Taxes Quotes - Page 33

• Efforts to ease regulations and reform the nation's tax system have helped put this self-sustaining recovery on track, The numbers prove our policies have not been wrong.

  Shinzo Abe

  Recovery, Numbers, Self

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• Higher energy prices act like a tax. They reduce the disposable income people have available for other things after they've paid their energy bills.

  John W. Snow

  People, Energy, Income

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• We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes in strange ways sex crimes, black masses.

  Terence Fisher

  Sex, Thinking, Black

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• One of the principal impediments to job creation is uncertainty on the part of American companies, large and small. We've all watched as companies have sat on a lot of capital. They're uncertain about what tax policy is going to be. They're clearly uncertain about how health care costs. They're uncertain about all the regulations on capital markets.

  Tom J. Donohue

  Jobs, Cost, Care

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• One such troubling provision is a tax increase to pay for the $635 billion included in the budget for health care 'reserve funds.' Health care reform is desperately needed in America, but I'm concerned that $635 billion will be a down payment on socialized medicine, causing the impersonal rationing of health care and destroying the doctor-patient relationship.

  Paul Broun

  Medicine, America, Doctors

  "REPORT: Limbaugh conservatives continue 75-year-old "socialized medicine" smear". www.mediamatters.org. March 5, 2009.

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• I have always maintained that if a program is to be successful, it must... be voluntary... based on need and must not be financed through a payroll tax.

  Thruston Ballard Morton

  Successful, Payroll Tax, Needs

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• The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.

  Stephen King

  Loyalty, Block, Simple

  Stephen King (1988). “The eyes of the dragon: a story”, Egully.com

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• One of the loveliest weddings I ever performed was that of a gay couple. To me if you are a good citizen, you pay your taxes, you work, you should have all the rights and responsibilities of everybody else.

  Judy Sheindlin

  Couple, Responsibility, Gay

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• Look, this is a man, he's got great numbers. He talks about numbers. I'm beginning to think not only did he invent the Internet, but he invented the calculator. It's fuzzy math. It's a scaring - trying to scare people in the voting booth. Under my tax plan, that he continues to criticize, I set a third - the federal government should take no more than a third of anybody's check.

  George W. Bush

  Math, Men, Thinking

  "Person of the Year; The Job Ahead; Breaking Ranks". www.cnn.com. December 17, 2000.

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• You either make it illegal, in which case you support a huge underground economy or you tax it within the limits people can afford.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Marijuana, People, Support

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• We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.

  Christopher Bond

  Needs, Saving, Investment

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• Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors.

  Bob Taft

  Senior, Dream, Strong

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• The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined.

  Dick Armey

  Average, Shelter, Libertarian

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• Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.

  Jennifer Dunn

  Practice, Adults, Paying Taxes

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• While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

  Tom Harkin

  Vaccines, Our Veterans, Giving

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• Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering in their yards instead of sputtering on the barricades, the government has gladly deprived itself of billions in tax revenues by letting home owners deduct mortgage interest payments.

  Florence King

  Women, Home, Unique

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.91, Macmillan

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• The only way America can reduce the long-term budget deficit, maintain vital services, protect Social Security and Medicare, invest more in education and infrastructure, and not raise taxes on the working middle class is by raising taxes on the super rich.

  Robert Reich

  Class, America, Long

  "Why We Must Raise Taxes on the Rich" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2011.

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• I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.

  Jonathan Ames

  Car, Fleas, Absurd

  Jonathan Ames (2012). “The Extra Man”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• I can understand where the oil company wants to deduct the cost of drilling a well. That's one of the tax breaks for oil companies - the subsidies - they get to deduct the cost of the well the year you drill.

  Dan Benishek

  Oil, Years, Subsidies

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• Yes here's to the founding fathers - slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes.

  David Mazzucchelli

  Father, Slave Owners, Citizens

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• It was not until the Abraham Lincoln administration that an income tax was imposed on Americans. Its stated purpose was to finance the war, but it took until 1872 for it to be repealed. During the Grover Cleveland administration, Congress enacted the Income Tax Act of 1894. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional in 1895. It took the Sixteenth Amendment (1913) to make permanent what the Framers feared -- today's income tax.

  Walter E. Williams

  War, Cleveland, Income

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• Raising taxes doesn't create jobs, and this is a common sense thing. Washington doesn't get it. They believe if they take more money and send it to Washington, D.C. somehow they create wealth. It doesn't work.

  Kevin Yoder

  Jobs, Believe, Common Sense

  "Erin Burnett Outfront", www.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.

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• What we need is more money back in the hands of Americans of any economic standing and so raising taxes right now doesnt make sense.

  Kevin Yoder

  Hands, Needs, Economic

  " Erin Burnett Outfront", www.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.

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• Now is not the time to compromise on the economy. Instead, we should be doing everything in our power to support long-term economic growth. Permanent repeal of the death tax will mean more high-quality, high-paying jobs for Americans.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Jobs, Mean, Power

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• The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Growth, Lines, Economic

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