300 Quotes on Tax

• Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour.

  Author: Fritz Zwicky

• Now, I do think when we move into 2012 and '13 when, presumably, the economy is on firmer ground, I would allow the tax rates for upper-income individuals to revert back to where they were before the cuts in the 1990s. I think at that point it makes perfect sense.

  Author: Mark Zandi

• The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

  Author: Herman Wouk

• Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

  Author: Herman Wouk

• The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself.

  Author: Carter Woodson

• Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• Over the past two years, the House has passed more than 50 measures focused on stimulating the economy and expanding opportunities for American workers. The tax relief provisions in this package have been an important part of our pro-growth agenda.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it.

  Author: Meg Whitman

• Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic.

  Author: John Whiting

• I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.

  Author: Allen West

• Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which is a major manufacturing and a major agricultural district.

  Author: Jerry Weller

• The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.

  Author: Jerry Weller

• Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty.

  Author: Jerry Weller

• Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.

  Author: Bill Weld

• It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.

  Author: Robert Welch

• We've been able to access deals that under our former relationship with Disney - with tax advantages and strategic partners - that we just weren't able to do.

  Author: Harvey Weinstein

• For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

  Author: Daniel Webster

• Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country.

  Author: Andrew Webber

• Virginia 's tax system needs to be fixed. The time to act is now. Do not send me any more studies. Do not send me another piecemeal approach that confuses tinkering with real reform.

  Author: Mark Warner

• I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense.

  Author: John Warner

• Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

  Author: Andy Warhol

• So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'

  Author: Jim Wallis

• You can't be evangelical and associate yourself with Jesus and what he says about the poor and just have no other domestic concerns than tax cuts for wealthy people.

  Author: Jim Wallis

• The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

  Author: Judith Viorst

• Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful.

  Author: Charles Vest

• I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend.

  Author: Jesse Ventura

• The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

  Author: Bill Vaughan

• What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

  Author: Mark Twain

• Once the housing market begins to recover, I would phase out the mortgage tax deduction.

  Author: Joshua Tucker

• Today, and I'm very strongly against tax increases.

  Author: Donald Trump

• If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.

  Author: Pat Toomey

• In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

• So we want to change the tax system. We want it to be fair, and we want to see some tax relief because people do three things when they get a little extra money in their pocket: They save it or they spend it or they invest it.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

• The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

• Yet, individuals and corporations in Puerto Rico pay no federal income tax.

  Author: Dick Thornburgh

• The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.

  Author: Mac Thornberry

• Tax cuts are an investment in working families.

  Author: Tommy Thompson

• Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.

  Author: Bennie Thompson

• Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families.

  Author: Ellen Tauscher

• Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

  Author: Jonathan Swift

• No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had.

  Author: Donald Sutherland

• If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

  Author: Robert Strauss

• Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax.

  Author: Michael Steele

• My legislation, the Simple Savings Tax Relief Act of 2005, simply eliminates the taxation of interest earned in savings accounts, such as passbook savings accounts or bank certificates of deposit.

  Author: Cliff Stearns

• We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid.

  Author: John Spratt

• We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

  Author: Herbert Spencer

• Our mission, is to publish books on social and cultural issues, including books on law related to those areas. We are not looking for books on, say, tax policy, etc.

  Author: Thomas Spence

• The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

  Author: Thomas Sowell

• Tax rates should never be raised in some brackets without being raised in all brackets.

  Author: Bradley Smith

• Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

  Author: Mark Skousen

• I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

  Author: Edith Sitwell

• What I advise clients is, sell, pay the tax and be happy. Don't ask me to find a replacement unless it's land.

  Author: Mike Simpson

• Finally, the House is working to require a comprehensive federal review of IRS regulations with a follow-up report to Congress on possible actions to reduce the tax paperwork burden imposed on small businesses.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.

  Author: William Simon

• My opponents attitude is, 'If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it and when it stops, subsidize it.

  Author: Rob Simmons

• The 1993 Social Security tax penalizes seniors who have planned for their retirement through savings, investment and hard work. That's wrong, and that's why the double tax on Social Security must end.

