15 quotes found
“I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form.”
“The power to tax is the power to destroy.”
“It seems like the richer you are, the more chance you have of paying less tax.”
“Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.”
“We shouldn't be debating whether to deal with the current code by allowing it to be extended or not. We should have a president who shows leadership and comes to Congress and says: 'You know what? ...”
“I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.”
“The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.”
“There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!”
“If you don't drink, smoke, or drive a car, you're a tax evader.”
“Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.”
“For the U.S., I think we should have a carbon tax, for environmental reasons.”
“It's a social contract we make. We're willing to give up certain things. We give you the right to tax us. We give you the right to lock us up. We give you the right to put us on surveillance, searc...”
“I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax.”
“We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.”
“We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?”