#taxes

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#avoid #legally #paying #really #taxes

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#death #except #law #life #nothing

Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#faith #guns #money #people #raise

Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#cut #cutting #getting #here #increases

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

It's not rocket science. Hong Kong has 95% tax compliance, because it's code is only 4 pages long with a 15% flat tax. ↗

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

#taxes #age

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine. During an emergency, like an earthquake or a hurricane, taxes pay for rescue workers, shelters, and services. For people whose lives are devastated by other kinds of disaster, like the disaster of poverty, taxes pay, even, for food. ↗

— Jill Lepore

#business #common-defense #disasters #domestic-tranquility #emergencies

... economists recognize that, other things equal, cuts in tax rates reduce tax revenues in percentage terms by less than the tax-rate reductions. Similarly, tax-rate increases do not raise tax revenues by as much in percentage terms as the tax-rate increases. This is true because changes in marginal tax rates alter taxpayer behavior and thus affect taxable income. ↗

— Campbell R. McConnell

#laffer #taxes #change

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#death #humor #taxes #truth #death

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#taxes #death