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I think, in effect, in most of the European countries, the total marginal tax rate is over 50 percen...
JAMES MIRRLEES Currently, they have frozen our bank accounts, they've frozen our assets, so that we are unable to a...
BRUCE MISAMORE Imagine a 40-to-50 percent sales tax -- that would cheer everybody up,
ROBERT MCINTYRE These investors, who comprise over 60 percent of the equity market, prefer companies to convert busi...
JACK MINTZ The poorest 40 percent of Hawaii residents, those with incomes under $31,000, would receive only 20 ...
JASON LEVITIS They're paying a full price relative to the value of other Russian oil assets. It's difficult to say...
CHRISTOPHER WEAFER I've been paying a lot of money in state income taxes, and I've been happy to do it, but whe...
TOM GOLISANO The average means 50 percent of the time, we're over that, and 50 percent of the time, we're under t...
JIM ROBERTSON There is an old adage that the quickest way to drop your tax take is to increase taxes. If capital g...
PETER HARGREAVES Because of the way this form used to work, it calculated the tax as if you had received the money ov...
CINDY HOCKENBERRY If taxes are owed, a delay in filing may result in penalty and interest charges that could increase ...
BILL STEINER By selling now, you can lock in losses and reduce your child's 2001 tax bill, ... And your college s...
KALMAN CHANY You replace it by 23 percent tax, a frank, transparent tax embedded in the cost at retail, and every...
JOHN LINDER It's really impossible to argue that this tax bill simplifies the tax system. It's because of the ac...
JOEL SLEMROD![]()
To the extent societal rules or the wiring of your brains make it easy to acquire a lot of assets, t...
MOHNISH PABRAI![]()
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD Right now, our customers are about 50 percent public sector and 50 percent private sector.
RICHARD CALLAHAN Fully 93 percent of the tax relief in our bill goes to taxpayers with annual incomes under $100,000,...
BILL ARCHER I don't wish to imply that there aren't good things about you or that you're not an extraordinary pe...
GEORGE TSARGAS "NOW THAT IT'S OVER" Federal and provincial programs that benefit the city of Ottawa are financed by hard working, tax pa...
SEAN MCKENNY There are thresholds that you cannot step over, as if beyond lie the ghosts of those passed, as if t...
MARIANA FULGER The exit polls are great. Sixty percent of the audience were males. It was 50 percent over-25 and 50...
DAN FELLMAN We strongly encourage people to purchase because 50 percent goes to the artist ... and the other 50 ...
DENNIS PAUL BATT We pushed that blocking sled all over the field, ... We didn't like it, but it's paying off right no...
KYLE BROWN I used to think business was 50 percent having the right people. Now I think it's 80 percent.
KEVIN P. RYAN We have 85 percent of our fuel bill hedged at $26 a barrel. Because we were able to purchase insuran...
BETH HARBIN It's a victory for those who refused the offer because it would leave them with a huge tax bill.
ANGELA KNIGHT The general rule is to use up your outside assets first and let assets continue to grow in this wond...
BARBARA RAASCH Basically, all Creedmoor has to offer us is a tax bill.
RANDY PERRY The only thing worse than paying income tax is not paying income tax
DONALD MACLEOD I've seen my practice mature and probably 50 percent to 60 percent of the pregnancies are over the a...
DR. CRANSTON CEDERLIND![]()
First of all, I only get 50 percent of it, because, I mean, the galleries get 50 and 60 percent. I m...
ANTHONY QUINN Tae kwon do and karate are basically the same. It depends on the teacher. Karate is 80 percent with ...
PETER MORALES The most common question over the last year is how to choose the best tax structure and how to prote...
GENE FAIRBROTHER It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but...
RICHARD NEAL When things are clicking, we are a very good team. Right now we're clicking about 50 percent of the ...
JODI MANORE If you owe money it will be added to your tax bill. If you expect a refund it will be deducted.
GRETCHEN DYKSTRA In some school they go by percentages, where all the cheerleaders with a certain (judging) percentag...
