Taxes Quotes - Page 39

• Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion.

  Roger Wicker

  Marriage, Children, Cutting

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• We've been able to access deals that under our former relationship with Disney - with tax advantages and strategic partners - that we just weren't able to do.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Relationship, Able, Advantage

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• The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Women, Passing Away, Benefits

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• That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.

  Bud Abbott

  Stars, Europe, Guy

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

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• I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world. May your villages remain ignorant of tax collectors, and may your sons be many and ugly and strong and willing workers, and may your daughters be few and beautiful and excellent providers of love gifts from eminent families that live very far away, and may your lives be blessed by the beauty that has touched mine. Farewell.

  Barry Hughart

  Love, Beautiful, Daughter

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• My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes.

  Thomas E. Dewey

  Government, Decision, Finals

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• When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government.

  Ken Buck

  Government, Hands, Pay

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 17, 2010.

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• Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.

  Mitch McConnell

  Thinking, Middle, Should

  "Obama: GOP Inaction Threatens Nuke Treaty". www.cbsnews.com. November 20, 2010.

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• We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

  Pete du Pont

  Thinking, Census, Ought

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• That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.

  Payne Stewart

  Sports, Alternatives, Proud

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• For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.

  David S. Broder

  War, Pay, Firsts

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• We can push Montana forward and we can do it with out raising taxes.

  Brian Schweitzer

  Montana, Raising Taxes, Can Do

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• Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.

  Romano Prodi

  Thinking, Pay, Revolution

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• Today the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison with the 20's, but the high cost of today's living and taxes takes a huge bite out of these salaries.

  Pola Negri

  Stars, Salary, Cost

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• I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire's tax rate. For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credit.

  Warren Buffett

  Wind Farms, Law, Energy

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• If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation.

  Samuel Adams

  Land, Why Not, Produce

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• To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the purpose of providing for the general welfare.' For the laying of taxes is the power, and the general welfare the purpose for which the power is to be exercised. They are not to lay taxes ad libitum for any purpose they please; but only to pay the debts or provide for the welfare of the Union.

  Thomas Jefferson

  United States, Purpose, Taxation

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.216, Penguin

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• Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation? ... Today in our country the tax collector's share is 37 cents of every dollar earned. Freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Dollars, Taxation

  Ronald Reagan (1981). “Rendezvous with destiny”, Osmond Pub Co

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• Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been better to have smaller tax cuts in order to keep down the deficits.

  Timothy J. Russert

  Country, Cutting, Iraq

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• Additionally, this tax forces family businesses to invest in Uncle Sam rather than the economy. When families are forced to repurchase businesses because of the death tax, that means less money is being invested in new jobs and capital expansion.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Jobs, Uncles, Mean

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• Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. Think about it, 1848 Karl Marx, Communism.... I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS, my colleagues. I yield back all the rules, regulations, fear, and intimidation of our current system.

  James Traficant

  Thinking, America, Yield

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• As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn the money to pay them.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Father, Hard Work, President

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• You've been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-'fess up! With your great experience, don't you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes, so that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne'er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!

  Sinclair Lewis

  Country, Real, War

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• I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Funny, Money, Wife

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• Americans of all ages are earning less than they did two decades ago when adjusted for inflation. Yet they’re paying more in taxes.

  Simon Black

  Two, Age, Earning

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