Thomas Dewar Quotes

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.

Between income taxes and employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes, we're being taxed to death.

We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.

I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.

A lot of people in the western world don't realize how much taxes limit their options. You can end up paying almost half your income in taxes, which basically means you're working for the government for 180 days a year. I think I can find better ways to use the money I make for the benefit of society.

Taxes suck. They really stink.

I just don't want to pay taxes.

I don't support any increase in income tax rates.

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.

An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.

My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, it's only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other responsibilities, I get no change back from the first million dollars. The money flows out like water.

Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.

George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.

No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.

There are people who enjoy the life in England but don't pay a penny in tax, whereas my footballers pay more than half their income in tax.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

I've been paying a lot of money in state income taxes, and I've been happy to do it, but when this last thing happened, this 50 percent increase in the tax rate, it was just too much.

I think, in effect, in most of the European countries, the total marginal tax rate is over 50 percent; that's to say, add on other taxes like VAT to the income tax.

Why don't we go all the way and simple take the rich off the tax rolls altogether?

Taxes are always too high.

It seems idle to speculate in the abstract as to whether or not a progressive income tax schedule rising to rates in excess of 70 percent are justifiable …. The fact is that such rates cannot be successfully collected.

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted

Tax Day is often a source of frustration for taxpayers, so anything that can make the process less painful is appreciated.

Raising the personal allowance is massively expensive. For the same amount of money, you could look at reducing the rate of tax.