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

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

I just think that – when a country needs more income and we do, we’re only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that – that – when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

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.

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.

Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

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 and haven’t been unemployed for 20 years. I’m an exception to the rule.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

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.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

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.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

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

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.

Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.

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.

The real minimum wage is zero.

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

I didn’t pay my taxes for years.

An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It’s not a popular position.

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.

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.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

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

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.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

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.

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

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.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment… the European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.

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

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

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.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

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

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.

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

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

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.

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it’s about a lot more than being able to make money.

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

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.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.