Taxes Quotes - Page 28

• As I've often said, Wisconsin's greatest strength continues to be the dedicated, hardworking people of our state. They go to work everyday, pay their taxes, and raise their kids with good, Midwestern values.

  Jim Doyle

  Kids, People, Everyday

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• If our children are healthy, they'll develop into their full potential and become wonderful tax-paying citizens sometime.

  Steve Kagen

  Children, Healthy, Full Potential

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• France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden...something of which I am not proud.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Country, Europe, Sweden

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• Try walking the halls of Congress. It's Abercrombie & Fitch meets the Hair Club for Men. Lots of really photogenic young people kissing up to lots of insufferable blowhards. Separated by one or two generations, most of these players have only one real thing in common: They have never been weaned from the public teat. The closest they've ever come to meeting a payroll is when they come together to spend everyone else's payroll taxes.

  Michelle Malkin

  Real, Kissing, Player

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• ... both individuals and companies are using the Netherlands as a haven for productive activity. ... This is good news for all taxpayers. The rich directly benefit, since greedy politicians are unable to seize as much of their money. And the rest of us benefit, since this puts downward pressure on tax rates as governments try to keep the geese that lay the golden eggs from flying away.

  Daniel J. Mitchell

  Government, Eggs, Political

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• Our current tax code is one that was designed by and for the benefit of politicians and lobbyists. It punishes achievement and rewards laziness. It punishes the voting blocks unimportant to politicians, and rewards voting blocks who keep them in office.

  Neal Boortz

  Block, Office, Achievement

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• In relation to the immense sacrifices that the state demands of the individual through the blood tax, it seems rather incidental whether it compensates the soldier more or less abundantly for the loss of time that he suffers from his military-service obligation.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Military, Loss, Sacrifice

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• By requiring that any surplus in Social Security taxes be returned to the American people in personal savings accounts, the plan ensures that Social Security taxes will be used for Social Security.

  Mike Pence

  People, Saving, Social

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts.

  Mike Pence

  Trust, Saving, Social

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government

  Mitch Daniels

  Government, Pockets, Doe

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• Our ideal society finds it essential to put a rent on land as a way of maximizing the total consumption available to the society. ...Pure land rent is in the nature of a 'surplus' which can be taxed heavily without distorting production incentives or efficiency. A land value tax can be called 'the useful tax on measured land surplus'.

  Paul Samuelson

  Land, Essentials, Incentives

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• Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. Guess what? Yes we do.

  Joe Biden

  Dollars, Biden, Want

  "CBS Uncritically Promotes Obama Campaign's Attack Hinting Romney is 'Less than Truthful'". Interview with Matthew Balan, www.newsbusters.org. October 5, 2012.

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• Bringing the troops home is necessary not just for the future of Iraq, but also for the people of the United States. We must stop the hemorrhaging of tax dollars that could go to meet our Nations vital domestic needs.

  Raul Grijalva

  Home, Iraq, People

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• Please give reason. Raised taxes; marching us off to war again; approved more NSA snooping. WHO ARE THEY?!

  Matt Drudge

  War, Nsa, Giving

  "Matt Drudge Asks: 'Why Would Anyone Vote Republican?'" by Josh Voorhees, www.businessinsider.com. September 3, 2013.

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• The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief.

  Dick Morris

  Party, Cutting, Class

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• Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

  Dick Morris

  Cutting, Favors, Increase

  "Bush's latest investor-friendly tax cut". www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2003.

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• The current tax code is harder to understand than Bob Dylan reading Finnegans Wake in a wind tunnel.

  Dennis Miller

  Reading, Tunnels, Wind

  Dennis Miller (2001). “I Rant, Therefore I Am”, p.173, Crown Forum

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• Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

  Rose Macaulay

  Reading, Doe, Fiction

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• Ronald Reagans vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he rebuilt our military and reinvigorated our confidence in ourselves.

  David Vitter

  Confidence, Strong, Military

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• The law, right now, permits companies that close down American factories and offices and move those jobs overseas to take a tax deduction for the costs associated with moving the jobs to China or India or wherever.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Jobs, Moving, Law

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• President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage.

  Bill Shuster

  Marriage, Senior, Cutting

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• Escapology has one thing going for it that probably made Harry Houdini such a superstar in his day and a legend in the present. Everyone wants to escape from something. Taxes, contracts, illness, work, the multitude of burdens that we chafe under are shadows from which we want to escape.

  James Randi

  Magic, Shadow, Going For It

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• We pass bills authorizing improvements and grants. But when it comes time to pay for these programs, we'd rather put the country's money toward tax breaks for the wealthy than for police officers who are protecting our communities.

  David Price

  Country, Community, Police

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• We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  New York, Moving, Security Guards

  The Guardian, May 23, 1992.

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• Peace is the best time for improvement and preparation of every kind; it is in peace that our commerce flourishes most, that taxes are most easily paid, and that the revenue is most productive.

  James Monroe

  Preparation, President, Improvement

  James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”

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