Taxes Quotes
  
  
  
	
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		The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Lyon Mackenzie
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I see the hatred exacted at Mr. Obama - you know, he lowered your taxes, killed your number one bad guy and got your guys out of Iraq - I don't understand why he seems to inflame people so much. You know, unless, unless there's a race problem.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Henry Rollins
			
			
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		Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Goldman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If you've been frugal during your life and tried to save, you're penalised by the tax system. You pay tax on your wages, your savings and even your private pension.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Geoff Capes
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There are lots of other things that affect state growth besides state taxes. However, the reason I look at taxes is because these are policy variables that can be changed by state governments in order to get better results than they otherwise had.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Arthur Laffer
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I dislike paying taxes as much as anyone, but yes, taxes are the price of civilization. There is no America without taxes. The question isn't, "Do we want to have taxes?" The question is, "How heavy is the burden, and who bears that burden"?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Cay Johnston
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		It's dark and it's divisive - deporting 11 million people, talking about law and order, calling every group of people in America names, talking about cutting taxes on the wealthy, feeling like Donald Trump can bring more nuclear weapons into the world - I mean, everything he's talked about is a form of change.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hillary Clinton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We cannot be afraid to touch it. We do have to examine new mechanisms like luxury taxes and in particular sporting criteria like squad limitations and fair transfer rules, to avoid player hoarding.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Aleksander Ceferin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why? He was a pragmatist, not doctrinaire. He saw problems emerging, and when his policies faltered he changed his views. Flexibility, not rigidity.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eugene Jarecki
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		People who thing that they are getting something for nothing, by having government provide what they would otherwise have to buy in the private market, are not only kidding themselves by ignoring the taxes that government has to take from them in order to give them the appearance of something for nothing.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Thomas Sowell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		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
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Rita Mae Brown