  Author: Rob Simmons

• There's been a lot said about Social Security reform. What has been left out of the debate is the double tax on Social Security benefits. I believe it's time to get rid of a tax that punishes seniors and discourages work and retirement savings.

  Author: Rob Simmons

• Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses to grow, which has brought in additional tax revenue to help pay off the debt.

  Author: Bill Shuster

• Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.

  Author: John Shadegg

• Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

  Author: George Sewell

• Sadly, this is the same old Republican story of Robin Hood in reverse - tax cuts for the rich while programs for average and low income Americans suffer.

  Author: Jose Serrano

• Moreover, from reforming the tax code to our immigration system, to commonsense legal reform, President Bush put America on notice that he will continue fighting to make the country, and the world, a better place for future generations.

  Author: Jim Sensenbrenner

• I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

  Author: Pete Seeger

• I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second.

  Author: Bobby Scott

• Voters did say 'repeal health care,' they did say 'reduce the size of government.' But not a single one of them from the tea party or anywhere said 'give tax breaks to the wealthiest.'

  Author: Charles Schumer

• We certainly could have voted on making the middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts for working families permanent had the Republicans not insisted that the only way they would support those tax breaks is if we also added $700 billion to the deficit to give tax breaks to the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. That's what was really disturbing.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax.

  Author: Otto Schily

• Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.

  Author: Bob Schaffer

• We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.

  Author: Joe Scarborough

• But only 'rich' people by definition have the 'extra' money to buy things and invest to create economic growth. Do we really want to tax that 'extra' money away - and give it to the government to spend? Does that make any economic sense outside of politics and our emotional desire to make everyone suffer equally through these tough times?

  Author: Terry Savage

• The real reason to oppose increasing tax rates on the wealthy is that it's a good bet they could do more to help the economy if they keep their money rather than have their earnings confiscated by the government and spent on another round of stimulus.

  Author: Terry Savage

• I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.

  Author: Larry Sabato

• One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.

  Author: Jim Ryun

• Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring.

  Author: Paul Ryan

• Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.

  Author: Paul Ryan

• Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been better to have smaller tax cuts in order to keep down the deficits.

  Author: Tim Russert

• Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq.

  Author: Tim Russert

• Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

  Author: Mike Royko

• It has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the years in raising almost all of our elderly citizens out of poverty.

  Author: James Roosevelt

• Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.

  Author: Andy Rooney

• Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant.

  Author: Christina Romer

• Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.

  Author: Christina Romer

• The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

  Author: Will Rogers

• We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

  Author: Will Rogers

• The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.

  Author: Anita Roddick

• You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.

  Author: David Rockefeller

• In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community.

  Author: John Robinson

• I think the average citizen is going to see no less than a $1,500 or more increase in what it's going to cost for basic living next year,... Taking sales tax off food isn't going to take care of all of that, but I think it's a way that we can help.

  Author: Ann Robinson

• What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Security reform passed, that he'll have tax reform passed, that he'll have conservative judges on the courts.

  Author: Pat Robertson

• According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.

  Author: Bob Riley

• We are all are equal, but some pay higher tax rates than others.

  Author: Jeff Rich

• Number one I think we should impose a fee or a tax on the transportation of trash per mile.

  Author: Ed Rendell

• I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.

  Author: Ed Rendell

• You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.

  Author: John Redwood

• Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

  Author: John Ray

• The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.

  Author: Charles Rangel

• Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.

  Author: Jim Ramstad

• As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

  Author: Jim Ramstad

• Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

  Author: Ramakrishna

• Well, you know, we've got a lot of stimulus in the economy already from the tax cut, from the lowered interest rates, and also from the refinancing of mortgages.

  Author: Franklin Raines

• Barack Obama is the worst president in history. In my generation, we'll inherit a weakened country, drug cartels in Mexico, tax cartels in D.C. What's happened to America? I love Arizona. I was raised right. Somebody has to go to Washington and knock the hell out of the place.

  Author: Ben Quayle

• He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer.

  Author: William Proxmire

• We pass bills authorizing improvements and grants. But when it comes time to pay for these programs, we'd rather put the country's money toward tax breaks for the wealthy than for police officers who are protecting our communities.

  Author: David Price

• Tax cuts continue to benefit families, seniors, and small business owners, as evidenced by unparalleled economic growth in Nevada and across the country.

  Author: Jon Porter

• I don't go tanning anymore because Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning. McCain would never put a 10 percent tax on tanning. Because he's pale and would probably want to be tan.

  Author: Nicole Polizzi

• When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

  Author: Plato

• Under Obama, our federal tax dollars can now be used to fund abortion all over the world. With the stroke of a pen, abortion essentially became a U.S. foreign export.

  Author: Rick Perry

• And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will demand change.

  Author: John Perkins

• If I tax them, in fact, I'm not taxing the capitalists, I am taxing the people who have saved, trusted. It was very controversial, those sorts of things. But finally, it worked out.

  Author: Shimon Peres

• Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when Ronald Reagan cut marginal tax rates, when President Bush imposed those tax cuts, they actually generated economic growth. They expanded the economy. They expand tax revenues.

  Author: Mike Pence

• The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.

  Author: Mike Pence

• The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the tax cuts took effect.

  Author: Mike Pence

• Tax what you burn not what you earn.

  Author: Christine Pelosi

• When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.

  Author: Ron Paul

• Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.

  Author: Ron Paul

• 1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.

  Author: Ron Paul

• A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

  Author: Isabel Paterson

• 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.

  Author: Sarah Palin

• For my constituents, owning a home is the culmination of many years of hard work and the realization of the American Dream. At no time should a local entity take those years of hard work solely to increase their tax revenue.

  Author: Solomon Ortiz

• Our intention is to give people, however you might stylize it, a tax cut or a pay raise.

  Author: Paul O'Neill

• The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and Education appropriations bill by reducing the size of the tax cut.

  Author: David Obey

• I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

  Author: Barack Obama

• In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

  Author: Barack Obama

• Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.

  Author: Grover Norquist

• I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

  Author: Randy Newman

• It's time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children.

  Author: Bill Nelson

• I think they got caught up in how much money they could get from each of the city governments as far as tax rebates. But that stuff works when you make money. It's a little bit phantom money.

  Author: David Neeleman

• But what is striking about this, in a town that often talks about tax cuts, we could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code.

  Author: Richard Neal

• It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people.

  Author: Richard Neal

• It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of alternative minimum tax.

  Author: Richard Neal

• Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts, I have proposed eliminating, getting rid of the alternative minimum tax.

  Author: Richard Neal

• People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes.

  Author: Richard Neal

• The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.

  Author: Richard Neal

• The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.

  Author: Richard Neal

• Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.

  Author: Richard Neal

• The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code's complexity are the ones that put together what they now call a convoluted monstrosity. They put it into effect.

  Author: Richard Neal

• We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.

  Author: Richard Neal

• More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from the reduction in the marriage penalty, and more than 1.1 million parents will have the advantage of an increased child tax credit.

  Author: Tim Murphy

• I would go to them and I would explain this is the price of going forward. We're going to move ahead in all these other areas. We're moving ahead in tax reform and GST, we are moving ahead on trade, but this will not be done at the cost of the environment.

  Author: Brian Mulroney

• America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

  Author: Bill Moyers

• Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

  Author: Dick Morris

• The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief.

  Author: Dick Morris

• It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services... but also really make you wonder: who is City Hall looking out for?

  Author: Laura Miller

• Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money.

  Author: Laura Miller

• It is no secret that our tax code is drastically outdated and burdensome to all Americans. Fortunately, more and more people are aware daily of the inequities that arise from things such as the estate tax, and it has come to the forefront of Congress' agenda.

  Author: Jeff Miller

• People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what they were reading was bought and paid for with their tax dollars.