CHRISTY HARRELL I said to her, what if we could turn all those visitors into 50 million ambassadors? She jumped all ...
ROGER DOW This is a policy I strongly recommend. If your employer covers 50 percent to 60 percent for it, pay ...
KEN THOMPSON It is vital that we continuously look closely at all of our manufacturing assets to ensure alignment...
WERNER BREUERS Now they are less than 50 percent confident that there will be any rise.
MARC CHANDLER We've seen our vehicle donation drop by over 40 percent this year, and it's all a direct result of t...
BRENDAN HURLEY One week later the people who were told he was a jerk remembered a higher bill -- from 10 percent to...
DAVID PIZARRO![]()
All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the U...
THOMAS PIKETTY You're talking a 40 percent increase in taxes. Anytime political leaders decide they want to give vo...
TED MATTHEWS I think it fully likely that Lukashenko got over 50 percent, but 82 percent is just unreal. It is of...
OLEG MANAEV For him not to even break (50 percent), not to even approach it, says all you need to say. In five '...
HUNTER BACOT Unless it's over 50 percent, I'm always skeptical. It could pass. It could fail. You can't really ma...
BRAD COKER![]()
Balance the federal budget now, not 15 years from now, not 20 years from now, but now. And throw out...
GARY JOHNSON Forty percent are cured and 50 percent are significantly improved. The other 10 percent have issues ...
ANIELA ORR And rates are not likely to be adjusting downward. Households are paying about 13.75 percent of thei...
PAUL KASRIEL Those are what we typically see in the E.R.. Some 40 to 50 percent of what comes through the E.R. ov...
DR. DAVID KOVACIK The opposition is quite often saying nobody's paying this tax and wealthy families just want to get ...
ALEX CROCKETT![]()
Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three yea...
CHRISTINA ROMER It used to be a 25 percent local, 75 percent federal and state grant. This year, for the first time,...
LARRY JARRELL I think we're behind, I do. A lot of schools are way over 50 percent.
ANDY SPEARS It will cannibalize, but the difference is you have a 50 percent tax rate and you have a slot parlor...
WILLIAM SCHMITT Over the years, a lot of people have paid tax. Now they want to reclaim it.
MIKE WARBURTON It hurts my heart that you are paying capital gains tax every year. I recommend that you consider co...
DIANE ROLFSMEYER Most people treat IRA contributions like they're paying a bill. They should think about it as paying...
ED SLOTT Fifty percent of it is strength and the other 50 percent is mental. Later in the season it becomes e...
ADAM BRINK![]()
As of the mid-90s, over 50 percent of women have a bachelor's and master's degree, compared ...
PETER DIAMANDIS The county executive believes this legislative agenda will address the multi-tiered level of fraud t...
ED DUMAS It is true my friend, that you are paying the tax as well as losing your hair, but try to imagine a ...
DR HITESH C SHETH![]()
The Net used to be 50 percent men and 50 percent men pretending to be women,
MARC ANDREESSEN![]()
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twen...
STEW LEONARD![]()
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twen...
HENRY KISSINGER Intel's 75 percent increase in capital spending to $6 billion in 2000 is finally paying dividends. W...
DANIEL NILES The Philadelphia Stock Exchange Semiconductor Index last week had a 20 percent move in six trading d...
BRIAN FINNERTY![]()
The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.
THOMAS DEWAR You just want to win by one. To win by over 50 percent is especially gratifying.
ANDREW CUOMO![]()
Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indi...
ELAINE CHAO However you look at it, among voters nationwide or early primary state Democratic voters in particul...
LANCE TARRANCE Our previous view ascribed a 50 percent to 60 percent probability to a Delta Chapter 11 filing. We n...
MICHAEL LINENBERG We're not unlike your average bag of potato chips, 20 percent to 30 percent air. What you're paying ...
GIDEON YAGO There was a 50 percent chance that one would even take and I think less than a 5 percent chance that...
AIMEE JOHNSON Things are very profitable at IBM. There aren't too many companies of that size that are earning ove...
MARC HEILWEIL The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of th...
