Tax Quotes
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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.
Arthur Melvin Okun -
There’s nothing more fun than having a bad cold, feeling like death warmed up and trying to get a tax return together.
Wreckless Eric
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A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal enjoyments, it only shifts expenses from one to another.But when it encroaches on productive consumption it diminishes public riches.
Antoine Destutt de Tracy -
If you stimulate the economy by means of a tax cut, the people that you tend to be benefiting are the better off.
Judy Woodruff -
Tax reform has been a congressional priority for decades. It should be a bipartisan issue. I don't know why anyone in Congress would want their constituents to pay more.
Matt Gaetz -
If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax?
Tony Abbott -
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.
Arthur Laffer -
Anyone who's ever filed a tax return or visited the Department of Motor Vehicles understands that government does two things well: spend our money and waste our time.
Edwin Feulner
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People were holding high denomination notes to keep tax unaccounted for money. Some sectors like real estate were using cash to avoid tax.
Urjit Patel -
The bias tax is actually a loss in economy.
Vivienne Ming -
We will not be able to go without a tax cut for the middle class.
Edmund Stoiber -
The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money
Nicholas von Hoffman -
Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.
George Bernard Shaw -
A tobacco industry has been a fairly linear and predictable industry. You know what's going to happen every year. You know from time to time you are going to have a tax increase, you are going to have regulatory restriction, but, as it applies to everybody, I think we are doing very well. But now it's much more technology-driven. Competitors other than our traditional competitors can come in, whether legitimate or fly-by-night ones, and you have to anticipate all those things. The whole organization has to gear up to this new reality and these new competitive rules around it.
Andre Calantzopoulos
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We will start by providing relief from the unfair marriage penalty tax.
Dennis Hastert -
We want to repeal the ObamaCare tax. We want to save middle class families from European health care. And that's what we're going to do as a party and that's what Mitt Romney will do on day one.
Reince Priebus -
Tax and Tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.
Harry Hopkins -
Historical evidence and simulation analysis are consistent with the idea that tax cuts that are not financed by immediate spending cuts will have little positive impact on growth.
Andrew Samwick -
All that stuff with the tabloids is a kind of luxury tax I pay for all the good things I do in my life.
Ethan Hawke -
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
George Sewell
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That's more than tax professionals charge for their own fee.
Ed Slott -
Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.
Paul Ryan -
Inflation has ... become the cruelest tax, destroying the value of the dollar and adding new costs to every purchase.
Ella T. Grasso -
The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.
John Maynard Keynes