Lewis Black Quotes

I want to feel good about paying taxes.

We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.

I think tax is tough in this country. Every time I sign a cheque to pay tax, it drives me crazy. But at the same time, I'm happy to live here. I want to have a good medical system, good education, good roads, so it's a Catch 22. I hate it, but it's a necessary evil.

I pay my taxes.

People think of taxes as money just being robbed from you. They don't consider the benefits of paying taxes. The benefits that they get and also the benefit of just being a part of a large group of people: a town, or a city, or a country, or a society that allegedly should stand together and all try to help each other.

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them, so they're a necessary evil

You have got to be willing to pay for the government you want.

Everybody should pay taxes.

I'm happy to pay my fair share - which is whatever the tax is right now.

In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.

I want paying taxes to feel like the accomplishment of a civic duty.

Of course kids should pay taxes.Tell littlie johnny if he wants to ride his bicycle on the sidewalk instead of in the mud,he's got to pay3 more pennies when he buys a candy bar.

No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.

Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.

Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.

Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem.

So I don't feel particularly wealthy-but, you know, I pay my taxes and I know that I am.

Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires.

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.

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

At the end of the day, philanthropy can only ever be an adjunct to what governments provide. And government coffers need to be replenished.

You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.

What the government gives it must first take away.

I want to pay taxes. I love this country.

Taxes are what pays for a civilized society.