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Born free. Taxed to death. -- Christopher Titus
No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity. -- Rush Limbaugh
Texans should not be taxed on our taxes. -- Kay Bailey Hutchison
Income should be taxed one time at one rate, not again and again. -- Grover Norquist
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. -- Ronald Reagan
Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already. -- Michele Bachmann
And the Tea Party represents many of us who believe that we are taxed enough already. We believe in free markets. -- Tim Scott
Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product. -- Eliot Spitzer
If I make a dollar and out of every dollar I'm taxed at 50, half, at 50 cents, I have to give, isn't that like enough? -- Jon Lovitz
Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before. -- Art Buchwald
If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit. -- Bill Gates
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it. -- Chester A. Arthur
A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others. -- James Surowiecki
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The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed. -- Mike Fitzpatrick
I used to get taxed on my allowance. Yeah, I've been taxed since I was a little kid. And at the end of the year I had to pick a charity to donate my taxes to. -- Lauren Conrad
The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government. -- J. D. Hayworth
You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean. -- Rand Paul
In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented. -- Ernestine Rose
Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country? -- Carter Glass
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. -- John Wesley Powell
Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only. Who are ever taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent? Individuals only. -- Lysander Spooner
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And here's the fact: the fact is it doesn't solve the problem. First of all, if you taxed these people at 100 percent, basically next year you said, 'Look, every penny you make next year the government's going to take it from you,' it still doesn't solve the debt. -- Marco Rubio
Green' cannot be allowed to become an excuse for stealth taxes. And nor should 'green taxes' be about punishment. Instead, they should represent a switch of emphasis. So if domestic flights are taxed, it should be on the absolute condition that the money is ploughed into improving the alternatives, such as trains. -- Zac Goldsmith
The rich pay more in total taxes now than ever before - ever. It's true. Just like it's true that when the rich are convinced they're going to be taxed more, they spend less. And when the top few percenters don't spend, there goes all your spending, because they account for half of all retail spending. -- Neil Cavuto
The American people I talk to don't spend every moment thinking, 'How can I tax my neighbor more than they're being taxed?' They say, 'How can I get a good job? How can my kids get good jobs? How can seniors have a confidence in their future when they know that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupt?' -- Mitt Romney
No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity. -- Rush Limbaugh
I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all. -- Jack Welch
Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. -- Robert A. Heinlein
If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed. -- Robert Strauss
If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed. -- Robert Strauss
Few things in life are certain except death and being taxed. -- Felix Dennis
No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent. -- James Otis
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed. -- Bernard Berenson
Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes. -- John Dryden
You've taxed too much, borrowed too much and are a roadblock to reform. -- David Cameron
All capitalists should be like Warren Buffett, and he says he should be taxed more. -- Ed Asner
Some are taxed on their success, true. Some are taxed on their survival, also true. -- Benjamin Kane Ethridge
A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result. -- Henry David Thoreau
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government. -- Benjamin Franklin
There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else. -- Cullen Hightower
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. -- Oscar Wilde
We're being taxed to blow up bridges in Iraq and rebuild them, while ours at home are falling down -- Ron Paul
We're the highest taxed in the world, we're the highest taxed country right now, and it's not even close. -- Donald Trump
I got worries by the ton, getting cancer's only one. Over taxed and alimonied, tired of eating fried baloney. -- Neil Diamond
People who renovate and improve homes are penalized by being taxed more for creating value and improving the neighborhood. -- Mark Noble
I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster. -- Henry David Thoreau
Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own. -- Thomas Jefferson
God is not worn out running the galaxy. He's not taxed at all guiding every dust particle all the time. -- John Piper
The harder you work for money, the more you are taxed, the harder your money works, the less it is taxed. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something. -- Lord Chesterfield
We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. -- Ronald Reagan
If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation. -- Samuel Adams
No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit. -- Mark Twain
Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are taxed away -- Ludwig von Mises
Currently, not only are Americans taxed on what they earn, but those assets are taxed again when they are passed on to a loved one. -- Mary Bono
Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now. -- Angelina Grimke
Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change. -- Ed Miliband
I think it's terrible for people in effect to say that income from investment should be taxed at a much lower rate than income from labor. -- Howard Warren Buffett
To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that? -- Richard D. Wolff
Income earned by the sweat of your brow should be taxed at the lowest rates, not the highest. Capital gains should be taxed at a higher rate. -- John C. Bogle
I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched in so many giddy offences as He hath generally taxed their whole their whole sex withal. -- William Shakespeare
The American experiment has come and gone. Whatever freedoms the people still might have as their own, are monitored and registered and taxed at virtually every turn. -- Jeff Baxter
In almost every instance, air and water quality goals were met more cheaply and quickly when we taxed pollution than when we tried to regulate it directly. -- Bob Frank
Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator. -- Lawrence Lessig
It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people, that ought ever to be taxed. -- Adam Smith
Sugar is the next tobacco, without a doubt, and that industry should be scared. It should be taxed just like tobacco and anything else that can, frankly, destroy lives, -- Jamie Oliver
Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four times as much by our Folly. -- Benjamin Franklin
Women's property has been taxed, equally with that of men's, to sustain colleges endowed by the states; but they have not been permitted to enter those high seminaries of learning. -- Lucretia Mott
When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl. -- T. S. Eliot
If a group of people - leaders - can convince a group of folk who barely have a pot to piss in that the rich shouldn't be taxed-- THAT is leadership! -- Lewis Black
The dual effect of high growth creating higher income that's taxed by government at all levels, combined with lessening demands placed on government that occurs during economic prosperity, is a worthy objective. -- Jeb Bush
We don't need more politicians insisting we have deficits because you're not taxed enough. Those deficits ballooned from an economy that didn't grow enough and from 50 years of government spending too much. -- Ronald Reagan
Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed. -- Barack Obama, Sr.
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That's where the economy is going. It went somewhere. Just not to America. And the money made? That went to the Cayman Islands and Switzerland. Not back here. Never to be taxed. -- Henry Rollins
Having taxed the economy so hard, it has created a big depression. So we have to create a tax system that could really help growth and investment that is the first thing. -- Eva Kaili
If telecom are seen as a rightful infrastructure for the growth of many other sectors in the economy and the multiplier force, then I think it doesn't deserve to be taxed so high. -- Sunil Mittal
Of course, we all have to be taxed, but once you start to earn more than Â£150,000, and start paying 45 per cent tax, you are penalised. It is like a witch hunt. -- Anthea Turner
So every dollar of income that I have that is potentially taxed away is a dollar I can't put in my company to create a job. My entire company is around job creation. -- Curt Schilling
It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation. -- Aristophanes
From the time they get up in the morning and flush the toilet, they're taxed. Then they go and get the cup of coffee, they're taxed....This goes on all day long. Tax, tax, tax. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
The problem with our deficit is not because Americans are taxed too little. The problem with the deficit is because Washington spends too much money. We have got to stop spending money we don't have. -- Paul Ryan
Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength habitually not taxed at all, because habitually we never push through the obstruction -- William James

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