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Tax Quotes
"If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase."
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"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."
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"The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden."
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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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"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."
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"Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax."
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"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."
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"Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made."
Tax,
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"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."
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"Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic."
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"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."
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"Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Tax breaks can serve a vital role in keeping and bringing jobs to our state; however, without accountability, they are little more than loopholes at taxpayers' expense."
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"If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed."
8
"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?"
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"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."
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"Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'"
7
"We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town."
7
"It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation."
7
"The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax."
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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."
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"A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state."
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"An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt."
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"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."
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"One of the things we worry about when we cut the tax on gasoline is that it basically stimulates additional use."
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"He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer."
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"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."
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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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"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."
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