Taxes Quotes
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Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.
Alexander Haig
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Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.
Caldwell Esselstyn
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When you're in an economic downturn, what you want is to create jobs and economic growth. And the recipe isn't Republican or Democrat. It's low taxes, low spending, less regulation, free trade.
Nancy Pfotenhauer
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We faced a crisis caused by the Federal Reserve, the corporate tax system, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the Community Reinvestment Act. But the response of many people in Washington was to blame it on capitalism.
David Boaz
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Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.
Eileen Wilks
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Unless you reduce the long-term spending burden, you cannot cut taxes in any lasting way, but can only shift the burden of taxes from the present to the future.
Peter George Peterson
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The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
Benjamin Cardozo
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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
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It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling.
Bert Murray
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I'm not going to tell people that I will raise your incomes and not your taxes, and not mean it, because I don't want to see the kind of struggle that the middle class is going through exemplified by these promises that would raise taxes and make it much more difficult for many, many Americans to get ahead and stay ahead. That is not my agenda.
Hillary Clinton
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Congress has all sorts of rules, hedge fund managers, private equity managers, executives, movie stars, fall into that allow them to escape or defer into the future not paying their taxes. And if you can defer your tax into the future, it's the best deal in the world, because you don't just get to eat your cake and have it too. You get to eat your cake and have a bigger cake.
Hillary Clinton
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Everyone must be equal before the law, abide by it, pay their taxes and bear the punishment should they break the law.
Vladimir Putin
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I think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can get institutions like schools and hospitals functioning better, well that's obviously good for the overall productiveness of our society.
Tony Abbott
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Even though we still don't know any precise details, we're already making it clear that some proposals like a border tax or "buy-American" regulations are heading in a protectionist direction. The Americans' sudden proposal to classify certain steel products as national security-related is also something that we find highly problematic.
Cecilia Malmstrom
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I do not want you ever to initiate any action for any refunds of taxes without first consulting me and presenting the matter fully to me so that I may judge whether it is an honorable and ethical action to take, not simply legally, but according to my own personal standards.
Ernest Hemingway
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If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.
Milton Friedman
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Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.
William Osler
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I am committed to fewer taxes, many investments, for good and new jobs, and growth which will bring better salaries and higher pensions in an efficient state.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis
