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Tax Quotes
"If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed."
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"If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase."
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"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."
32
"The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden."
32
"I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations."
30
"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."
30
"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."
30
"Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves."
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"Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic."
28
"I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?"
28
"No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax."
27
"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."
26
"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."
25
"It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation."
25
"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."
24
"He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer."
24
"Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax."
24
"The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax."
24
"Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax."
24
"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."
23
"One of the things we worry about when we cut the tax on gasoline is that it basically stimulates additional use."
23
"Currently, not only are Americans taxed on what they earn, but those assets are taxed again when they are passed on to a loved one."
23
"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."
23
"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."
22
"Number one I think we should impose a fee or a tax on the transportation of trash per mile."
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22
"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."
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"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."
21
"An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt."
21
"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."
20
"Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'"
20
"We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town."
20
"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."
20
"Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made."
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