Charles Adams Quotes

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

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• Taxes suck. They really stink.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Really
  • Taxes
  • Suck

• The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Up
  • Taxes

• My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations in dollars because the IRS does not deal in bitcoins.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • You
  • Taken
  • Taxes

• All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Government
  • Army
  • Taxes

• Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Work
  • Cutting
  • Taxes

• Raise the taxes, and we find less money in our pockets. Lower the taxes, and we've got more money in those pockets, and we spend it on all kinds of things.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Money
  • Find
  • Taxes

• You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • You
  • Cutting
  • Create

• We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Attention
  • Government

• It has been possible to trace historically back to a very early age the taxes which were imposed on medicines, spices and similar substances in German towns. Thus, for instance, one finds that in the year 1500, thirteen, in 1540, thirty-eight, and in 1708, already one hundred and twenty vegetable oils are mentioned.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Age
  • Year
  • German

• There's no recovery on Main Street, I can tell you that for sure. And in a re - in an economy like this, we don't need to be raising anybody's taxes.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Economy
  • Recovery
  • Taxes

• By keeping the Internet free of discriminatory taxes, we've encouraged companies and consumers to do their business in the electronic marketplace, ... Congress originally enacted the moratorium to prevent thousands of state and local taxing jurisdictions from using the Internet as a cash cow. Rather than slow down the Internet with a slew of new taxes, we ought to extend the moratorium to allow the Web to reach its full potential.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Business
  • Free
  • Taxes

• Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.

  

  James Cook
  • Business
  • Decisions
  • Taxes

• Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • Right
  • Taxes
  • Evade

• Economists are almost unanimous in conceding that the land tax has no adverse side effects. ...Landowners ought to look at both sides of the coin. Applying a tax to land values also means removing other taxes. This would so improve the efficiency of a city that land values would go up more than the increase in taxes on land.

  

  William Vickrey
  • Mean
  • Taxes
  • Efficiency

• We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Taxes
  • Burden
  • Thinker

• Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

  

  William Hague
  • Party
  • Government
  • Taxes

• When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

  

  Bono U2
  • Government
  • Taxes
  • Schools

• To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Mind
  • Cutting
  • Taxes

• I was pulling in $80 a week after taxes working in a frozen yogurt store.

  

  Judge Reinhold
  • Working
  • Week
  • Taxes

• Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Strong

• I believe that the G20 should not interfere [foreign policy], because there are other platforms for that.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Believe
  • Should
  • Policy

• Accordingly if the devil should say, 'Do not drink,' you should reply to him, 'On this very account, because you forbid it, I shall drink, and what is more, I shall drink a generous amount. Thus one must always do the opposite of that which Satan prohibits. What do you think is my reason for drinking wine undiluted, talking freely, and eating more often, if it is not to torment and vex the devil who made up his mind to torment and vex me.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Thinking
  • Wine
  • Drink

• In societies where one sees a higher prevalence of 'modern values' - individualism, vitalism and self-expression - there's also higher reported job satisfaction.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Job
  • Values
  • Satisfaction

• We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

  

  Charles Adams
  • Taxes