Taxes Quotes - Page 16

• When you reduce taxes on higher earners it's vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation shares in the approach.

  William Hague

  People, Earning, Share

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• Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.

  Alexander Haig

  Long, Want, Libertarian

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• I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We're on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7, and that's our - our government's objective.

  Stephen Harper

  Government, Goal, Target

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 29, 2009.

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• Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures, and we will come out of it. We will go back into surplus position when the economy recovers. So there is no need in Canada to raise taxes.

  Stephen Harper

  Needs, Canada, Economy

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 29, 2009.

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• Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest.

  Stephen Harper

  Strong, Thinking, Government

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• Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.

  Dennis Hastert

  Strong, War, Winning

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• In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime.

  Doc Hastings

  Years, Six, Lifetime

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• The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution.

  Lauryn Hill

  Alternatives, Action, Accepted

  "Here's Why Lauryn Hill Refused To Pay Federal Taxes In The First Place" by Mandi Woodruff, www.businessinsider.com. April 23, 2013.

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• When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.

  Lauryn Hill

  Order, Safety, Guarantees

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe.

  Francois Hollande

  Europe, Cities, Issues

  "New French leader fires a broadside at Britain: You only care about the City of London, says President Hollande". www.dailymail.co.uk. May 8, 2012.

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• Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.

  Jesse Jackson

  Government, America, Risk

  Interview With Douglas Foster, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2000.

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• Balance the federal budget now, not 15 years from now, not 20 years from now, but now. And throw out the entire federal tax system, replace it with a fair tax, a consumption tax, that by all measurements is just that. It's fair.

  Gary Johnson

  Years, Balance, Measurement

  "Transcript: Fox News-Google GOP Debate". www.foxnews.com. September 22, 2011.

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• Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.

  Jack Kemp

  Law, Effort, Degrees

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• So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Country, People, Investing

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• Bush the Elder's stature as president grows with every passing year. He was the finest foreign policy president I've ever covered and a man who defied his party on tax increases while imposing budget restrictions on the Democrats.

  Joe Klein

  Party, Men, Years

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• Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors - brilliant!

  Charles Krauthammer

  Doctors, Numbers, Way

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• And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.

  Arthur Laffer

  Government, Done, Too Much

  "The Journal Editorial Report", www.foxnews.com. June 12, 2010.

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• It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.

  Arthur Laffer

  Cutting, Economy, Increase

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• For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from.

  Mary Landrieu

  Taken, Government, Years

  "Sen. Landrieu: Government made recovery 'difficult'". "Meet the Press" with Brian Williams, www.nbcnews.com. August 29, 2010.

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• My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, 'Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don't put everything in one basket,' but she let me explore and be creative.

  Queen Latifah

  Mom, Smart, Creative

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• President Obama has admitted that Medicare is on an unsustainable course and that no amount of tax increases can fix it.

  David Limbaugh

  President, Increase, Medicare

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• Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, President, Care

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• Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Cutting, Government, People

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• Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Trust, Cutting, Sunday

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• 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

  Running, Bridges, People

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