#tax

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#authority #cannons #everywhere #further #greatest

What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Security reform passed, that he'll have tax reform passed, that he'll have conservative judges on the courts. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#bush #conservative #courts #heard #i

It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#army #crime #criminal #disloyalty #felt

In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#charge #community #continual #his way #interest

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

The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#away #awful #body #body shop #company

If we are to attract private investment, if we are to be able to make the legislature feel the moneys from taxpayers are being used properly, we must be ever vigilant of the duty to efficiently use all funds we receive. ↗

— James E. Rogers

#attract #being #being used #duty #efficiently

Taxpayers don't need any more big government mandates that have proven to be disastrous. ↗

— Mike Rogers

#big #big government #disastrous #government #mandates

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. ↗

— Will Rogers

#congress #death #death and taxes #difference #every

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business? ↗

— Will Rogers

#business #check #crime #legalize #out