Taxes Quotes - Page 40

• Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better.

  Nancy Johnson

  People, Bills, Helping

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• You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of his head to carry.

  Huey Long

  Men, Giving, Littles

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• Higher projected corporate and personal income tax receipts and lower public debt charges.

  Ralph Goodale

  Income, Debt, Higher

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• Eliminating the death tax is particularly important for the many small business owners and family farmers that call Central Washington home.

  Doc Hastings

  Home, Important, Small Business

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• Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.

  Todd Akin

  Dying, Reason, Should

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• The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined.

  Dick Armey

  Average, Shelter, Libertarian

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• The corruption of freedom is in proportion to the moral deterioration of the people. For a people who have lost their sense of self-respect have no need for freedom. And the income tax, by transferring the property of earners to the State, has disintegrated the moral fiber of Americans to such a degree that they do not even recognize the fact.

  Frank Chodorov

  Moral Fiber, Self, People

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.75, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Nevada.

  Kenny Guinn

  California, Doors, Pay

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• There have been brilliant satires about the tax bureaucracy before, from the Beatles song ‘The Taxman’ to the film ‘Harry’s War,’ but in some ways Jim Greenfield’s The Taxman Cometh outdoes them all. His tale of a little guy who can’t take it anymore is both compelling and timely, given the tax scandals we read about in Washington almost every day.

  John Fund

  Song, War, Guy

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• It's not rocket science. Hong Kong has 95% tax compliance, because it's code is only 4 pages long with a 15% flat tax.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Long, Pages, Rockets

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• The influence of (the national parks) is far beyond what is usually esteemed or usually considered. It has a relation to efficiency -- the working efficiency of the people, to their health, and particularly to their patriotism -- which would make the parks worth while, if there were not a cent of revenue in it, and if every visitor to the parks meant that the Government would have to pay a tax of $1 simply to get him there.

  J. Horace McFarland

  Government, People, National Parks

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• If it was true that lower taxes for the rich and more wealth to the wealthy leat to job creation, today we would be drowning in jobs.

  Nick Hanauer

  Jobs, Would Be, Today

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• The income tax is bad because it was conceived in class hatred, is an instrument of vengeance and plays right into the hands of the communists. It employs the vicious communist principle of taking from each according to his accumulation of the fruits of his labor and giving to others according to their needs, regardless of whether those needs are the result of indolence, or lack of pride, self-respect, personal dignity or other attributes of men.

  T. Coleman Andrews

  Pride, Men, Self

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• Rappers shouldn't have to file taxes because they itemize everything they own in songs.

  Damien Fahey

  Song, Rapper, Files

  Twitter post from Jul 05, 2012

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• Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. And the reason I am able to do these kind of movies is I have a tax shelter fund in Germany, and if you invest in a movie in Germany you get basically fifty percent back from the government.

  Uwe Boll

  Government, Germany, Shelter

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• Everyone who pays taxes has blood on their hands.

  Malachi Ritscher

  Blood, Hands, Pay

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• Church tax exemption means that we all drop our money in the collection boxes, whether we go to church or not and whether we are interested in the church or not. It is systematic and complete robbery, from which none of us escapes.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Mean, Church, Systematic

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• I will cut all state taxes by at least one third.

  Sonny Landham

  Cutting, States, All State

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• It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling.

  Bert Murray

  Shipping, Used, Inevitable

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• Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful.

  Charles M. Vest

  Helpful, Made, Revenue

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• People starve. The rulers consume too much with their taxes. That is why people starve.

  Laozi

  People, Taoism, Too Much

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• It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse of U.S. tax dollars.

  Russ Carnahan

  Hype, Abuse, President

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• We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.

  J. Irwin Miller

  Drug, Cost, Faces

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• Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour.

  Fritz Zwicky

  Home, Tired, House

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• We tax air passengers like cigarettes and alcohol - we impose sin taxes on travellers.

  Gordon Bethune

  Air, Alcohol, Sin

  "Sex, scotch and speed" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2002.

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