#tax

New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut. ↗

— Craig Kilborn

#bush #castle #cut #dollars #flee

Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

#cemeteries #dead #dead people #drivers #driving

For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from. ↗

— Mary Landrieu

#billion #came #coast #except #federal

One of the things we worry about when we cut the tax on gasoline is that it basically stimulates additional use. ↗

— Edward Lazear

#additional #basically #cut #gasoline #stimulates

And my response is 70,000 people in the state of Maine that paid income tax in 2011 will not be paying income tax in 2012. ↗

— Paul LePage

#income tax #maine #paid #paying #people

Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#activities #banking #cards #collar #crime

You replace it by 23 percent tax, a frank, transparent tax embedded in the cost at retail, and everybody gets to takes their whole check home. And the average income earner gets a 50 percent increase in take-home pay. ↗

— John Linder

#check #cost #earner #embedded #everybody

The problem with the economy isn't that people aren't paying their fair share of taxes. ↗

— Jon Lovitz

#fair #fair share #paying #people #problem

I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials. ↗

— Scott McCallum

#government officials #i #look #need #officials

But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate. ↗

— Jim McDermott

#beyond #billion #break #buy #consumers