Taxes Quotes
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If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised... This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.
Salmon Portland Chase
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Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own.
Nancy Gibbs
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According to our estimates, the Hungarians working in the U.K. altogether pay more contributions and taxes than the benefits that they get. So we belong to the world of the fair working people.
Viktor Orban
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Everyone wants the rich to pay more in taxes.
Michael Arrington
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Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.
Adam McKay
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
Lao Tzu
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In addition to reining in spending, taxes, tolls and fees, let's rein in how much the state borrows.
Larry Hogan
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
Yannick Noah
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Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.
Lars Feld
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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
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
Sadie Frost
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The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.
Karl Rove
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Congress should know how to levy taxes, and if it doesn't know how to collect them, then a man is a fool to pay the taxes.
J. P. Morgan
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
H. L. Mencken
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You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.'
Harold Ford, Jr.
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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
