#income tax

Eastern Washington families and businesses should be able to deduct every penny of state and local sales tax they pay throughout the year from their federal tax bill, especially when people in most states are deducting their state income taxes. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#bill #businesses #deduct #eastern #especially

Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country. ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

#britain #cent #country #developed #developed country

Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year. ↗

— Bill Weld

#earning #fairness #income #income tax #increase

There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax! ↗

— Nat King Cole

#i #income #income tax #just #just one

On my income tax 1040 it says "Check this box if you are blind." I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#away #blind #box #check #i

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. ↗

— Plato

#income #income tax #just #less #man

You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#check #gentlemen #heart #i #i do

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#become #conventional #conventional wisdom #federal #government

I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#am #blush #bush #doubling #eliminating

I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions. ↗

— Harry Browne

#ending #federal #federal government #found #freeing