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Tax Quotes
"Currently, not only are Americans taxed on what they earn, but those assets are taxed again when they are passed on to a loved one."
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"If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase."
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"The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden."
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"New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut."
"Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income."
"Today, and I'm very strongly against tax increases."
"Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves."
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"The IRS is currently considering a rule that would make it easier for tax preparers to disclose the private information contained in tax returns - including name, address, Social Security number, employer, income, and charitable donations."
"Unfortunately the Republican tax cut will deny important revenues to many states facing their own deficits. This will create greater pressure for higher state and local taxes."
"The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor."
"No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax."
"One of the things we worry about when we cut the tax on gasoline is that it basically stimulates additional use."
"I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations."
"Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'"
"I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax."
"Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made."
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"Missouri remains a low tax, efficiently run state, according to all prominent national rankings."
"1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS."
"We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town."
"I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business."
"He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer."
"Currently, 94 out of 100 of us pay the Social Security tax all year round."
"It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of alternative minimum tax."
"It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation."
"Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax."
"As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and $140 billion in Federal, State, and local taxes."
"The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax."
"We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible."
"In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated."
"Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax."
"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."
"The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway."
"In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federal income tax return. This includes individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations."
"If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed."
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