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It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally. -- Lindsey Graham
Corporations must pay tax. -- Gore Vidal
I didn't pay my taxes for years. -- Noam Chomsky
Religions take donations and don't pay taxes. -- Deepak Chopra
You don't pay taxes - they take taxes. -- Chris Rock
I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax. -- Alan Sugar
One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes. -- Bernie Sanders
We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers. -- Manuel Moroun
The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes. -- Peter De Vries
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. -- George Sewell
I don't like paying taxes, same as everybody else. -- Charles Payne
Everyone wants the rich to pay more in taxes. -- Michael Arrington
We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley
Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote. -- Amity Shlaes
Wealthy people don't even pay taxes. But everybody must pay taxes. -- Petter Stordalen
Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes. -- Adam Carolla
Multinationals don't pay taxes in Africa - we all know that. -- Mo Ibrahim
I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
I don't mind paying the taxes I pay, which is pretty considerable. -- Bill Bennett
When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes. -- Ernie Banks
I wouldn't mind paying taxes... if I knew they were going to a friendly country -- Dick Gregory
I love paying tax so much, the sight of a gritter lorry gives me an erection -- Jon Richardson
The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax. -- Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship. -- Sarah Vowell
Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money. -- Alain de Botton
Same sex marriage isn't gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don't. -- Ricky Gervais
Historically, the best way to convert liberals is to have them move out of their parents' home, get a job, and start paying taxes. -- Ann Coulter
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money -- Arthur Godfrey
Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn't pay taxes. -- Adam Carolla
Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes. -- Dave Barry
With these 11 million people here illegally, let's have them registered, know who they are, those that are her paying taxes and not taking government benefits should begin a process towards application for citizenship. -- Mitt Romney
Worried about an IRS audit? Avoid what's called a red flag. That's something the IRS always looks for. For example, say you have some money left in your bank account after paying taxes. That's a red flag -- Jay Leno
If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly. -- Mario Cuomo
My second biggest mistake in life, for which I have no one to blame but myself, is having accepted payments in cash from Karlheinz Schreiber. My biggest mistake in life was pretending that I wasn't trying to avoid paying taxes on that money. -- Brian Mulroney
If you can look at a crime where everything points to one answer and not see it, you're a dumb-ass. And if you can look at the deficit and not see that the problem is that the rich stopped paying taxes, you're a Republican. -- Bill Maher
Short term, the most important thing is to put people back to work ... If they're working, that means they're paying taxes, that means that they're buying goods and services - and the economy, instead of being on a downward spiral, starts back up on an upward spiral. -- Barack Obama
Study and discipline are the prerequisite to any form of accomplishment. Unfortunately however, studying is much like paying taxes for most of us - we only do it when we have to. If you're serious about developing greatness in your life, study the lives of great men and women and follow their advice! -- Bob Proctor
Leaving America means renouncing your citizenship, moving out of the country and leaving family and friends behind. You can retain your citizenship if you like, but you'll still be away from loved ones and still be paying taxes. You lose all the good stuff about America and have to keep all the bad stuff. -- Michael Arrington
I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job. -- Bill Murray
The oil industry is hardly free to operate as efficiently as it could or to be as responsive to consumer demands as it would like. It has become, in essence, a quasi-state-run enterprise, because it cannot drill, transport, refine, and store fuel without receiving government permission, complying with government regulations, and paying taxes at every level or production. -- Mark Levin
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. -- Michael Schur
I don't like paying taxes, but I like sleeping at night. -- Leonardo Del Vecchio
I've always been paying my taxes and I've always been trying to comply. -- Wesley Snipes
I do believe that billionaires and multi-millionaires should be paying more in taxes. -- Bernie Sanders
The problem with the economy isn't that people aren't paying their fair share of taxes. -- Jon Lovitz
Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law. -- Jon Oringer
Why is it fair that I should be paying a higher percentage of taxes than anyone else? -- Sheldon Adelson
My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes that they should be paying higher taxes. -- Barack Obama
One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own. -- Josh Mandel
I don't mind paying higher taxes, because I've done quite well and I'm blessed to live in this country. -- Jamie Dimon
Americans of all ages are earning less than they did two decades ago when adjusted for inflation. Yet they're paying more in taxes. -- Simon Black
Warren Buffett's company reportedly owes the IRS a billion dollars in back taxes. When he said he wasn't paying enough taxes, he wasn't kidding. -- Jay Leno
If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever around their office. -- Warren Buffett
On the whole, I prefer not to be lectured on patriotism by those who keep offshore maildrops in order to avoid paying their taxes. -- Molly Ivins
You can never really own real estate for instance; if you think you can, just try not paying your property taxes for a few years. -- Michael Maloney
My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don't owe you a penny. -- Cindy Sheehan
I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies. -- Zoe Saldana
People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth. -- Will Rogers
There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there. -- Bill Murray
Instead of talking about cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, we must end the absurdity of corporations not paying a nickel in federal income taxes. -- Bernie Sanders
Another one of President Barack Obama's nominees is having tax issues, which proves one thing: The Democrats like raising the taxes, but they hate paying them. -- Craig Ferguson
I currently live independently without any funded support. I'm educated, and I'm employed. I enjoy paying my taxes and contributing to the economic life of Australia. -- Stella Young
If there are healthy - and growing - numbers of people working and paying taxes, we are better able to pay the costs of people living longer. -- Nicola Sturgeon
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. -- Jennifer Dunn
Most people in America understand that the rich people hire good accountants and figure out how not to necessarily pay all the taxes that they should be paying. -- George W. Bush
I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've ever paid in my life. -- Warren Buffett
Tax is a big expense. And I wouldn't mind paying taxes a lot less if our politicians knew how to spend the money, but they don't. They waste the money. -- Donald Trump
There's almost no way of doing importing honestly, because if you do you're at such a disadvantage competitively. So people spend huge amounts of effort getting around stupid laws and not paying taxes. -- Esther Dyson
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. -- Rush Limbaugh

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