Taxes Quotes - Page 31

• In general, presidents and congressmen have very limited power to do good for the economy and awesome power to do bad. The best good thing that politicians can do for the economy is to stop doing bad. In part, this can be achieved through reducing taxes and economic regulation, and staying out of our lives.

  Walter E. Williams

  President, Regulation, Politician

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• Bush has legitimized a huge expansion of the welfare state, liberalizing immigration, and using force for democratization abroad. All the next Democratic president has to do to finish Bush's hard work is to raise taxes to pay for it all.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Hard Work, President, Pay

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• With all due respect to Speaker Hastert, trying to eliminate the IRS by adopting a national retail sales tax is a very dumb idea.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Ideas, Dumb, Trying

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• Anti-Tax fetishist Grover Norquist owns a bust of Ronald Reagan, who raised taxes 11 times.

  John Fugelsang

  Raised, Grover

  Twitter post from Nov 20, 2012

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• Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Cutting, America, Illustration

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• And, frankly, what happens out of Washington is, it creates a wind in my face, uncertainty over Obamacare, uncertainty over their tax policy, uncertainty over the regulatory policy.

  John Kasich

  Wind, Obamacare, Faces

  "Interview with Ohio Governor John Kasich". Interview with John King, realclearpolitics.com. May 16, 2012.

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• Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.

  Charlie Munger

  Saving, Accounts, No Brainer

  "4 Steps To Getting Rich From Warren Buffett's Right-Hand Man" by Chuck Saletta, www.businessinsider.com. May 31, 2013.

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• Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used

  Tom Coburn

  Real, Cutting, Issues

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• I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.

  Robert Peel

  Political, Wages, Economy

  Sir Robert Peel (1853). “The speeches of the late Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, bart: delivered in the House of Commons”, p.601

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• Ive never supported a payroll tax.

  David Dewhurst

  Payroll Tax, Payroll

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• Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.

  Melissa Bean

  Giving Up, Rights, Privacy

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• The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.

  Jerry Weller

  Tolls, Information, Used

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• Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better.

  Nancy Johnson

  People, Bills, Helping

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• You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of his head to carry.

  Huey Long

  Men, Giving, Littles

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• Higher projected corporate and personal income tax receipts and lower public debt charges.

  Ralph Goodale

  Income, Debt, Higher

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• Eliminating the death tax is particularly important for the many small business owners and family farmers that call Central Washington home.

  Doc Hastings

  Home, Important, Small Business

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• Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.

  Todd Akin

  Dying, Reason, Should

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• The corruption of freedom is in proportion to the moral deterioration of the people. For a people who have lost their sense of self-respect have no need for freedom. And the income tax, by transferring the property of earners to the State, has disintegrated the moral fiber of Americans to such a degree that they do not even recognize the fact.

  Frank Chodorov

  Moral Fiber, Self, People

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.75, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Nevada.

  Kenny Guinn

  California, Doors, Pay

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• There have been brilliant satires about the tax bureaucracy before, from the Beatles song ‘The Taxman’ to the film ‘Harry’s War,’ but in some ways Jim Greenfield’s The Taxman Cometh outdoes them all. His tale of a little guy who can’t take it anymore is both compelling and timely, given the tax scandals we read about in Washington almost every day.

  John Fund

  Song, War, Guy

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• It's not rocket science. Hong Kong has 95% tax compliance, because it's code is only 4 pages long with a 15% flat tax.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Long, Pages, Rockets

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• The influence of (the national parks) is far beyond what is usually esteemed or usually considered. It has a relation to efficiency -- the working efficiency of the people, to their health, and particularly to their patriotism -- which would make the parks worth while, if there were not a cent of revenue in it, and if every visitor to the parks meant that the Government would have to pay a tax of $1 simply to get him there.

  J. Horace McFarland

  Government, People, National Parks

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• If it was true that lower taxes for the rich and more wealth to the wealthy leat to job creation, today we would be drowning in jobs.

  Nick Hanauer

  Jobs, Would Be, Today

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• The income tax is bad because it was conceived in class hatred, is an instrument of vengeance and plays right into the hands of the communists. It employs the vicious communist principle of taking from each according to his accumulation of the fruits of his labor and giving to others according to their needs, regardless of whether those needs are the result of indolence, or lack of pride, self-respect, personal dignity or other attributes of men.

  T. Coleman Andrews

  Pride, Men, Self

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• Rappers shouldn't have to file taxes because they itemize everything they own in songs.

  Damien Fahey

  Song, Rapper, Files

  Twitter post from Jul 05, 2012

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