#taxes

Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this. ↗

— Knute Nelson

#built #children #farmers #gen #hired

I'm a Conservative who believes in lower taxes. They lead to a more enterprising economy. But I'm not somebody who believes you can fund lower taxes by borrowing more money. ↗

— George Osborne

#borrowing #conservative #economy #enterprising #fund

Every culture has some ritual for joining two people together and making them stay that way, and ours is giving tax breaks. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #marriage #taxes #funny

The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain's, where a slower economy has been combined with a number of stealth taxes. ↗

— John Redwood

#britain #combined #considerably #corporation #economy

Sixteen- and 17-year-olds pay taxes and can join the army, so surely they should in turn be given their right to vote. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#given #join #pay #right #should

Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#bureaucratic #capital #degrees #different #effort

This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#choice #depriving #entire #facto #government

We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#any #blessed #designed #done #economic

So I don't feel particularly wealthy-but, you know, I pay my taxes and I know that I am. ↗

— Dan Savage

#feel #i #i am #know #particularly

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

#collecting #currently #each #individual #number