Income Tax Quotes - Page 7

• I could juggle anything in my day. Balls, cigar boxes, knives...But there was one thing I could never juggle. My income tax.

  W. C. Fields

  Knives, Income, Balls

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• There is no moral distinction between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax.

  Leonard Read

  Income, Libertarian, Moral

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• The more the state gives to its citizens, the less they have to earn. That is the basic concept of the welfare state - you receive almost everything you need without having to earn any of it. About half of Americans now pay no federal income tax - but they receive all government benefits just as if they had paid for, i.e., earned them.

  Dennis Prager

  Government, Giving, Income

  "The More Given, the Less Earned" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 21, 2009.

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• Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.

  Bill Jenkins

  Principles, Income, States

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• I think if I were a superhero saving the world, I'd expect at least not to have to pay income taxes. I mean there should be something in it for a hero who risks his life to save mankind every day.

  Stan Lee

  Hero, Mean, Thinking

  "Stan Lee on Upcoming Marvel Cameos & Our 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' Giveaway". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. April 30, 2015.

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• Instead of talking about cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, we must end the absurdity of corporations not paying a nickel in federal income taxes.

  Bernie Sanders

  Cutting, Medicare And Medicaid, Talking

  FaceBook post by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders from Nov 03, 2013

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• As to the Income Tax, my opinion is that the needful revenue would be fairly and most fairly raised if paid by property, and by individuals in proportion to their property. A Property Tax should be an assessment upon all land and buildings, and canals and railroads, but not on property such as machinery, stock in trade, etc. The aristocracy have squeezed all they can out of the mass of the consumers, and now they lay their daring hands on those not wholly impoverished.

  John Bright

  Assessment, Hands, Land

  Letter to his sister Margaret, 1842. "The Life Of John Bright". Book by G. M. Trevelyan, pp. 72-73, 1913.

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• An across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes ... to expand the incentives and opportunities of private expenditures.

  John F. Kennedy

  Cutting, Opportunity, Incentives

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• In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising.

  James Rosen

  War, Vietnam, Income

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• So I'm not proposing anything radical. I just believe that anybody making over $250,000 a year should go back to the income tax rates we were paying under Bill Clinton. Back when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest budget surplus in history, and plenty of millionaires to boot. ... At the same time, most people agree that we should not raise taxes on middle-class families or small businesses -- not when so many folks are just trying to get by.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Believe, Years

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• Reform immigration to make it easy for individuals to come over here, be documented, pay taxes - immigration reform is needed to state that its about work, its not about welfare... Set up a grace period where they can get a work permit... social security card so that they can pay income tax, social security, Medicare.

  Gary Johnson

  Grace, Cards, Pay

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• When my mother makes out her income tax return every year, under occupation she writes, eroding my daughter's self-esteem.

  Robin Roberts

  Mother, Daughter, Self Esteem

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• Stop policing the world and we can get rid of income tax.

  Ron Paul

  Income, World, Taxes

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• The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.

  Rex Stout

  Income, Crime, Taxes

  Rex Stout (2011). “THREE MEN OUT”, p.156, Crimeline

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• I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.

  Corita Kent

  Art, Jail, Brave

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• New and expanded refundable tax credits would raise the fraction of taxpayers paying no income taxes to almost 50% from 38%. This is potentially the most pernicious feature of the president's budget, because it would cement a permanent voting majority with no stake in controlling the cost of general government.

  Michael J. Boskin

  Government, Voting, President

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• President Lyndon Johnson's administration was known for his War on Poverty. President Obama's will become notable for his War on Prosperity. We're speaking, of course, of Obama's plans to hike income taxes on the most wealthy 2 or 3 percent of the nation. He's not just raising the top rate to 39.6 percent; he's also disallowing about one-third of top earner's deductions, whether for state and local taxes, charitable contributions or mortgage interest. This is an effective hike in their taxes by an average of about 20 percent.

  Dick Morris

  War, Average, President

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• The most pernicious of his [Obama] proposals will be the massive Make Work Pay refundable tax credit. Dressed up as a tax cut, it will be a national welfare program, guaranteeing a majority of American households an annual check to 'refund' taxes they never paid. And it will eliminate the need for about 20% of American households to pay income taxes, lifting the proportion that need not do so to a majority of the voting population.

  Dick Morris

  Cutting, Welfare Programs, Voting

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• ...100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal Debt...all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services taxpayers expect from government.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Income, Gone

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• Most of them benefit businesses, things like research and development tax credits. But people will also benefit, too, from things like - the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit have been made permanent. They predominantly help lower-income families.

  Susan Davis

  Children, Research And Development, People

  "Here's What You Should Know About The $1.8 Trillion Spending Bill". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 21, 2015.

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• Hillary Clinton, told a reporter that she and Bill aren't truly well-off, even though they're incredibly rich because they pay income taxes like everybody else. In fact, she says, they were so poor when they left the White House, they could hardly afford Bill's website memberships.

  Peter Sagal

  White, House, Bills

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• We're talking about should we increase taxes? Why not put a tax on carbon emissions. It would raise a lot of money, it would reduce the environmental damages in the future, it would solve so many problems, and it would be a much more constructive thing to do than to think about raising the income tax.

  Robert F. Engle

  Thinking, Talking, Carbon Emissions

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Get rid of IRS; get rid of income tax; get rid of spending.

  Ron Paul

  Income, Irs, Spending

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• We began to temper Western democracy with what I'd call a social contract. We put in Social Security, graduated income tax, workers' compensation. We developed strong unions to negotiate with business owners so workers got an equitable share of the profits.

  John Shelby Spong

  Strong, Democracy, Unions

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want.

  Yuriy Tarnawsky

  Writing, House, Usual

  "No Tall Tales". Interview with David Moscovich, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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