Quotes About Taxed

But as to honour, justice, wisdom, and learning, they should not be taxed at all; because they are qualifications of so singular a kind, that no man will either allow them in his neighbour or value them in himself.

I would not support any scheme which suggested that people should be taxed for living in their own home.

That's where the economy is going. It went somewhere. Just not to America. And the money made? That went to the Cayman Islands and Switzerland. Not back here. Never to be taxed.

We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.

The biggest revenue target is the preferential rate for long-term capital gains, which raises a perennial question: Why should capital income be taxed at a much lower rate than ordinary income? Capital assets are owned overwhelmingly by the rich.

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

The income from real estate is passive income, the least taxed of all incomes.

But I think my most lasting impression was still the unhurried dignity and noblesse with which the Spaniard handled his drink. He never gulped, panicked, pleaded with the barman, or let himself be shouted into the street. Drink, for him, was one of the natural privileges of living, rather than the temporary suicide it so often is for others. But then it was lightly taxed here, and there were no licensing laws; and under such conditions one could take one's time.

America, he argued, did not need to triumph decisively over the heavily taxed British: a war of attrition that eroded British credit would nicely do the trick. All the patriots had to do was plant doubts among Britain's creditors about the war's outcome.

It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.

In an S corporation you can pay yourself a reasonable salary, on which you pay payroll taxes. Profits after salary can be flowed through to the owner without payroll taxes. (Please note that an LLC can elect to be taxed as an S corporation and achieve this benefit.)

When shareholders receive distributions from a corporation the transaction is taxed.

For my part I have some fellow-feeling with Dr. Sprague: one's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

The parallels between preserving food and preserving mummies were apparently not lost on posterity. In the nineteenth century, when mummies from Saqqara and Thebes were taken from tombs and brought to Cairo, they were taxed as salted fish before being permitted entry to the city.

God is not worn out running the galaxy. He's not taxed at all guiding every dust particle all the time.

I used to get taxed on my allowance. Yeah, I've been taxed since I was a little kid. And at the end of the year I had to pick a charity to donate my taxes to.

And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.

Brownfields cleanups have been treated like capital investments in the tax laws, and they really are repairs and should be taxed as such.

no one can be compelled by law to be beneficent (though he may be taxed and this money then distributed in welfare payments)

try to get money from him that's not in the form of alimony. You won't get taxed that way. Get him off your insurance plan.

Licensed, regulated, taxed, safe. People pay for therapy, for physical training," he added, nodding at the board. "For spiritual guidance, and so on and so on. People pay for all manner of basic needs, and others train to provide those needs. Sex is a basic need.

It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator. Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.