My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don’t owe you a penny… You give my son back, and I’ll pay my taxes.
Presidential elections and the voter experience have long been fraught for black people. From racist poll taxes to made-up literacy tests to the egregious rollback of voting rights over the past 50 years, American democracy has, at times, felt like a weird and failed social experiment.
Reforming Social Security to make it fully funded and independently held, that’s compassionate because it allows people to control their own lives; cutting taxes on families and all Americans to let people have more control over their lives.
Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full ‘Taxmageddon’ scenario, President Obama’s health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013.
The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control.
In 1993, as House Democratic Leader, I led the fight to pass the Clinton-Gore economic plan – a plan designed to slash the deficit, invest in education, cut taxes for working families, and ask the wealthy among us to pay their fair share… Not one Republican voted for that plan. They said it was a job killer.
Big swings in the wholesale price of electricity are not unusual in the summer, when high demand taxes generators’ ability to supply power.
Huguette Clark has had her own tax liens – four times, the IRS has filed to collect taxes from her.
The problem with being an employee or self-employed is you pay the highest taxes.
I’m always working. I don’t really set limits. I tend to go in bursts. And in between, I’m doing my taxes, answering the phone, and all those kinds of things. I waste a lot of time. Computers take a lot of time. I love computers.
Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don’t pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.
According to our estimates, the Hungarians working in the U.K. altogether pay more contributions and taxes than the benefits that they get. So we belong to the world of the fair working people.
As New York’s United States Senator, I promise to reinstate the Moynihan ‘Fisc Report’ and work every day to address the imbalance of payments, first by focusing on reducing the amount of taxes we send to Washington, and second, by ensuring that funding formulas don’t disadvantage New York.
In a system where the cost of care is hidden by taxes levied on your income, property, and business activities, it is no wonder why so many Americans rely on Medicaid to pay their long term care.
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.
I really think people understand that in New York City we have high taxes.
I don’t act because I love doing it, I act because it’s my job. At the end of the year, I gotta pay my taxes, bills, doctors, insurance, car insurance, the occasional vacation. It’s a wonderful job. The upside is that it is exciting and different… the downside is that it is an extremely insecure job.
I’m a Conservative. I don’t believe there should be too many rules. There should be lower taxes.
The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.
Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I’d like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.
Labour want to control all parts of the economy and society so that they can pursue the politics of envy. It would leave us all paying higher taxes and the economy in tatters.
Though I don’t personally believe that Bitcoin is true money, it should be perfectly legal, and there should be no restrictions on it; there should be no taxes on it.
An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.
Tax rates aren’t everything with regard to incentives to work. I would probably work at a 100% tax rate next to a nude modeling studio. I’m joking, but you know what I’m saying. There’s a lot more to it than just tax rates. It’s economics that I do; I don’t do nude modeling studio economics. People do respond to taxes.
I’m not for a temporary war tax. We’re putting actual dollars in one way or the other, and so if we’re gonna look at taxes, we ought to look at a comprehensive tax reform policy.
I’m careful to pay every single penny on my taxes. I don’t have any money offshore.
I believe we now have a glorious opportunity: we can pass our laws and set our taxes entirely according to the needs of the U.K. economy.
Most people I know have had problems paying their taxes. I am just like everybody else.
The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can’t raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can’t cut anything, we’re obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this.
I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.
When you’re undocumented, you’re supposed to keep your head down and be quiet and pay taxes, social security – even though people don’t know that we do those things – and not say anything.
Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology.
As far as I’m concerned, the people who aren’t paying taxes don’t get to run around claiming that they built everything, that the built the roads and that they built the bridges and so forth.
It’s time to acknowledge that more government and higher taxes is not the answer to our problem.
I have no problem paying taxes. It doesn’t bother me, because I want to live in a society that’s happy.
Government needs to get out of the way, focus more on affordability, manage taxes properly so we get the services we expect.
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.
Raising taxes does nothing to allow the economy to recover.
Taxes should be simple and fair… I’m not for increasing income taxes – if we even have an income tax.
If the parties would brand themselves the way Coke and Pepsi and other products do so that you knew what you were buying, it had quality control. I vote for the Republican. He or she will not raise my taxes. I’ll buy one. I’ll take that one home.
Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.
People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes.
Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.
It’s a lethal thing to suddenly raise taxes.
Americans for Tax Reform is a national taxpayer organization dedicated to opposing any and all tax increases. We work at the national, state and local level for lower taxes, less government spending and limited government.
Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.
There are no taxes that are unpaid, nor were there any taxes that I was responsible for that didn’t get paid.
When I see stimulus money being used to attack American companies and American workers, I think it would be very unsettling to be working on the assembly line of Coca Cola, look up, and see an ad that’s trying to hurt the very job that you make your wages and pay taxes from.
When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.
If you think we are going to gain ground by holding the American people hostage, saying that their taxes are at risk, I actually disagree.
But let me perfectly clear, because I know you’ll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.
When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there’s a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.
High taxes on guns and strong restrictions on their availability are the only realistic hope for avoiding many more Sandy Hooks.
