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Tax Quotes
"We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town."
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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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"The IRS is currently considering a rule that would make it easier for tax preparers to disclose the private information contained in tax returns - including name, address, Social Security number, employer, income, and charitable donations."
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"The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor."
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"Currently, 94 out of 100 of us pay the Social Security tax all year round."
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"A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state."
32
"I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that."
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"I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business."
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"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."
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"1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS."
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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."
30
"We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones."
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"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."
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"We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible."
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"The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway."
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"Missouri remains a low tax, efficiently run state, according to all prominent national rankings."
27
"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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"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."
26
"If you increase taxes now on - at any level, it's going to make it harder to create jobs And we've lost 2 1/2 million jobs since the stimulus package passed. We're at 9.6 unemployment. So I don't think we tax too little, I think we spend too much."
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"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."
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"Tax cuts are an investment in working families."
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"In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated."
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