Quotes with taxes

  • Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
  • People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
  • Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going.
  • The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
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  • Benjamin Franklin Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Anita Loos That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Andrew William Mellon A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.
    Andrew William Mellon
    American banker and businessman
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  • Bruce Dickinson Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Karl Marx Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this one is obvious, yet investors often fail to recognize it: Keep your costs low and your turnover lower, and you will win in the end.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Austan Goolsbee Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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  • Margaret Mitchell Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!
    Margaret Mitchell
    American writer (1900 - 1949)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg Even if every major government were to slap huge taxes on carbon fuels - which is not going to happen - it wouldn't do much to halt climate change any time soon. What it would do is cost us hundreds of billions - if not trillions - of dollars, because alternative energy technologies are not yet ready to take up the slack.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Albert Ellis For a man there are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and women. It is often difficult to say which is the worst.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Brad D. Smith Good intentions often get muddled with very complex execution. The last time the government tried to make taxes easier, it created a 1040 EZ form with a 52-page help booklet.
    Brad D. Smith
    American businessman
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  • Bill Dedman Huguette Clark has had her own tax liens - four times, the IRS has filed to collect taxes from her.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Barack Obama I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
    Source: As quoted in "Accountable: Making America as Good as Its Promise", Tavis Smiley, Simon and Schuster, 2009, p. 198
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Barack Obama I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
    Source: Celebrating Change: Key Speeches of President-Elect Barack Obama, From October 2002 to November 2008
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Augusten Burroughs I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Arthur Godfrey I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Barack Obama In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Austin O'Malley In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
    Austin O'Malley
    American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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  • Benjamin Franklin In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Benjamin Franklin In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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