Taxes Quotes - Page 37

• Democracy is mob rule with income taxes.

  Gloria Steinem

  Democracy, Mob Rule, Income

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• Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy, the gap between rich and poor. What do these issues have in common? Politicians, the media, and our so-called leaders lie to us about them. They lie about the cause. They lie about the effect. They lie about the solutions.

  Larry Elder

  Lying, School, Issues

  Larry Elder (2001). “The Ten Things You Can't Say In America”, p.7, St. Martin's Griffin

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• A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.

  Lane Evans

  Cutting, Issues, Names

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• We could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code.

  Richard Neal

  America, Working Together, Desire

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• Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in a clumsy enough way by pasting several linear functions together, each valid in another interval or bracket of income. An archeologist who, five thousand years from now, shall unearth some of our income tax returns together with relics of engineering works and mathematical books, will probably date them a couple of centuries earlier, certainly before Galileo and Vieta.

  Hermann Weyl

  Couple, Book, Math

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• What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.

  Thomas Paine

  Names, Taxation, Firsts

  Thomas Paine (2014). “Selected Writings of Thomas Paine”, p.276, Yale University Press

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• Wealthy individuals bought themselves a radical right party, believing - correctly - that it would cut their taxes and remove regulations, but failed to realize that eventually the craziness would take on a life of its own, and that the monster they created would turn on its creators as well as the little people.

  Paul Krugman

  Party, Believe, Cutting

  "The Economics and Politics of Chaos" by Paul Krugman, krugman.blogs.nytimes.com. October 01, 2013.

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• If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.

  J. Paul Getty

  Oil, Up Early, Pay

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• Recently the country has seen too much of our legislators, seeing them as a gaggle of check-kiting, judge-smearing deadbeats who don't pay their restaurant bills but raise their pay in the middle of the night. Many Americans-this columnist included-hitherto said tax increases are justified by the budget deficit now say: Give that mob more money? Never. Not a nickel of new taxes until term limits change the political culture on Capital Hill.

  George Will

  Country, Money, Night

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• It is my belief that tax credits only go to people who are making money, and they generally keep it.

  Dianne Feinstein

  People, Credit, Belief

  "Reid kills Baucus-Grassley jobs bill" by Lisa Lerer and James Hohmann, www.politico.com. February 11, 2010.

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• An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.

  Will Durant

  Men, Play, Skills

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1954). “The story of civilization”

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• Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.

  Will Durant

  Fighting, Men, Society

  Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bare ass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

  Arthur Miller

  Girl, Blow, Intelligent

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

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• We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact real and substantive middle class tax relief, and reward companies that create jobs at home.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Jobs, Real, Home

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• Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Luxury, Vanity, Income

  "What the well-dressed dog is wearing this season" by Kate Carter, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2011.

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• The right wing walks the walk; the left wing taxes the people that walk the walk

  Dennis Prager

  Wings, People, Walks

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• All is fair in love, war and tax evasion.

  Tom Sharpe

  War, Tax Evasion, Fairs

  Tom Sharpe (1984). “The throwback”, Vintage

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• Is it me, or is the government more concerned about its own tax headaches, than your tax headaches?

  Neil Cavuto

  Government, Headache, Concerned

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• The payroll tax increase was destructive financially, it took what was a close call and made it a bad call.

  Mike McGavick

  Payroll Tax, Increase, Made

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• If it turns out that the Mayans are right and the world is going to end, you know what this means?
  Lindsay Lohan is a genius. She's been partying her brains out. She owes taxes. She’s crashing cars. She’s a genius!

  Jay Leno

  Party, Mean, Car

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• Fundamental [tax] reform almost always runs the risk of making things worse.

  Dan Rostenkowski

  Running, Risk, Reform

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• If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist.

  Stephen Colbert

  Incentives, Corporations, Facts

  “Stephen Colbert must be stopped!” by Dean Obeidallah, www.cnn.com. February 22, 2012.

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• Teddy Roosevelt supported a progressive income tax. If I am sitting pretty and you've got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can't, what's the big deal for me to say, 'I'm going to pay a little bit more'? That is neighborliness.

  Barack Obama

  Income, Sitting, Minimum Wage

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• There's no skill. You can be a rock and move into another tax bracket.

  Howie Mandel

  Moving, Rocks, Skills

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• Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes, your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write.

  Mark Cuban

  Business, Writing, Bills

  "Get rich, pay taxes: it's a patriotic duty" by Mark Cuban, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2011.

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