Quotes About Tax

Given the power and influence that science increasingly has in our daily lives, it is important that we as citizens of an open and democratic society learn to separate good science from bunk. This is not just a matter of intellectual curiosity, as it affects where large portions of our tax money go, and in some cases even whether people's lives are lost as a result of nonsense.

When the Crossfire paradigm loses its force, all that's left is a bunch of people with different views all sitting together in a room, wondering why they're all paying three bucks a gallon for gas, why they have no health insurance, why their tax rates are higher than Warren Buffet's. If we're all equally a bunch of suckers, how could any of us be worth hating?

Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.

Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it.

Bending Spring Ranch, Cole Valley, Colorado." "What kind of a ranch is it anyway?" Dennis had asked Jules originally when the property had been purchased. "Cattle? Dude? I wasn't really sure." "No, it's a tax ranch," she'd said. "See, they raise little tax brackets there. It's the only one of its kind in the world.

Bribes over two dollars are tax deductible

war is not nice because it's such a waste, as Queen Sara puts it. It wastes precious resources that could otherwise be used for programs designed to help people flourish. For Rogers, tax dollars are for record players that can help children appreciate music; they're not for weapons designed to slaughter the parents of children or, worse, the children themselves.

When asked if he would raise the capital gains tax even if it meant decreasing revenue, candidate Obama said, "I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness." "Fairness" simply means "what I approve of," a subjective term that seems objective but has no actual inherent meaning.

While he wanted a job with the Trump administration, the Mooch specifically wanted one of the jobs that would give him a tax break on the sale of his business. A federal program provides for deferred payment of capital gains in the event of a sale of property to meet ethical requirements. Scaramucci needed a job that would get him a "certificate of divestiture," which is what an envious Scaramucci knew Gary Cohn had received for the sale of his Goldman stock.

It's my property and a gift from the Lord. Why should I pay tax on it?

Hating the New York Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax.

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

So then the success tax comes from envy, and the shit tax comes from exploitation... The tax for being mediocre comes from you and everyone else knowing that you are mediocre. It's a heavier tax than you'd think.

there is a tax, you know, on success." "Huh?" "If you do well at anything, you gotta pay up to all the people who did worse. On the other hand, if you do badly, life makes you pay a shit tax, too. Everybody pays something.

The tax for being mediocre comes from you and everyone else knowing that you are mediocre. It's a heavier tax than you'd think.

Everything has a tax, and the tax for the bodies is recommended fasting.

The price of living is death, no one can escape paying this tax.

The tithe is the old invisible tax imposed on all religious people.

Too much government tax erases all the truth and trust left in a businessman's head and heart.

The joint committee invited economists of many economic stripes to model what would happen if America switched from the current code to a unified income tax or a consumption tax. Every economist who modeled reported that the consumption tax would increase long-term economic growth.

O]ne macroeconomic study of the FairTax—a study that assumed that the employer's share of the payroll tax is the only tax savings that will be used to lower prices—estimated that prices would rise by 24.8 percent but wages would increase by 27.4 percent, more than compensating for the increase in prices. By these calculations, disposable income is expected to increase by 1.7 percent.

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. —Will Rogers

But most studies have found that cheating of public assistance programs is quite modest, perhaps 2 percent—less than tax evasion by the wealthy.

The suggestion was put to us that we should become non-resident in the UK for one year so that we could earn some money and replenish the dwindling coffers, and provide some time for our accountants and tax specialists to salvage something from the wreckage. The whole experience cast an enormous cloud over us. We had always prided ourselves on being smart enough not to be caught out like this. We saw ourselves as educated, middle class, in control of everything. We had been utterly wrong.