Taxes Quotes - Page 26

• If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.

  Austan Goolsbee

  Receiving, Lobbyists, Income

  "Austan Goolsbee Talks Economy and Elections". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2010.

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• I am neither a free-trade man, willing to collect all the money we have to raise by direct tax upon the people, nor am I willing to lay a tax simply for protection when the Government does not need the money.

  Joseph E. Brown

  Men, People, Doe

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• Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

  Henry Knox

  Distance, Men, Rulers

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• If you want to get rich with a tax free enterprise that sells nothing, start a church.

  Bill Maher

  Church, Want, Rich

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• When one becomes a liberal, he or she pretends to advocate tolerance, equality and peace, but hilariously, they’re doing so for purely selfish reasons. It’s the human equivalent of a puppy dog’s face: an evolutionary tool designed to enhance survival, reproductive value and status. In short, liberalism is based on one central desire: to look cool in front of others in order to get love. Preaching tolerance makes you look cooler, than saying something like, 'please lower my taxes.'

  Greg Gutfeld

  Dog, Selfish, Order

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• Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Luxury, People, Telephones

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• Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.

  Curt Schilling

  Believe, Government, Dollars

  "MLB great Curt Schilling thriving in second career". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. March 16, 2012.

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• The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.

  Arnaud Montebourg

  Government, Austerity, Economic

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• We don't need a flat tax, but a flattening tax, to truly level the playing field.

  Jello Biafra

  Needs, Levels, Fields

  Address to the US Green Party, 2000.

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• If you've been here 15 years and you've got three kids and grandkids and you've been paying taxes and obeying the law, you belong to a local church, I don't think we're going to separate you from your family, uproot you forcefully and kick you out.

  Newt Gingrich

  Kids, Thinking, Years

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• Conservatives in general, and even so called Tea Party conservatives, are not against transportation spending. Indeed, interstate commerce is one purpose of interstate highways and byways, and is one of the things the federal government is actually supposed to spend our tax dollars on. What conservatives are opposed to is needless and excessive spending, pork-barrel spending, deficit spending, spending to pick winners and losers among American individuals and corporations, and spending to promote the social and economic whims of the Washington few.

  Barry Loudermilk

  Party, Government, Tea

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

  John Norquist

  Cities, Program, Devalue

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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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• Pittsburgh have showed me a couple deals, but we all know the money ain't what it's supposed to be. If I quit the game right now, I can take tax-free money, and that's a difficult thing that I'm going through with myself.

  Jermichael Finley

  Couple, Games, Pittsburgh

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• I wish you wouldn't make the strings such an important part of your arrangements because frankly they're only a tax dodge!

  Tommy Dorsey

  Wish, Important, Dodge

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

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• Uncertainty hurts business. It annoys individuals. Why keep the whole country, including business and individuals, in uncertainty over the extent of the tax burdens to be placed upon us? How many of those who voted for Calvin Coolidge imagined for a moment that would do nothing to bring about tax relief before 1926?.... But if the Administration persists in opposing a special session then it will inevitably be 1926 before action is taken.... Coolidge and Congress should ease our minds and grease our activities by reforming and reducing taxation as soon as feasible after March 4.

  B. C. Forbes

  Country, Hurt, Taken

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• And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses degraded novels, self-abnegation has filled the Southeast Asian jungles with stone idols and corpses, and democracy has given us inflation and income tax.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Men, Democracies Have, Self

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• It seems to me that the least deserving recipients of wealth are inheritors. Further, there are many indications that inheritors often have trouble adjusting to their unearned inheritance. An inheritance tax would de facto help remedy this.

  Julian Robertson

  Inheritance, Adjusting, Helping

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• Why is our (US) government the only one in the civilized world with a stupid, short-term energy policy? Why do our elected officials consider a European or Japanese-type energy tax not only unpassable but undiscussable?

  Donella Meadows

  Stupid, Government, Energy

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• A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money.

  Ben Bernanke

  Cutting, Milton, Helicopters

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• In general, presidents and congressmen have very limited power to do good for the economy and awesome power to do bad. The best good thing that politicians can do for the economy is to stop doing bad. In part, this can be achieved through reducing taxes and economic regulation, and staying out of our lives.

  Walter E. Williams

  President, Regulation, Politician

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• Bush has legitimized a huge expansion of the welfare state, liberalizing immigration, and using force for democratization abroad. All the next Democratic president has to do to finish Bush's hard work is to raise taxes to pay for it all.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Hard Work, President, Pay

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• With all due respect to Speaker Hastert, trying to eliminate the IRS by adopting a national retail sales tax is a very dumb idea.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Ideas, Dumb, Trying

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• Anti-Tax fetishist Grover Norquist owns a bust of Ronald Reagan, who raised taxes 11 times.

  John Fugelsang

  Raised, Grover

  Twitter post from Nov 20, 2012

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• Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Cutting, America, Illustration

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