#tax

I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#been #countries #farewell #go #i

My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate. ↗

— Jack Markell

#businesses #decide #executive #experience #governor

Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans. ↗

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

#consists #counting #example #for example #government

The payment of taxes is an obvious and insistent duty, and its sanction is usually punitive. ↗

— Joseph McKenna

#insistent #obvious #payment #punitive #sanction

At the same time, Republicans are pushing a $70 billion tax package that will overwhelmingly benefit the most wealthy Americans and actually increases the deficit by $16 billion. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#benefit #billion #deficit #increases #most

The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#average #break #get #households #less

We not only heard it before 20 years ago, before George Bush in 2001 passed his tax relief, before in 2003 the tax relief were past, we were told they were dead. Before we provided prescription drugs for Medicare, we were told it wasn't going to happen. ↗

— Ken Mehlman

#before #bush #dead #george #george bush

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#before #found #had #means #merely

From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who share our vision of a city hall that really protects taxpayers and cares... yes... about the little things that make a big difference in people's lives. ↗

— Laura Miller

#big #big difference #cares #city #city hall

I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has. ↗

— Bridget Moynahan

#city #constant #i #miss #new