Taxes Quotes - Page 36

• Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue; it yields nothing but discontent, disorder, disobedience; and such is the state of America, that after wading through up to your eyes in blood, you could only end up where you begun; that is, to tax where no revenue is to be found... all is confusion beyond it.

  Edmund Burke

  Eye, Thinking, Blood

  Edmund Burke (1919). “Speech on Conciliation with America”

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• Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may have been different, but the result would once again be disaster. What happened in America was really round two of those wars - the civil war of the British Empire, with the Hanoverians playing the part of the Stuarts, and the Americans the heirs of the revolutionaries, of Cromwell and of William III, the inheritors of a true British liberty, that had somehow got lost in its own motherland.

  Simon Schama

  War, Two, America

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• "Would you tax God?" asks a defender of church tax exemption. Well, if there were a God he should be able to pay his own way and support his own business. If not, then he should do like other business men and close up shop.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Men, Support, Church

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• Many trees could be saved if the government stopped printing tax forms.

  Sam Ewing

  Government, Tree, Printing

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• When Clinton said he was going to create 8 million new jobs, I didn't think they were all going to be tax collectors.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Thinking, New Job

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• Just taught my kids about taxes by eating 38% of their ice cream.

  Conan O'Brien

  Kids, Ice Cream, Taught

  Twitter post from Sep 04, 2011

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• We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.

  Richard Neal

  Cutting, Towns, Arguing

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• If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes.

  Chris Chocola

  Children, Promise, Today

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• Why is it fair that I should be paying a higher percentage of taxes than anyone else?

  Sheldon Adelson

  Should, Percentages, Higher

  "Takes: Sheldon Adelson's switch" by Jon Michaud, www.newyorker.com. January 10, 2012.

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• The administration says the American people want tax cuts. Well, duh. The American people also want drive-through nickel beer night. The American people want to lose weight by eating ice cream. The American people love the Home Shopping Network because it's commercial-free.

  Will Durst

  Home, Beer, Cutting

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• For all long-term investors, there is only one objective-maximum total real return after taxes.

  John Templeton

  Real, Long, Return

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• We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid.

  John Spratt

  Cutting, Add, Debt

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• We are entering a new phase of European politics. What is decisive is not only do we have a single currency area, but also that it is accompanied by a co-ordinated economic and financial policy. We must drive forward tax harmonisation in Europe.

  Oskar Lafontaine

  Europe, Entering, Phases

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• I realize what it means to be financially comfortable, and I want to be that. But I'm lucky enough to be in that position. And I'm also careful. I save 38 percent of my earnings after expenses, before taxes.

  David Duval

  Mean, Lucky, Want

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• If Britons were left to tax themselves, there would be no schools, no hospitals, just a 500-mile-high statue of Diana, Princess of Wales.

  Andy Zaltzman

  Princess, School, Would Be

  "Not amused by Jimmy Carr? Check out these comedians instead" by Hazel Davis, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2009.

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• When you pay social security taxes, you are in no way making provision for your own retirement. You are paying the pensions of those who are already retired. Once you understand this, you see that whether you will get the benefits you are counting on when you retire depends on whether Congress will levy enough taxes, borrow enough, or print enough money.

  W. Allen Wallis

  Retirement, Benefits, Pay

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• A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax.

  Nick Clooney

  President, Salary, Social

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• Currently, 94 out of 100 of us pay the Social Security tax all year round.

  Nick Clooney

  Years, Pay, Social

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• I played the character knowing that she was knocked down, 100 percent, dead-in-front-of-a-bus in love with her boss. Every scene, I did not care if it was about taxes or about, you know, getting rid of the penny, it was all about me being in love with him.

  Janel Moloney

  Character, Being In Love, Knowing

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• To defer anything to the Greek Calends is to defer it sine die. There were no calends in the Greek months. The Romans used to pay rents, taxes, bills, etc., on the calends, and to defer paying them to the “Greek Calends” was virtually to repudiate them. (See NEVER.)

  E. Cobham Brewer

  Greek, Pay, Bills

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• In some cities they tear down buildings to save taxes. They might try tearing down some taxes to save buildings.

  Ken Schoolland

  Cities, Tears, Trying

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• These are the rules of big business. They have superseded the teachings of our parents and are reducible to a simple maxim: Get a monopoly; let Society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics, for a legislative grant, franchise, subsidy or tax exemption is worth more than a Kim-berly or Comstock lode, since it does not require any labor, either mental or physical, for its exploitation.

  Frederic C. Howe

  Teaching, Simple, Parent

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• I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.

  Hugo Black

  Believe, Kentucky, Scotch Whisky

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• Our Income Tax System is a disgrace to the human race.

  Jimmy Carter

  Race, Income, Humans

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• Generally speaking, investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. Anything that improves your own talents; nobody can tax it or take it away from you. They can run up huge deficits and the dollar can become worth far less. You can have all kinds of things happen. But if you’ve got talent yourself, and you’ve maximized your talent, you’ve got a tremendous asset that can return ten-fold.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Dollars, Investing

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