#taxes

When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes. ↗

— Ernie Banks

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The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed. ↗

— Alan Keyes

#allowed #before #claim #experiment #failed

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#any #avoidance #carries #intellectual #only

Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives. ↗

— Karl Rove

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The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery. ↗

— Karl Rove

#difficulty #growth #higher #higher taxes #his

France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden...something of which I am not proud. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

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We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes. ↗

— Joe Scarborough

#give #going #income #income tax #income taxes

The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#changes #draft #families #fought #group

The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes. ↗

— John Shadegg

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Mitt has a ton of consultants, and not one of them thought he needed a credible answer on Bain or taxes? ↗

— Mark Steyn

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