Income Tax Quotes - Page 4

• Most conservatives just want to turn back the clock to a time before the income tax - 100 years or so. I would like to turn the clock back thousands of years to a time when people lived in small communities and took care of each other.

  Pete Seeger

  Years, People, Community

  Source: portside.org

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• When two working people decide to marry, their federal income tax is usually increased. As soon as one spouse earns at least 20 percent of a married couple's total income, the couple pays a 'marriage tax.' ... The United States is the only major industrialized nation in the free world in which the tax cost of the second [married] earner's entry into the work force is higher than that of the first. On one hand, our government's social policy is to help working women earn equal salaries to those of men, but on the other we have a tax structure that penalizes them when they do so.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Couple, Men, Hands

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• Those who advocate either slavery or income taxation should be ashamed of themselves. Genuine freedom entails the abolition, not the reform, of income taxation and the IRS, just as genuine freedom entailed the abolition, not the reform, of slavery.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Irs, Taxation, Slavery

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• 65% of people say that cheating on your income tax is worse than cheating on your spouse. The other 35% were women.

  Jay Leno

  Cheating, People, Income

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• We very much hope that as we get growth that we can reduce the burden of taxation, that we can reduce income tax and increase the amount of genuine free enterprise and business enterprise... This is going... toward the restoration of the personal responsibility, the independence, with every man a property owner, every man a capitalist.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Men

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• New Hampshire has always been cheap, mean, rural, small-minded, and reactionary. It's one of the few states in the nation with neither a sales tax nor an income tax. Social services are totally inadequate there, it ranks at the bottom in state aid to education--the state is literally shaped like a dunce cap--and its medical assistance program is virtually nonexistent. Expecting aid for the poor there is like looking for an egg under a basilisk.... The state encourages skinflints, cheapskates, shutwallets, and pinched little joykillers who move there as a tax refuge to save money.

  Alexander Theroux

  Moving, Mean, Eggs

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• I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.

  Ann Richards

  People, Income, Pay

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• Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Country, Truth, Years

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• I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush.

  Jerry Falwell

  Strong, Income, Firsts

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• Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.

  Gail Collins

  Texas, Southern, Population

  "Border Raids". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 19, 2013.

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• Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They want that. And it's good policy.

  Gail Collins

  People, Voting, Income

  "Grand Bargain Express". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. December 5, 2012.

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• The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Real, People, Purses

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• In those countries where income taxes are lower than in the United States, the ability to defer the payment of U.S. tax by retaining income in the subsidiary companies provides a tax advantage for companies operating through overseas subsidiaries that is not available to companies operating solely in the United States. Many American investors properly made use of this deferral in the conduct of their foreign investment.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, United States, Income

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• We've already donated to Haiti. It's called the U.S. income tax.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Haiti, Income

  "Obama Leaps into Action on Haiti". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. January 13, 2010.

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• Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.

  Mike Pence

  Data, Historical, Income

  Interview with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. November 7, 2010.

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• If we don't do something to simplify the tax system, we're going to end up with a national police force of internal revenue agents.

  Leon Panetta

  Police, Agents, Force

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• We were giving advice for the single-worst idea to come forward from a group that's been rife with them, it would be this: The idea is this: Let's make the tax code of America better for very rich people; let's give substantial tax relief to the richest people we can find. Forget about the person making $40,000 a year and paying Social Security payroll tax. Forget about all those other people paying income tax; we're here to give tax relief to the richest 2% of America.

  Barney Frank

  Years, Ideas, Payroll Tax

  "Estate Tax Debate". "PBS NewsHour" with Kwame Holman, www.pbs.org. June 08, 2000.

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• Donald Trump is the least unpopular thing about today's Republican Party. I mean, the idea that a Mitch McConnell or a Paul Ryan could say, "Let's toss Trump overboard and return to our program of plutocratic politics, health care removal, massive income tax cuts for the affluent, deregulation of finance" - if they cut loose from Donald Trump, it's like, you know, storm in channel, continent cut off. If they cut loose from him, they are much likelier to sink.

  David Frum

  Party, Mean, Cutting

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• One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of personal income tax is that it strips many middle class families of financial reserves & seems to lend support to campaigns for socialized medicine, socialized housing, socialized food, socialized every thing. The personal income tax has made the individual vastly more dependent on the State & more avid for state hand-outs. It has shifted the balance in America from an individual-centered to a State-centered economic & social system.

  William Henry Chamberlin

  America, Avid, Hands

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• I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

  Pete Seeger

  Income, Conservative, Clock

  "The Old Left". New York Times (section 6, p. 13), www.nytimes.com. January 22, 1995.

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• It used to be that we taxed property - zapped farmers basically. And there were very rich people who didn't pay that much tax. So in 1913, they put in the income tax. It was incredibly popular. The tax we love to hate today.

  T.R. Reid

  Hate, People, Today

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• President Trump repeatedly says that "America is the highest-taxed country in the world." This is an alternative fact. We pay less in taxes, and our government spends less, as a share of our total wealth, than our counterparts in Western Europe and East Asia. But Trump is right when it comes to corporate tax rates; the U.S. corporate income tax right is among the highest in the world.

  T.R. Reid

  Country, President, World

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Corporations use all sorts of complex stratagems to move their profits overseas, and thus escape the U.S. income tax.

  T.R. Reid

  Moving, Taxes

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• The Founding Fathers realized that "the power to tax is the power to destroy," which is why they did not give the Federal government the power to impose an income tax. Needless to say, the Founders would be horrified to know that Americans today give more than a third of their income to the Federal government.

  Ron Paul

  Father, Government, Giving

  Ron Paul (2008). “Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property”, p.84, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I am too sick to work and haven't money enough to last 2 months and pay income tax. I want to keep going but do not see quite how, and there is no alternative - rather than justify my mother's 25-year dread of my "coming back on her, sick," I must kill myself. If she has to pay funeral costs, at least she will cut them to the bone and I will not be here to endure her martyrdom and prolong it by living.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Mother, Cutting, Years

  Rose Wilder Lane's diary entry, December 9, 1933.

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