Taxes Quotes - Page 29

• Tax deductible, That's what you are: Tax deductible. Just like my car, like a gift to local charity, you give my 1040 clarity

  Steven Zelin

  Giving, Car, Charity

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• I'm not so sure liberal democracy as we know it has reached its terminus. It's clear though, that many have genuinely lost confidence in the Australian political class. One reason is that we like to place enormous burdens of expectations on modern political leaders. To be sure such expectations aren't always honest. Just as we want better public services but object to paying the higher taxes that would make them possible, we often want leadership but only if there aren't hard choices with real consequences.

  Tim Soutphommasane

  Leadership, Real, Class

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• When I look at the Republicans, I am tempted to dismiss them as the Treason Party. Seriously, were a band of traitors to concoct a series of positions deliberately designed to weaken America, they would be hard pressed to beat the current GOP dogma - hobble education, starve the government by slashing taxes to the rich, kneecap attempts to jumpstart the economy by fixating on debt, invite corporations to dominate political discourse, balkanize the population by demonizing minorities and immigrants and let favored religions dictate social policy.

  Neil Steinberg

  Party, Government, America

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• You are smart people. You know that the tax cuts have not fueled record revenues. You know what it takes to establish causality. You know that the first order effect of cutting taxes is to lower tax revenues. We all agree that the ultimate reduction in tax revenues can be less than this first order effect, because lower tax rates encourage greater economic activity and thus expand the tax base. No thoughtful person believes that this possible offset more than compensated for the first effect for these tax cuts. Not a single one.

  Andrew Samwick

  Smart, Believe, Cutting

  "A New Year's Plea". voxbaby.blogspot.ru. January 03, 2007.

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• Wayne: I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them ..... the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves. .... I'm quite sure that the concept of a Government-run reservation .... seems to be what the socialists are working for now -- to have everyone cared for from cradle to grave ..... But you can't whine and bellyache 'cause somebody else got a break and you didn't, like those Indians are. We'll all be on a reservation soon if the socialists keep subsidizing groups like them with our tax money.

  John Wayne

  Running, Country, Government

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• For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising.

  Austan Goolsbee

  Investment, Smooth, Makers

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• When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture... It turns out, though, that most of what we make or design is actually aimed at a public that is there for something else. The design is important, but the design is not the point. Call it "public design"... Public design is for individuals who have to fill out our tax form, interact with our website or check into our hotel room despite the way it's designed, not because of it.

  Seth Godin

  Book, Thinking, Design

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• The IRS'll never sweat me or even put up a fight...
  Cause I'm sure I've paid more in taxes than you've made in yo' life!

  Ludacris

  Rap, Fighting, Sweat

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• Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going.

  Austan Goolsbee

  Cutting, Average, Years

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

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• I know the game, it's old and lame:
  You're holdin' a flame for my name and my fame.
  Livin' like Givens schemin' on Tyson,
  But she got lucky 'cause he was a nice one.
  But I ain't nice and I don't play that,
  If it ain't tax, I don't pay that.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Nice, Rap, Flames

  Song: They Want Money

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• It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits.

  John F. Kennedy

  Jobs, Party, Long

  Address to the Economic Club of New York, delivered 14 December 1962, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• Unless you reduce the long-term spending burden, you cannot cut taxes in any lasting way, but can only shift the burden of taxes from the present to the future.

  Peter George Peterson

  Cutting, Long, Political

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• The reality is (Clinton's) so-called tax cut is basically giving money to people who largely don't pay taxes, so that it's really spending rather than a tax cut, ... This Week.

  Phil Gramm

  Cutting, Reality, Giving Money

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• The people who are having the hard time right now are middle-income Americans. Under the president's policies, middle-income Americans have been buried. They're just being crushed. Middle-income Americans have seen their income come down by $4,300. This is a tax in and of itself. I'll call it the economy tax. It's been crushing.

  Mitt Romney

  Crush, Hard Times, People

  First presidential Obama-Romney debate at the University of Denver, Colorado, abcnews.go.com. October 3, 2012.

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• I want to make it very clear that this middle-class tax cut, in my view, is central to any attempt we're going to make to have a short-term economic strategy and a long-term fairness strategy, which is part of getting this country going again.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Cutting, Class

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• The government is also looking at further benefits including enhanced capital allowances; the use of Tax Incremental Finance; and extra help from UK Trade and Investment on inward investment and trade opportunities.

  Andy Sawford

  Opportunity, Extra Help, Government

  "The budget: we pick the key points for local authorities" by Andy Sawford, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2011.

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• I shall easily show that it is impossible to tax further, ruinous to be always borrowing and not enough to confine ourselves to measures of economy.

  Charles Alexandre de Calonne

  Revolution, Impossible, Enough

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• All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.

  H. L. Mencken

  Zoos, Freedom, Political

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.365, Vintage

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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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• You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.

  Barack Obama

  Dimes, Increase, Tax Increases

  "Without evidence, Wash. Times claimed Obama "reneged" on campaign promises" by Nathan Tabak, www.mediamatters.org. April 8, 2009.

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• Whatever your issue is, whether it's racism or homophobia or policy issues or taxes or urban decay or health care, you're not going to go anywhere with it if we don't focus on the concentration of power.

  Ralph Nader

  Issues, Racism, Focus

  "Candidate Nader" by Ken Silverstein, www.motherjones.com. July/August 2000.

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• We will lower the tax burden on middle class Americans by asking the very wealthy to pay their fair share. Middle class taxpayers will have a choice between a children's tax credit or a significant reduction in their income tax rate.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Class, Choices

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• I'm Bill Clinton and I think you deserve a change. That's why I've offered a plan to get the economy moving again, starting with a middle-class tax cut.

  William J. Clinton

  Moving, Cutting, Thinking

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• From New Hampshire forward, for reasons that absolutely mystified me, the press thought the most important issue in the race was the middle class tax cut. I never did meet any voter who thought that.

  William J. Clinton

  Cutting, Race, Class

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• Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.

  Jack Gould

  Sex, Television

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