Taxes Quotes - Page 24

• I think that anybody who works and pays taxes ought to have a right for citizenship.

  Cruz Bustamante

  Thinking, Pay, Citizenship

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• Don't tax you, don't tax me;
  Tax the companies across the sea.

  Dan Rostenkowski

  Sea, Libertarian, Company

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• Pittsburgh have showed me a couple deals, but we all know the money ain't what it's supposed to be. If I quit the game right now, I can take tax-free money, and that's a difficult thing that I'm going through with myself.

  Jermichael Finley

  Couple, Games, Pittsburgh

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• Federal government shutdowns are unsettling, because you realize how little you depend on it compared to the money you give in taxes.

  Roosh V

  Government, Giving, Littles

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• If you add up all the federal and you look at the disability and the unemployment and the Social Security and the state, my tax rate's 62, 63 percent. So I've got to make some decisions on what I'm going to do.

  Phil Mickelson

  Decision, Add, Unemployment

  "Phil Mickelson may quit golf due to rising taxes". www.sbnation.com. January 21, 2013.

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• The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

  Campbell Newman

  Listening, Gold, Example

  "New Qld Premier calls for greater independence from Commonwealth". "AM" with Sabra Lane, www.abc.net.au. April 13, 2012.

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• The best way to encourage economic vitality and growth is to let people keep their own money.When you spend your own money, somebody's got to manufacture that which you're spending it on. You see, more money in the private sector circulating makes it more likely that our economy will grow. And, incredibly enough, some want to take away part of those tax cuts. They've been reading the wrong textbook. You don't raise somebody's taxes in the middle of a recession. You trust people with their own money. And, by the way, that money isn't the government's money; it's the people's money.

  George W. Bush

  Reading, Cutting, Government

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• A lot of times in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And the facts are that thousands of small businesses-Hispanically owned or otherwise-pay taxes at the highest marginal rate.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, People, Political

  Remarks by the President to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. March 19, 2001.

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• There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.

  Julia Gillard

  Government, Carbon Tax, Carbon

  "PM says no carbon tax under her govt". www.smh.com.au. August 16, 2010.

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• Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.

  Tom DeLay

  War, Cutting, Important

  "A Cut Too Far" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. April 21, 2003.

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• It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Support, Political

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• A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Cutting, Political

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• Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is-I'm not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I'm the president.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, People, Political

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• This thought-provoking novel portrays the absurdity of our overbearing government bureaucracy with a story that is entertaining and fast-paced. The Taxman Cometh will become part of our national dialogue about taxes and freedom. And it’s funny as hell. Author Jim Greenfield is a cross between Ayn Rand and Monty Python. If enough people read this hilarious ‘man versus state’ book, the IRS will be put out of business, which is okay with me.

  Grover Norquist

  Book, Men, Python

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• If all those magnificent cathedrals with their valuable lands in Boston, Philadelphia and New York were taxed as they should be, the taxes of women who hold property would be proportionately lightened....I cannot see any good reason why wealthy churches and a certain amount of property of the clergy should be exempt from taxation, while every poor widow in the land, struggling to feed, clothe, and educate a family of children, must be taxed on the narrow lot and humble home.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  New York, Children, Struggle

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• The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations... But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Government, Views, Class

  The Guardian, May 23, 1992.

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• I tried to stay away from King. You can't do it. It's like staying away from taxes. Sooner or later, he'll get you.

  Mike Tyson

  Kings, Boxing, Sooner Or Later

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• Forget death and taxes. The only sure thing is that, win or lose, Don King is counting the money.

  Tim Witherspoon

  Kings, Winning, Boxing

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• Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Justice, Rewards, Citizens

  Ambrose Bierce (2006). “Terror by Night: Classic Ghost and Horror Stories”, p.9, Wordsworth Editions

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• Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the society he lived in. (See, for example, _A Piece of My Mind_; _The Cold War and the Income Tax_; the introduction to _Patriotic Gore_.) Our conventional critics cannot forgive him for those scandalous lapses in good taste.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Patriotic, Judging

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• On issue after issue, the polls - and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time - show that most Americans share what one could call core liberal or progressive values: investment in health care and education over tax cuts; fair trade over free trade; corporate accountability over deregulation; environmental protection over laissez-faire policies; defending Social Security and Medicare over privatizing them; raising the minimum wage over eliminating it. The country prefers progressive alternatives to the failed policies of the conservative right.

  Katrina vanden Heuvel

  Country, Health, Cutting

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• Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibustered and requires only a simple majority in the Senate to be passed. It is primarily intended for deficit and mandatory spending reduction

  Jeff Miller

  Simple, Law, Special

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• I was working on a flat tax proposal and accidentally proved there was no God.

  Homer

  Proposal, Funny Simpsons, Flat Tax

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• History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20 percent of the people's income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government.... When it reaches 25 percent, there comes an increase in lawlessness.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Government, People

  Ronald Reagan, Mark J. Green, Gail MacColl (1983). “There he goes again: Ronald Reagan's reign of error”, Pantheon

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• A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget.

  John F. Kennedy

  Home, Mean, Cutting

  "Radio and Television Address to the Nation on the Test Ban Treaty and the Tax Reduction Bill". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 18, 1963.

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