  Author: George Miller

• A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

  Author: Andrew Mellon

• We not only heard it before 20 years ago, before George Bush in 2001 passed his tax relief, before in 2003 the tax relief were past, we were told they were dead. Before we provided prescription drugs for Medicare, we were told it wasn't going to happen.

  Author: Ken Mehlman

• At the same time, Republicans are pushing a $70 billion tax package that will overwhelmingly benefit the most wealthy Americans and actually increases the deficit by $16 billion.

  Author: Marty Meehan

• The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.

  Author: Marty Meehan

• Eastern Washington families and businesses should be able to deduct every penny of state and local sales tax they pay throughout the year from their federal tax bill, especially when people in most states are deducting their state income taxes.

  Author: Cathy McMorris

• In providing this $5,000 tax credit for those purchasing rural homes, we're offering an important incentive to encourage people to live in smaller communities - and perhaps even stay in a community they might be considering leaving.

  Author: John McHugh

• But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate.

  Author: Jim McDermott

• The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence.

  Author: John McCain

• Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.

  Author: Yukihiro Matsumoto

• Who's on the case when it comes to the flat tax?

  Author: Joshua Marshall

• We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated.

  Author: Joe Manchin

• What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work.

  Author: Peter MacKay

• The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there - from tax policy, to foreign policy; from individual rights, to neighborhood security - are things that Jefferson Davis and his people believed in.

  Author: Trent Lott

• Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'

  Author: Russell Long

• A tax loophole is something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.

  Author: Russell Long

• You replace it by 23 percent tax, a frank, transparent tax embedded in the cost at retail, and everybody gets to takes their whole check home. And the average income earner gets a 50 percent increase in take-home pay.

  Author: John Linder

• Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors.

  Author: Blanche Lincoln

• Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.

  Author: Rush Limbaugh

• Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that?

  Author: Rush Limbaugh

• Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.

  Author: Ron Lewis

• On my income tax 1040 it says "Check this box if you are blind." I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

  Author: Tom Lehrer

• One of the things we worry about when we cut the tax on gasoline is that it basically stimulates additional use.

  Author: Edward Lazear

• I say I don't need a tax cut. It will not do me any more good. I can't buy more, I can't eat more, I can't do more, and I want it distributed among the ordinary people who work every day.

  Author: Frank Lautenberg

• Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class.

  Author: Rick Larsen

• I strongly support tax relief for the middle class.

  Author: Rick Larsen

• I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

  Author: Lewis Lapham

• If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.

  Author: Walter Lang

• The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.

  Author: Jon Kyl

• The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.

  Author: Dennis Kucinich

• I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.

  Author: Jack Kingston

• New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut.

  Author: Craig Kilborn

• The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.

  Author: Alan Keyes

• We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts.

  Author: Alan Keyes

• Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

  Author: Charles Kettering

• The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.

  Author: John Kennedy

• Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.

  Author: Jack Kemp

• The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level.

  Author: Ric Keller

• Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better.

  Author: Nancy Johnson

• It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.

  Author: Ken Jennings

• Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.

  Author: William Jenkins

• The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment of other priorities and does little to put our nation's fiscal house in order.

  Author: Jim Jeffords

• My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

  Author: Glenda Jackson

• Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math; parents must push and help their children to meet this goal.

  Author: Ernest Istook

• Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.

  Author: Jane Hull

• We shall tax and tax, and spend and spend, and elect and elect.

  Author: Harry Hopkins

• Missouri remains a low tax, efficiently run state, according to all prominent national rankings.

  Author: Bob Holden

• Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.

  Author: Charlton Heston

• Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.

  Author: Auberon Herbert

• Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.

  Author: Robert Heinlein

• The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

  Author: Denis Healey

• New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed.

  Author: J. Hayworth

• In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime.

  Author: Doc Hastings

• In 2001, Congress passed much needed tax relief to allow Americans to keep more of their hard earned money and spend it as they see fit - rather than how the federal government sees fit.

  Author: Doc Hastings

• With my support, the House of Representatives recently voted to permanently repeal the death tax so that family farms and businesses can be passed down to children and grandchildren.

