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When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed. -- George Will
The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike. -- Adam Davidson
Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success. -- Ludwig von Mises
Taxing less and spending more.. it's fun in the short run, but it's a recipe for disaster. -- William J. Clinton
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. -- Edmund Burke
Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work. -- Nicholas Johnson
In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval monarchs rich and funded the early-modern state. -- Jill Lepore
Taxing the rich to fund the poorly managed government programs is simply a self-destructive decision: It does nothing more than move money and investment decisions away from proven moneymakers (read: job producers) to Washington amateurs. In both cases, American's lose. -- T. J. Rodgers
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them? -- Edmund Burke
Taxing people for having a spare bedroom and forcing them into rent arrears or the possibility of losing homes they have lived in for years has always been a cruel and heartless measure, and so it is good that the Scottish Parliament has been able to step in. -- Nicola Sturgeon
Too much of a good thing can be taxing. -- Mae West
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. -- Mortimer Adler
The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing. -- Julie Bishop
The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics. -- Boris Johnson
The journey from employee to entrepreneur was a complex and taxing one for an immigrant like me. -- Ruchi Sanghvi
For me, shoe-wise, platforms give me the same height that I need, but they're not as taxing on my feet. -- Debby Ryan
You can't wrestle forever. It's a very physically taxing job. There's no doubt about it. Physically, and more importantly, mentally. -- Chris Jericho
Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually. -- George Soros
I'm paranoid about shopping. I get irritable. I find it tedious and taxing. People say shopping is retail therapy, but I need therapy after shopping. -- Anushka Sharma
I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me. -- Miriam Makeba
Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job. -- Janet Jackson
Washington doesn't have just a spending problem, or just an entitlement problem, or just a taxing problem. We have a leadership problem. Fix that, and the first three problems are solved. -- Mark McKinnon
You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes. -- Vin Diesel
Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity. -- Arthur Laffer
Pray a little more, work a little harder, save, wait, be patient and, most of all, live within our means. That's the American way. It's not spending ourselves into prosperity or taxing ourselves into prosperity. -- Mike Huckabee
When you're filming, you work 19-hour days and you know more about what's going on with your crew and co-workers than you do with your husband. You're away, you miss things. It's taxing. Relationships fail because of it. -- Kim Cattrall
If you're a global company you are going to have jobs overseas. The reality is if we start taxing those jobs at a rate that makes them noncompetitive in those markets, the reality is that we're going to lose business. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
Republicans are for clean water, clean air, and clean energy. We are not for taxing people out of their house, home and business to pay for it. And that is the fundamental difference between the Democrats and Republicans on this issue. -- Marsha Blackburn
If you make the bad guy enticing and dangerous, that's where the excitement of playing the role really kicks in. I don't get to do that in my normal day-to-day life. Life is too taxing to go to those dark places. -- Tony Vincent
No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had. -- Donald Sutherland
You know what, I'm happy to say that everything outside of 'Dexter' feels like a vacation, and I don't mean to say anything negative about the show. It's just a different kind of work. Emotionally it's taxing and complicated, and that's a great thing. -- Jennifer Carpenter
As more and more Americans own shares of stock, more and more Americans understand that taxing businesses is taxing them. Regulating businesses is taxing them. They ought to be thinking long-term about their ownership, not just their income, and that they should pay taxes on capital, as well as taxes on labor. -- Grover Norquist
I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party shortly after I had wrapped photography in Romania at two in the morning as the Ghost Rider. The invitation had a Christmas ornament on it with Ghost Rider's face on it as a tree. -- Nicolas Cage
An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That's the beauty of it. It's not taxing to the listener's intelligence because if you haven't heard it the first time round, it'll come around again. -- James Fenton
You can't increase prosperity by taxing success. -- Calvin Coolidge
Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around. -- David Foster Wallace
When you're taxing bovine flatulence emissions, there's nothing left to tax. -- Mark Steyn
The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches. -- William Graham Sumner
But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration. -- Steve King
The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government. -- James Madison
Instead of taxing rich people, governments borrow from them, and pay them interest for the privilege. -- Doug Henwood
I think a lot of comedians sometimes pretend to find the job more taxing than it is. -- Dani Levy
The journey from employee to entrepreneur was a complex and taxing one for an immigrant like me, -- Ruchi Sanghvi
Since I tend to write chronologically, the middle is always the place where the process is most taxing. -- Robert Paul Weston
Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them. -- Margaret Halsey
Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property. -- Thomas Carlyle
I will strive to make this not the highest-spending country in the world, but instead the lowest taxing o-ne. -- Stephen Harper
Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety. -- Howard Barker
The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need. -- Harlan F. Stone
Of all athletic forms, running is perhaps the most taxing and the most exciting; that is, when carried to the extreme. -- Alfred Shrubb
We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create. -- Daniel Webster
When you talk about taxing the rich, you're taxing capital, and taxing capital results in damage to more than just the wealthy. -- Rush Limbaugh
I love playing my music and I love sharing the music with people. But at the same time, it is pretty taxing. -- Jack Johnson
We introduced the Community Charge. I still call it that. I like the Poles - I never had any intention of taxing them. -- Margaret Thatcher
The government's coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by that power. -- Sheldon Richman
What you do to China is you say if you don't behave we're going to have to start taxing your goods coming into our country. -- Donald Trump
Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually." -- George Soros
I vote Democrat because I believe oil companies profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon at 15% isn't. -- David Letterman
No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others. -- John Ruskin
I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art. -- Jay Kay
every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all. -- Robin Morgan
I hate taxing my mind with analysis. I'm not a good analyst. I cannot talk about acting. I hate talking about it. I hate talking about analyzing. -- Anthony Hopkins
The corporation is not a person; it is a legal fiction backed up by guns and police and jail cells and taxing authorities and the regulators called government. -- Jerry Brown
We've got this weird dysgenic situation where we're basically just paying idiots to breed and taxing intelligent people to stay away from each other with anything remotely resembling fertility. -- Stefan Molyneux
Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it's not like cutting a movie and test focus-grouping it and filling out forms. -- Mark Hamill
If you like Obama, if you like a Washington that offers free stuff and taxing the rich, that's what you get. I don't see him evolving as a president. -- Nina Easton
You got a million drug laws now because the bosses figured there was more money in putting people in jail than taxing something anyone can grow on a window sill. -- Lenny Bruce
You know, the taxing authority of the United States is our most powerful weapon. You know, the reason we separated from England was because the British were using it abusively. -- Judd Gregg
It's a pitch you can extend your career with because it's less taxing on your body. It's like dog years, but in reverse. I feel like I'm 27 or 26 in knuckleball years! -- R.A. Dickey
Several states are now looking into the possibility of taxing marijuana as a source of revenue. That is so typical of the government, isn't it? Trying to squeeze blood from a stoner. -- Jay Leno
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.
It can be annoying not to know who you are, where you came from, or what you're doing. To try to create a character without a whole lot of information can be taxing. -- Dallas Roberts
We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve. -- Jack Reed
If I tax them, in fact, I'm not taxing the capitalists, I am taxing the people who have saved, trusted. It was very controversial, those sorts of things. But finally, it worked out. -- Shimon Peres
The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary. -- William Cobbett
You see a lot of sides of people on a movie set because it can be really taxing and to kind of go through all that together - you really get to know someone. -- Ed Helms
Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature. -- Jennifer Connelly
With 'Survivor' - I didn't get any sleep, there was no food, we had to boil our water... plus, it was physically taxing during the day. That's what made it more difficult than three-a-day practices. -- Jimmy Johnson

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