Taxes Quotes - Page 16

• Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Tired, Government

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• In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.

  Rick Perry

  Government, Michigan, Toilets

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• My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.

  Rick Perry

  Simple, Class, People

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• I think you need to have a tax system that basically is flat, fair and simple. And - that you can put on a post card. I mean, even Timothy Geithner could do this one and get it on time.

  Rick Perry

  Mean, Simple, Thinking

  "SQUAWK BOX" with John Harwood, www.cnbc.com. October 25, 2011.

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• We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise taxes; we came back in '05, and we had an $8 billion surplus. That's how fast it can happen.

  Rick Perry

  Cutting, January, Raises

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• It's really a question of fairness and what kind of country we're going to live in. There are 22,000 people making over $1 million. They're paying an effective tax rate in the teens. As Warren Buffett said, he pays less in taxes effectively than his secretary does. That's not right.

  David Plouffe

  Country, People, Doe

  "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 25, 2011.

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• By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.

  John Podhoretz

  Cutting, Class, Levels

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• As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.

  John Podhoretz

  Ideas, Matter, Groups

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• Romney has adopted almost every position conservatives want their candidate to espouse: He's pro-life, he wants to repeal ObamaCare, he wants to cut taxes and cut the federal budget, and he wants an unapologetic foreign policy dedicated to the proposition that this too will be the American century.

  John Podhoretz

  Cutting, Obamacare, Pro Life

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• Sixteen- and 17-year-olds pay taxes and can join the army, so surely they should in turn be given their right to vote.

  Lucy Powell

  Army, Years, Pay

  "Giving the vote to 16-year-olds is a question of democracy" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2008.

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• Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?

  Padgett Powell

  Writing, Charity, Gestures

  Padgett Powell (2010). “The Interrogative Mood”, p.15, Profile Books

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• Don't tax you, don't tax me;
  Tax the companies across the sea.

  Dan Rostenkowski

  Sea, Libertarian, Company

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• Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God. The Buddah held out hope that the suffering could be transcended. Jesus brought the message that even the last shall be first, that even the tax collectors and lepers - the outcasts - had cause for hope. And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope.

  John Green

  Jesus, Promise, Suffering

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• Just tell 'em you're gonna soak the fat boys and forget the rest of the tax stuff...Willie, make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em mad, even mad at you. Stir them up and they'll love it and come back for more, but, for heaven's sakes, don't try to improve their minds.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Boys, Mad, Laughing

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• Mark Kirk: Lied about going to war. Opposed middle class tax cuts. And said unemployment's not that big an issue.

  Alexi Giannoulias

  War, Cutting, Class

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• Federal government shutdowns are unsettling, because you realize how little you depend on it compared to the money you give in taxes.

  Roosh V

  Government, Giving, Littles

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• I was listening," the king said, aggrieved. "I closed my eyes to listen better." "What did you hear?" "I'm not sure," he said." That's why I was listening so closely. I may have to ask the baron to repeat some parts of his report on his grain tax." "I am sure you can arrange an appointment." "I am sure I can too.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Eye, Listening

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• The highway program devalues the tax base of a city.

  John Norquist

  Cities, Program, Devalue

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• Christ surrounded himself with beggars, prostitutes, tax-collectors and fishermen. ... what he meant by this was that the divine spark is in every soul and is never extinguished.

  Paulo Coelho

  Soul, Sparks, Christ

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “The Witch of Portobello”, p.40, HarperCollins UK

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• You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that he starts each day as the lawful possessor of twenty-four hours. Let him feel as a grievous tax that portion of this property which he has to make over to him employers, and as a generous donation that further portion which h allows to religious duties. But what he must never be permitted to doubt is that the total from which these deductions have been made was, in some mysterious sense, his own personal birthright.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religious, Feelings, Doubt

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• I tried to stay away from King. You can't do it. It's like staying away from taxes. Sooner or later, he'll get you.

  Mike Tyson

  Kings, Boxing, Sooner Or Later

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• Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you'll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Heart, Politics, Libertarian

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 25, 2003.

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• The best way to encourage economic vitality and growth is to let people keep their own money.When you spend your own money, somebody's got to manufacture that which you're spending it on. You see, more money in the private sector circulating makes it more likely that our economy will grow. And, incredibly enough, some want to take away part of those tax cuts. They've been reading the wrong textbook. You don't raise somebody's taxes in the middle of a recession. You trust people with their own money. And, by the way, that money isn't the government's money; it's the people's money.

  George W. Bush

  Reading, Cutting, Government

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• It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Support, Political

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• A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Cutting, Political

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