#tax

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#sheep #taxation

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#i #reasons #spending #tax #year

The federal and state governments should ban the use of taxpayer funds to support cloning and embryonic stem cell research. ↗

— Sandy Adams

#cell #cell research #cloning #embryonic #embryonic stem cell

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes. ↗

— Dave Barry

#big #big business #business #consumer #nader

An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt. ↗

— Fred Allen

#form #income #income tax #laundry #like

We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels. ↗

— Dick Armey

#american family #cut #family #going #levels

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. ↗

— Chester A. Arthur

#expenditure #extravagant #measured #money #people

And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#beginning #changing #chapter #clause #couple

Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since our annual deficit now exceeds all discretionary spending combined. ↗

— Brian Baird

#annual #balance #budget #combined #contradictory

When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes. ↗

— Haley Barbour

#anybody #became #because #did #first