  Author: Doc Hastings

• With the permanent elimination of this tax, farmers and business owners will have the sense of security they need to plan for the financial future of their business or farm and their family.

  Author: Doc Hastings

• One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements.

  Author: Dennis Hastert

• The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees - just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer.

  Author: Dennis Hastert

• Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.

  Author: Dennis Hastert

• Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

  Author: Albert Hart

• While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

  Author: Tom Harkin

• As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and $140 billion in Federal, State, and local taxes.

  Author: Luis Gutierrez

• Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes, every tax when they make a purchase.

  Author: Luis Gutierrez

• Nevada once again has shown double digit increases in tax revenue... Nevada continues to show economic stability with its desirable business climate and booming tourism sector.

  Author: Kenny Guinn

• The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.

  Author: Alma Guillermoprieto

• The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet.

  Author: Martin Gross

• Bringing the troops home is necessary not just for the future of Iraq, but also for the people of the United States. We must stop the hemorrhaging of tax dollars that could go to meet our Nation's vital domestic needs.

  Author: Raul Grijalva

• Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.

  Author: Alan Greenspan

• It's fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy.

  Author: Bob Graham

• I would give relief from the first $10,000 of the payroll tax. I would allow small businesses to accelerate depreciation so they would have an incentive to buy now rather than defer. I would also give to the states $40 billion of relief.

  Author: Bob Graham

• For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising.

  Author: Austan Goolsbee

• I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. I don't think the evidence supports that.

  Author: Austan Goolsbee

• If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.

  Author: Austan Goolsbee

• In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federal income tax return. This includes individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations.

  Author: Virgil Goode

• Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

  Author: Barry Goldwater

• The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

  Author: Barry Goldwater

• If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm for it.

  Author: Alexi Giannoulias

• Why would we want to keep a tax cut that's failed? Why would we not want to go back to the Clinton tax code? And why would we not want to help every family more with a health-care plan like mine? Let's help average people. Let's be Democrats.

  Author: Dick Gephardt

• What is not fair now is that corporations pay less and less tax, which means that you and I pay more because we're rooted somewhere, they've got our address, right?

  Author: Susan George

• The world is likely to view any temporary extension of the income tax cuts for the top two percent as a prelude to a long-term or permanent extension, and that would hurt economic recovery as well by undermining confidence that we're prepared to make a commitment today to bring down our future deficits.

  Author: Timothy Geithner

• When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

  Author: Bill Gates

• 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.'

  Author: Harold Ford

• And it would be fair. Everyone will pay the same tax and it will eliminate tax cheaters and corporate shenanigans.

  Author: Steve Forbes

• We will attract more people to Kentucky by lowering our income tax rate. In fact, lowering the income tax rate is the single most important thing we can do to create opportunity.

  Author: Ernie Fletcher

• Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year.

  Author: Mike Fitzpatrick

• Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.

  Author: Mike Fitzpatrick

• The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.

  Author: Mike Fitzpatrick

• I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year.

  Author: Carly Fiorina

• And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through.

  Author: Geraldine Ferraro

• It is my belief that tax credits only go to people who are making money, and they generally keep it.

  Author: Diane Feinstein

• I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush.

  Author: Jerry Falwell

• A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.

  Author: Lane Evans

• I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money.

  Author: Daniel Evans

• Now on a personal level with things like the California Tax Commission... I really think if people started banding together and saying no to this it could snowball and that could really help.

  Author: Joe Eszterhas

• For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

  Author: Ralph Emerson

• The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

  Author: Albert Einstein

• I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year.

  Author: Michael Easley

• Unfortunately the Republican tax cut will deny important revenues to many states facing their own deficits. This will create greater pressure for higher state and local taxes.

  Author: Dick Durbin

• I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways.

  Author: Griffin Dunne

• Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.

  Author: Jennifer Dunn

• To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

  Author: Benjamin Disraeli

• Nobody in this country realizes that cap-and-trade is a tax - and it's a great big one.

  Author: John Dingell

• I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for.

  Author: Jonathan Dimbleby

• The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.