JOHN MCCAIN Two years ago we did an on-site survey of 1,700 homes. We had 25 percent that could have survived a ...
LARRY SOUTHARD The language of America changed with the election of Bill Clinton, because with all due respect to m...
FRANK LUNTZ We have a responsibility to do this. How are we going to pay for it? By tax dollars. On a tax dollar...
ROD RUDDOCK![]()
we are well on our way to our goal of 50 percent online - and actually think that after 50 percent i...
MICHAEL DELL We're taking on Wall Street. We're buying 50 percent over the minimum number of shares required to s...
BRUCE FRIEDRICH How can you morally support a bill that allows government to pawn our state assets like a junkie eac...
BRENDA BUSTER About 35 percent of our business used to be entry-level buyers. That's about 10 percent now, and tha...
BOB ADAMS It's also important to know that when taxes go unpaid, the IRS can place a lien on your assets. Unpa...
MAXINE SWEET![]()
Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus...
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER I will vote against any bill that takes Social Security tax dollars and diverts them to any other pu...
ROB SIMMONS Thirty-three percent from 3-point is just as good as 50 percent from the field. And we live by those...
MARK CAMPBELL It's 50 percent for softball, 50 percent for fun. It allows us to see some quality teams and play in...
DALE BUVID Delivering on our long-term commitment to enhance shareholder value, this is Devon's third consecuti...
J. LARRY NICHOLS I've owned my house for three years, and in those three years, the property tax bill has increased $...
MATT LOY It pushes developers significantly but not too much. (Fifteen percent) is obviously a financially so...
JIM WARD We believe that this tax rate, at 20 percent, is a significant increase in tax and may lead us to no...
RICHARD OWEN At the time of a person's death, much of their savings, business assets or farm assets have already ...
WAYNE ALLARD There were some nice looks, we just couldn't get some things taken care of. My job is 50-50. One par...
ALGE CRUMPLER The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of ...
RIC KELLER Free throws have been killing us. We just shooting over 50 percent from the free throw line.
ALANA ERICKSON
JAMES MIRRLEES Currently, they have frozen our bank accounts, they've frozen our assets, so that we are unable to a...
BRUCE MISAMORE Imagine a 40-to-50 percent sales tax -- that would cheer everybody up,
ROBERT MCINTYRE These investors, who comprise over 60 percent of the equity market, prefer companies to convert busi...
JACK MINTZ The poorest 40 percent of Hawaii residents, those with incomes under $31,000, would receive only 20 ...
JASON LEVITIS They're paying a full price relative to the value of other Russian oil assets. It's difficult to say...
CHRISTOPHER WEAFER I've been paying a lot of money in state income taxes, and I've been happy to do it, but whe...
TOM GOLISANO The average means 50 percent of the time, we're over that, and 50 percent of the time, we're under t...
JIM ROBERTSON There is an old adage that the quickest way to drop your tax take is to increase taxes. If capital g...
PETER HARGREAVES Because of the way this form used to work, it calculated the tax as if you had received the money ov...
CINDY HOCKENBERRY If taxes are owed, a delay in filing may result in penalty and interest charges that could increase ...
BILL STEINER By selling now, you can lock in losses and reduce your child's 2001 tax bill, ... And your college s...
KALMAN CHANY You replace it by 23 percent tax, a frank, transparent tax embedded in the cost at retail, and every...
JOHN LINDER It's really impossible to argue that this tax bill simplifies the tax system. It's because of the ac...
JOEL SLEMROD
To the extent societal rules or the wiring of your brains make it easy to acquire a lot of assets, t... MOHNISH PABRAI
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD Right now, our customers are about 50 percent public sector and 50 percent private sector.
RICHARD CALLAHAN Fully 93 percent of the tax relief in our bill goes to taxpayers with annual incomes under $100,000,...
BILL ARCHER I don't wish to imply that there aren't good things about you or that you're not an extraordinary pe...
GEORGE TSARGAS "NOW THAT IT'S OVER" Federal and provincial programs that benefit the city of Ottawa are financed by hard working, tax pa...
