Taxes Quotes - Page 30

• I don't go tanning anymore because Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning. McCain would never put a 10 percent tax on tanning. Because he's pale and would probably want to be tan.

  Nicole Polizzi

  Usa, Want, Tanning

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• The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.

  Laozi

  People, Too Much, Poverty

  Laozi (1999). “Laozi”

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• I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss.

  Dave Barry

  Reading, People, Trying

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, p.50, Ballantine Books

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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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• Recalling that a good chunk of the 47 percent who don't pay income taxes are Romney supporters - especially of course seniors (who might well 'believe they are entitled to heath care,' a position Romney agrees with), as well as many lower-income Americans (including men and women serving in the military) who think conservative policies are better for the country even if they're not getting a tax cut under the Romney plan. So Romney seems to have contempt not just for the Democrats who oppose him, but for tens of millions who intend to vote for him.

  William Kristol

  Senior, Country, Military

  "A Note on Romney’s Arrogant and Stupid Remarks". www.weeklystandard.com. September 18, 2012.

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• I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Actors, Form, Amazed

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• Americans tend not to be too enthusiastic about having their taxes raised again....But if the American people aren't going to accept it, if the politicians don't have the courage to raise taxes, what are we facing down the road?

  Judy Woodruff

  People, Politician, Accepting

  "A Brief History of the Media's Never-Ending Demand for Higher Taxes" by Rich Noyes, www.newsbusters.org. October 23, 2017.

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• I made 22 million in 14 years... with taxes, and travel and everything else, it gets blown out the window... which is why I still need to work.

  Boomer Esiason

  Travel, Years, Needs

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• To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Writing, Design, Style

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• These 3 topics will always generate 100+ comments of irrational/ridiculous people: Taxes, tipping, and spending on weddings.

  Ramit Sethi

  People, Entrepreneur, Topics

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• It's that time of year again, April 15, taxes. I know it's depressing, but just remember, you're paying for roads, bridges, hospitals, and an army to keep the nation free. Unfortunately that nation is Afghanistan.

  Bill Maher

  Depressing, Army, Remember You

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• What a day for the Tea Party people. Did you see that? America's parks and fairgrounds were lost in a sea of man-boobs. They were venting their anger and rage against taxes, which, of course, in most cases for them went down. Protesting their taxes went down, but you know, why let the truth spoil a perfectly good Klan rally.

  Bill Maher

  Party, Men, Perfectly Good

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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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• Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue; it yields nothing but discontent, disorder, disobedience; and such is the state of America, that after wading through up to your eyes in blood, you could only end up where you begun; that is, to tax where no revenue is to be found... all is confusion beyond it.

  Edmund Burke

  Eye, Thinking, Blood

  Edmund Burke (1919). “Speech on Conciliation with America”

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• Ronald Reagan was an anti-government, union-busting, race baiting, anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-intellectual, who cut rich people's taxes in half, had a incurable case of the military-industrial complex, and said Medicare was socialism that would destroy our freedom. Both sides really should stop pretending he was something other than the man most responsible for our decline.

  Bill Maher

  Military, Cutting, Gay

  "Maher: Reagan wrote GOP playbook" by Hadas Gold, www.politico.com. June 8, 2013.

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• Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may have been different, but the result would once again be disaster. What happened in America was really round two of those wars - the civil war of the British Empire, with the Hanoverians playing the part of the Stuarts, and the Americans the heirs of the revolutionaries, of Cromwell and of William III, the inheritors of a true British liberty, that had somehow got lost in its own motherland.

  Simon Schama

  War, Two, America

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• If they'd lower the taxes and get rid of the smog and clean up the traffic mess, I really believe I'd settle here until the next earthquake.

  Groucho Marx

  Believe, Earthquakes, Smog

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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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• 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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• Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

  Eileen Wilks

  Fear, Needs, Jam

  Eileen Wilks (2011). “Death Magic”, p.25, Penguin

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• I think that anybody who works and pays taxes ought to have a right for citizenship.

  Cruz Bustamante

  Thinking, Pay, Citizenship

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