Quotes About Tax

even a tax on the tax-collecting farmers general.

Did you know there are more tax breaks for video game companies than for researchers pursuing medical developments or alternate fuels?

When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.

If we don't do something to simplify the tax system, we're going to end up with a national police force of internal revenue agents.

President Bush says he now wants to simplify the tax code. Only those in the blue states will pay.

Quentin had an obsolete sailing ship that had been raised from the dead. He had psychotically effective swordsman and an enigmatic witch-queen. It wasn't the Fellowship of the Ring, but then again he wasn't trying to save the world from Sauron, he was trying to perform a tax audit on a bunch of hick islanders…

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

I'm very grateful I went to school to study law, particularly tax law, which really is interesting to me and very useful to me now with my position. Music, however, will always be my number one passion; I like how it connects everyone.

We've never much liked the idea of charging a participation tax, a phrase we coined to represent what it feels like when a software company charges you more money for each additional user. Participation taxes discourage usage across a company.

The gasoline tax is a user fee, but it does not fill enough of the need, and you want cars to be more efficient.

Nobody expects the tax collector to be a friend, but one does expect the government to apply its mind to making payments and refunds fair and user friendly especially for those who are actually paying tax.

Federal gas tax revenues that are paid into the trust fund by highway users should be used for programs that benefit highway users.

We've got tax and regulatory policies in this country that are driving a lot of businesses overseas, and so I think there's a lot that we can do using principles of constitutionally limited government to help address people who share these concerns.

People were holding high denomination notes to keep tax unaccounted for money. Some sectors like real estate were using cash to avoid tax.

I don't blame anybody for using the tax code to their advantage.

Utah's economy stays strong by adhering to conservative fundamental principles: low and consistent tax rates, smaller and more efficient government, sensible regulation, and empowering the private sector to create jobs.

The Enterprise Value Tax is unprecedented, punitive, and has no justification in the tax code.

In the U.S. Senate, in the short term we need to reduce the tax burden on hard working individuals, families, and small businesses.

In the Iowa senate, I helped pass the largest tax cut in state history - returning over four billion dollars in savings and putting more money back in the pockets of hard-working Iowa families.

We need a tax code that promotes savings, investment, achievement, innovation, and hard work.

We need to have a tax system that rewards work and not just financial transactions.

I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.

If they gave a Nobel Peace Prize for work against big tobacco, not just in the industry, but also with the California tax initiative, he really deserves one.

Making the most of global trade opportunities does not mean transitioning to a low-tax, deregulatory, 'Bargain Basement' economy. It means developing a robust Industrial Strategy intertwined with a strong trade agenda.