Daylight Savings Time was created for the purpose of creating more taxable revenue on sales by the state governments by providing more daylight in the evening.

Private philanthropy might just be able to make United Nations agencies, international organizations, and government more effective in a way that just increasing taxes on billionaires can't.

I don't do charity, I pay taxes instead.

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

wouldn't you like to make sure all those millions you give to Uncle Sam went to schools and hospitals instead of nuclear warheads?'As a matter of fact, he would. Playgrounds for big kids, preschool programs to little ones, and mandatory LASIK surgery for NFL refs.

What we need is a tax on human stupidity.

A nation with minimum laws will have maximum laughter.