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Tax Quotes
"Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before."
"It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services... but also really make you wonder: who is City Hall looking out for?"
"Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic."
"A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax."
"The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment of other priorities and does little to put our nation's fiscal house in order."
"We all know what the problems are: it's tax and spend. One party will tax and spend, the other party won't tax but will spend. It's both of them together."
"I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year."
"A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state."
"I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for."
"We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones."
"I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?"
"I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that."
"An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt."
"Tax breaks can serve a vital role in keeping and bringing jobs to our state; however, without accountability, they are little more than loopholes at taxpayers' expense."
"Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas."
"If you increase taxes now on - at any level, it's going to make it harder to create jobs And we've lost 2 1/2 million jobs since the stimulus package passed. We're at 9.6 unemployment. So I don't think we tax too little, I think we spend too much."
"For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded."
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"Tax cuts are an investment in working families."
"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."
"Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring."
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