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Tax Quotes
"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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"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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"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."
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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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"A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state."
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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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"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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"1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS."
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"The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway."
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"We all know what the problems are: it's tax and spend. One party will tax and spend, the other party won't tax but will spend. It's both of them together."
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"Number one I think we should impose a fee or a tax on the transportation of trash per mile."
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"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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"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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"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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"Missouri remains a low tax, efficiently run state, according to all prominent national rankings."
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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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"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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"Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas."
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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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"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."
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"We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones."
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