Taxes Quotes - Page 32

• Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. And the reason I am able to do these kind of movies is I have a tax shelter fund in Germany, and if you invest in a movie in Germany you get basically fifty percent back from the government.

  Uwe Boll

  Government, Germany, Shelter

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• Everyone who pays taxes has blood on their hands.

  Malachi Ritscher

  Blood, Hands, Pay

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• Church tax exemption means that we all drop our money in the collection boxes, whether we go to church or not and whether we are interested in the church or not. It is systematic and complete robbery, from which none of us escapes.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Mean, Church, Systematic

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• I will cut all state taxes by at least one third.

  Sonny Landham

  Cutting, States, All State

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• It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling.

  Bert Murray

  Shipping, Used, Inevitable

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• Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful.

  Charles M. Vest

  Helpful, Made, Revenue

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• People starve. The rulers consume too much with their taxes. That is why people starve.

  Laozi

  People, Taoism, Too Much

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• It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse of U.S. tax dollars.

  Russ Carnahan

  Hype, Abuse, President

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• We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.

  J. Irwin Miller

  Drug, Cost, Faces

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• Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour.

  Fritz Zwicky

  Home, Tired, House

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• We tax air passengers like cigarettes and alcohol - we impose sin taxes on travellers.

  Gordon Bethune

  Air, Alcohol, Sin

  "Sex, scotch and speed" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2002.

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• Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.

  Christina Romer

  Impact, Negative, Significant

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• Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.

  Zach Wamp

  School, Government, Way

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• Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.

  Zach Wamp

  Cutting, Republican, Economy

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• What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de facto segregation.

  Paul Weyrich

  Christian, School, Mind

  "Audacity and irony" by Angelia Wilson, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2008.

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• It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down.' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory.

  David Stockman

  Way, Sides, Kind

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• Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government.

  Arthur C. Brooks

  Government, Data, Support

  Arthur C. Brooks (2011). “The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future”, p.13, Basic Books

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• Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are spurring growth and helping businesses hire new workers while providing American families with job security.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Jobs, Numbers, Growth

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• I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.

  Questlove

  Believe, Men, People

  "Interview: How Questlove Stays Occupied" by Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2011.

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• The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business.

  Andrew Mellon

  Taxation, Pressure, Taxpayers

  Andrew W. Mellon (2016). “Taxation: The People’s Business”, p.8, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business and invest it in tax-exempt securities or to find other lawful methods of avoiding the realization of taxable income. The result is that the sources of taxation are drying up; wealth is failing to carry its share of the tax burden; and capital is being diverted into channels which yield neither revenue to the Government nor profit to the people.

  Andrew Mellon

  Yield, Government, People

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• I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.

  Jay Kay

  Art, Government, Car

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• If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.

  Walter Lang

  Space, People, Leader

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• While American taxes pay for much of the research and development that goes into creating the new, life-saving drugs, American consumers continue to subsidize the cost of the drugs for consumers across the world.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Research And Development, Creating, Drug

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• The government taxes you when you bring home a paycheck.
  It taxes you when you make a phone call.
  It taxes you when you turn on a light.
  It taxes you when you sell a stock.
  It taxes you when you fill your car with gas.
  It taxes you when you ride a plane.
  It taxes you when you get married.
  Then it taxes you when you die.
  This is taxual insanity and it must end.

  J. C. Watts

  Home, Phones, Light

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