SEAN MCKENNY There are thresholds that you cannot step over, as if beyond lie the ghosts of those passed, as if t...
MARIANA FULGER The exit polls are great. Sixty percent of the audience were males. It was 50 percent over-25 and 50...
DAN FELLMAN We strongly encourage people to purchase because 50 percent goes to the artist ... and the other 50 ...
DENNIS PAUL BATT We pushed that blocking sled all over the field, ... We didn't like it, but it's paying off right no...
KYLE BROWN I used to think business was 50 percent having the right people. Now I think it's 80 percent.
KEVIN P. RYAN We have 85 percent of our fuel bill hedged at $26 a barrel. Because we were able to purchase insuran...
BETH HARBIN It's a victory for those who refused the offer because it would leave them with a huge tax bill.
ANGELA KNIGHT The general rule is to use up your outside assets first and let assets continue to grow in this wond...
BARBARA RAASCH Basically, all Creedmoor has to offer us is a tax bill.
RANDY PERRY The only thing worse than paying income tax is not paying income tax
DONALD MACLEOD I've seen my practice mature and probably 50 percent to 60 percent of the pregnancies are over the a...
DR. CRANSTON CEDERLIND
First of all, I only get 50 percent of it, because, I mean, the galleries get 50 and 60 percent. I m... ANTHONY QUINN Tae kwon do and karate are basically the same. It depends on the teacher. Karate is 80 percent with ...
PETER MORALES The most common question over the last year is how to choose the best tax structure and how to prote...
GENE FAIRBROTHER It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but...
RICHARD NEAL When things are clicking, we are a very good team. Right now we're clicking about 50 percent of the ...
JODI MANORE If you owe money it will be added to your tax bill. If you expect a refund it will be deducted.
GRETCHEN DYKSTRA In some school they go by percentages, where all the cheerleaders with a certain (judging) percentag...
CHRISTY HARRELL I said to her, what if we could turn all those visitors into 50 million ambassadors? She jumped all ...
ROGER DOW This is a policy I strongly recommend. If your employer covers 50 percent to 60 percent for it, pay ...
KEN THOMPSON It is vital that we continuously look closely at all of our manufacturing assets to ensure alignment...
WERNER BREUERS Now they are less than 50 percent confident that there will be any rise.
MARC CHANDLER We've seen our vehicle donation drop by over 40 percent this year, and it's all a direct result of t...
BRENDAN HURLEY One week later the people who were told he was a jerk remembered a higher bill -- from 10 percent to...
DAVID PIZARRO
All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the U... THOMAS PIKETTY You're talking a 40 percent increase in taxes. Anytime political leaders decide they want to give vo...
TED MATTHEWS I think it fully likely that Lukashenko got over 50 percent, but 82 percent is just unreal. It is of...
OLEG MANAEV For him not to even break (50 percent), not to even approach it, says all you need to say. In five '...
HUNTER BACOT Unless it's over 50 percent, I'm always skeptical. It could pass. It could fail. You can't really ma...
BRAD COKER
Balance the federal budget now, not 15 years from now, not 20 years from now, but now. And throw out... GARY JOHNSON Forty percent are cured and 50 percent are significantly improved. The other 10 percent have issues ...
ANIELA ORR And rates are not likely to be adjusting downward. Households are paying about 13.75 percent of thei...
PAUL KASRIEL Those are what we typically see in the E.R.. Some 40 to 50 percent of what comes through the E.R. ov...
DR. DAVID KOVACIK The opposition is quite often saying nobody's paying this tax and wealthy families just want to get ...
ALEX CROCKETT
Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three yea... CHRISTINA ROMER It used to be a 25 percent local, 75 percent federal and state grant. This year, for the first time,...
LARRY JARRELL I think we're behind, I do. A lot of schools are way over 50 percent.
ANDY SPEARS It will cannibalize, but the difference is you have a 50 percent tax rate and you have a slot parlor...
WILLIAM SCHMITT Over the years, a lot of people have paid tax. Now they want to reclaim it.
