The problem with being an employee or self-employed is you pay the highest taxes.

When hiring somebody, I never ask to see a curriculum vitae. I feel that since I didn’t have one myself, it would be a bit presumptuous to ask to see anyone else’s.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community – and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we’re now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

The biggest and most deadly ‚tax‘ rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits – food stamps, housing subsidies and the like – if their income goes up.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

The Make in India campaign has taken off and is backed with skill development. It is going to open new vistas for employment for the youth.

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they’re learned to do more with less, and so they don’t hire.

You know people talk about federal money as if it falls from heaven. You know we thank heaven for it, but it came out of people’s pockets – and I’ve driven all over Washington, D.C., I cannot find the money tree.

The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too – eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko’s, Fatburger, Subway – I was a sandwich artist – and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Working hard to earn more money and then giving it away in higher taxes isn’t financially intelligent, even if you do put some of it into a retirement account.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Tourism provides employment to the poorest of the poor. Gram seller earns something, auto-rickshaw driver earns something, pakoda seller earns something, and tea seller also earns something.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

Every time the Fed implements ‚quantitative easing,‘ a.k.a. printing more money, two things go up: taxes and inflation. When taxes and inflation go up, more jobs are lost.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it’s the right thing to do. It’s economics 101, elementary stuff.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing – stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses – makes more money for me than making movies.

The IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end – people like myself – should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we’ve ever had it.

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.

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I’m not based in Monaco… I think my country helped me.

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.

I’m touring the world, not doing nothing against the law, getting money to feed my family. I got employees that have felonies, and they can’t get jobs. They work for me.

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

It’s extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can’t get a job on a ship unless you have seaman’s paper’s, and you can’t get seaman’s papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.

In the middle of a recession, where we’re just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

‚Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.‘ Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

Well, yeah, people are working in our country. You know what? They’re working two and three jobs, and in our America, people should not have to work more than one job to be able to put food on the table and have a roof over their head.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

I believe – we all pay taxes. I’m happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That’s going to bother you.

Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

I’m a working-class person, working with class.

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

If I lost my job, I’d get a job at McDonald’s.

And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

You can’t have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.