Tax Quotes
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Tens of billions ... are going into the pockets of tens of thousands of tax preparers who ... love complexity as much as the rest of us hate it
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Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.
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We must fight against tax evasion but also defend the rights of tax evaders, or companies that make mistakes.
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We need a tax code that recognizes that working families need help, ... They don't need the federal government picking their pocket and taking money out of their account just because they're married.
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Let's take the nine states that have no income tax and compare them with the nine states with the highest income tax rates in the nation. If you look at the economic metrics over the last decade for both groups, the zero-income-tax-rate states outperform the highest-income-tax-rate states by a fairly sizable amount.
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Most of them benefit businesses, things like research and development tax credits. But people will also benefit, too, from things like - the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit have been made permanent. They predominantly help lower-income families.
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If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax?
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The pandering and ignorance-across-party-lines represented by the John McCain- Hillary Clinton united front for a temporary reduction in the gasoline tax should make Americans hold their heads in their hands and moan [...] Please. This is embarrassing. It makes me long for the good old days of debating about flag pins on the lapel.
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We also need to encourage Americans to become more fiscally responsible themselves. We can do this by redesigning our tax system into an expenditure tax with a single flat rate. ... We have to substantially reduce the size and scope of the federal government, fundamentally increase the role of the states in choosing their own practices, and bring decision-making closer to the people, not to unelected administrators. These steps are crucial to getting our nation on a path of fiscal, political and constitutional responsibility.
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Yesterday the IRS announced that obese Americans are entitled to certain tax breaks. Apparently, under the new rules, you're allowed to claim two or more chins as dependents.
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Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.
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Mates help each other; they do not tax each other.
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LOTTERY TICKET: a voluntary tax paid by people who are extremely bad at math.
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The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates, you could increase the efficiency of the tax code and create more incentives for people to invest.
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I am going to begin now a practice of not making recommendations on specific tax and spending proposals.
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European lotteries are the tax on fools.
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Businesses large and small shouldn't have to check the expiration date of a tax provision to see if it's still good.
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We will start by providing relief from the unfair marriage penalty tax.
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I was an international tax specialist. Yeah, I was an international man of mystery and tax specialist.
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I don't think any Australian will ever forget, there will never be a Carbon Tax under a government I lead.
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High tax rates are followed by attempts of ingenious men to beat them as surely as surely as snow is followed by little boys on sleds.
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I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?
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I think companies trying to exercise a so-called inversion should be hit with an exit tax. So I want to change behaviors, and I am deeply distressed about quarterly capitalism, because I think it is causing businesses to make decisions that are not helping the long-term profitability of American corporations or the success of our economy.
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Mr. Crafts' report was nothing but an accounting exercise. It doesn't show anything about proportionality or uniformity of the property tax system in New Hampshire.