MIKE WARBURTON It hurts my heart that you are paying capital gains tax every year. I recommend that you consider co...
DIANE ROLFSMEYER Most people treat IRA contributions like they're paying a bill. They should think about it as paying...
ED SLOTT Fifty percent of it is strength and the other 50 percent is mental. Later in the season it becomes e...
ADAM BRINK
As of the mid-90s, over 50 percent of women have a bachelor's and master's degree, compared ... PETER DIAMANDIS The county executive believes this legislative agenda will address the multi-tiered level of fraud t...
ED DUMAS It is true my friend, that you are paying the tax as well as losing your hair, but try to imagine a ...
DR HITESH C SHETH
The Net used to be 50 percent men and 50 percent men pretending to be women, MARC ANDREESSEN
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twen... STEW LEONARD
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twen... HENRY KISSINGER Intel's 75 percent increase in capital spending to $6 billion in 2000 is finally paying dividends. W...
DANIEL NILES The Philadelphia Stock Exchange Semiconductor Index last week had a 20 percent move in six trading d...
BRIAN FINNERTY
The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax. THOMAS DEWAR You just want to win by one. To win by over 50 percent is especially gratifying.
ANDREW CUOMO
Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indi... ELAINE CHAO However you look at it, among voters nationwide or early primary state Democratic voters in particul...
LANCE TARRANCE Our previous view ascribed a 50 percent to 60 percent probability to a Delta Chapter 11 filing. We n...
MICHAEL LINENBERG We're not unlike your average bag of potato chips, 20 percent to 30 percent air. What you're paying ...
GIDEON YAGO There was a 50 percent chance that one would even take and I think less than a 5 percent chance that...
AIMEE JOHNSON Things are very profitable at IBM. There aren't too many companies of that size that are earning ove...
MARC HEILWEIL The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of th...
JOHN MCCAIN Two years ago we did an on-site survey of 1,700 homes. We had 25 percent that could have survived a ...
LARRY SOUTHARD The language of America changed with the election of Bill Clinton, because with all due respect to m...
FRANK LUNTZ We have a responsibility to do this. How are we going to pay for it? By tax dollars. On a tax dollar...
ROD RUDDOCK
we are well on our way to our goal of 50 percent online - and actually think that after 50 percent i... MICHAEL DELL We're taking on Wall Street. We're buying 50 percent over the minimum number of shares required to s...
BRUCE FRIEDRICH How can you morally support a bill that allows government to pawn our state assets like a junkie eac...
BRENDA BUSTER About 35 percent of our business used to be entry-level buyers. That's about 10 percent now, and tha...
BOB ADAMS It's also important to know that when taxes go unpaid, the IRS can place a lien on your assets. Unpa...
MAXINE SWEET
Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus... ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER I will vote against any bill that takes Social Security tax dollars and diverts them to any other pu...
ROB SIMMONS Thirty-three percent from 3-point is just as good as 50 percent from the field. And we live by those...
MARK CAMPBELL It's 50 percent for softball, 50 percent for fun. It allows us to see some quality teams and play in...
DALE BUVID Delivering on our long-term commitment to enhance shareholder value, this is Devon's third consecuti...
J. LARRY NICHOLS I've owned my house for three years, and in those three years, the property tax bill has increased $...
MATT LOY It pushes developers significantly but not too much. (Fifteen percent) is obviously a financially so...
JIM WARD We believe that this tax rate, at 20 percent, is a significant increase in tax and may lead us to no...
RICHARD OWEN At the time of a person's death, much of their savings, business assets or farm assets have already ...
WAYNE ALLARD There were some nice looks, we just couldn't get some things taken care of. My job is 50-50. One par...
ALGE CRUMPLER The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of ...
RIC KELLER Free throws have been killing us. We just shooting over 50 percent from the free throw line.
ALANA ERICKSON
The U.S. has the power to block all anti-Israel moves in the Security Council, not just some of them... 
During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner... 
The mishandling of the would-be airplane bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab's visa is only the la... 
You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening. 
When eating an elephant take one bite at a time. 
They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards. 