  Author: Thomas Dewar

• Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.

  Author: Bill Delahunt

• Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services.

  Author: Bill Delahunt

• Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income.

  Author: Mark Dayton

• The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't.

  Author: Peter Davies

• Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.

  Author: Tom Daschle

• I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

  Author: Noel Coward

• While tax refunds amount to substantial income for many Americans, current IRS rules do not allow taxpayers to directly deposit their refund into more than one account.

  Author: Jim Cooper

• But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.

  Author: Jilly Cooper

• I'd cap the total amount of income taxes paid by Americans to no more than 25 percent and tax all income only once.

  Author: Cesar Conda

• The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax us citizens for our carbon footprints.

  Author: John Coleman

• Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians very much wanted to push in the United States without success but in Iraq they do it.

  Author: Juan Cole

• Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used.

  Author: Tom Coburn

• Currently, 94 out of 100 of us pay the Social Security tax all year round.

  Author: Nick Clooney

• A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax.

  Author: Nick Clooney

• Countries that will not tax their elite who expect us to come in and help them serve their people are just not going to get the kind of help from us that historically they may have.

  Author: Hillary Clinton

• Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

  Author: Hillary Clinton

• The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

  Author: Arthur Clarke

• There is no such thing as a good tax.

  Author: Winston Churchill

• Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

  Author: Nicolas Chamfort

• On the issues that I care deeply about - the environment, Roe vs. Wade, the war in Iraq, with no weapons of mass destruction, the tax cuts that are now leading to deficits, I've got some deep issues with the president.

  Author: Lincoln Chafee

• You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it's going to be spent.

  Author: Steve Chabot

• Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending.

  Author: Steve Chabot

• Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

  Author: Camillo Cavour

• Not to be blasphemous, but I wonder if even the Holy Trinity understands the American tax code.

  Author: Maurice Carroll

• It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse of U.S. tax dollars.

  Author: Russ Carnahan

• In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the world economy. Ultimately, I would love to see a flat tax.

  Author: Eric Cantor

• We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible.

  Author: Peter Camejo

• From where I am sitting much of the country now sees the President the way I have seen him since the campaign. He is an ambitious leftist, with little understanding of economics, and with far-reaching goals to create significant and irreversible growth of government and redistribution of wealth through dramatic changes in tax, regulatory, and spending policies.

  Author: Charles Calomiris

• Income tax filing and payment day should be moved from April 15th to November 1st so it can be close to election day. People ought to have their tax bills fresh in mind as they go to vote.

  Author: Steven Calabresi

• Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.

  Author: Jeb Bush

• To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

  Author: Edmund Burke

• Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.

  Author: Art Buchwald

• The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq.

  Author: Sherrod Brown

• I am neither a free-trade man, willing to collect all the money we have to raise by direct tax upon the people, nor am I willing to lay a tax simply for protection when the Government does not need the money.

  Author: Joseph Brown

• Something got screwed up in terms of your priorities if you think it's more important to get rid of the dividend tax than it is to take care of 11 million kids.

  Author: David Broder

• When people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were going to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense.'

  Author: John Breaux

• There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

  Author: Wernher Braun

• Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.

  Author: Carol Braun

• The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.

  Author: Kit Bond

• The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.

  Author: Kit Bond

• The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer and simpler and to eliminate the harmful drag this tax has on the economy.

  Author: Kit Bond

• We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.

  Author: Kit Bond

• If we don't act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the death tax is phased out in 2010 but comes back in full force in 2011. That is a ridiculous and untenable policy.

  Author: Kit Bond

• I talked to a lot of employers who just are, are fearful of what's coming next out of Washington. It's all the spending, it's all the debt. It's their national energy tax, they want to call it cap and trade - more mandates, higher costs, more taxes. Their healthcare bill - more mandates, higher costs, higher taxes.

  Author: John Boehner

• If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase.

  Author: Matt Blunt

• The President and the Democrats on Congress have exploited the financial crisis to advance their socialist big government tax, spend and borrow agenda.

  Author: Bradley Blakeman

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