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When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.


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PLATO The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.
THOMAS DEWAR Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax.
LORD THOMAS DEWAR Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax.
THOMAS ROBERT DEWAR All taxes, except a 'lump-sum tax,' introduce distortions in the economy. But no government ...
ROBERT J. SHILLER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The EITC is a credit based on earned income. To qualify, the individual must be working and must be ...
JUDY GRESSER Research has shown that middle-income wage earners would benefit most from a large reduction in corp...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW You should calculate your tax return both ways (including and not including combat pay as earned inc...
MARK STEBER The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
ALBERT EINSTEIN There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income.
WILL ROGERS The only thing worse than paying income tax is not paying income tax
DONALD MACLEOD The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax wa...
ALAN KEYES Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.
JOHN CORNYN We will attract more people to Kentucky by lowering our income tax rate. In fact, lowering the incom...
ERNIE FLETCHER If you took the sales-tax deduction instead of the income-tax deduction when you itemized, then your...
BOB SCHARIN A lot of people are talking about the fact that the income tax is a more progressive tax, because it...
PATTI PAWLING Tax revenues are going to be lower. Fewer people will have jobs, fewer people will pay income tax, m...
PAUL DONOVAN Obama and Clinton wrongly believe that the corporate income tax is a tax on the rich. The reality is...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW The income tax is a slave tax,
ALAN KEYES Because the consumer did not have to pay the amount, it is income in the eyes of the IRS.
CINDY HOCKENBERRY A lot of people believe that when they pay that 2 percent to Columbus, we're getting some of it, but...
DAVE LINDIMORE Today it takes more brains and effort to make out the income tax form than it does to make the incom...
ALFRED NEUMAN Today it takes more brains and effort to make out the income tax form than it does to make the incom...
ALFRED E. NEUMAN Any reductions we have in upper-income taxes will be offset by less deductions so that there will be...
STEVE MNUCHIN Actually we were trying to start the income tax season a little early. The income tax season is our ...
CRAIG COOPER I support both a Fair Tax and a Flat Tax plan that would dramatically streamline the tax system. A F...
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ELLEN RUSSELL Individual income tax is due on April 15, filing and payment. The real property tax deadline is Febr...
ART ILAGAN We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income ...
JOE SCARBOROUGH We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxe...
JOE SCARBOROUGH We will lower the tax burden on middle-class Americans by asking the very wealthy to pay their fair ...
, "PUTTING PEOPLE FIRST", 1992 The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
WILL ROGERS Residents in the complex cannot pay more than 30 percent of their gross income for rent. The highest...
DAVE COOPER [On balance, though, according to the Dow Jones report, taxpayers would pay no more or no less than ...
CHARLES ROSSOTTI In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.
P. CHIDAMBARAM Income tax time is when you test your powers of deduction.
SHELBY FRIEDMAN If income tax is the price you have to pay to keep the government on its feet, alimony is the price ...
GROUCHO MARX Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf.
WILL ROGERS The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
BARRY GOLDWATER And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly l...
ALFRED MARSHALL There is a willingness in the market to pay for income.
JOSEPH BETLEJ They can't change the AMT tax consequences of that $55 that they made in virtual income when they ex...
CLAUDIA HILL And what's interesting, and I don't think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that, ...
GEORGE W. BUSH The death tax is growing increasingly unpopular with the American people, and it's for obvious reaso...
TIM HUTCHINSON We're getting focused on the income tax as a base.
CONNIE MACK I think everyone believes the income tax system is not too understandable. I'm proposing the flat ta...
CHARLES WEASEL LEAP is intended to help low-income residents pay their bills, not cover the whole amount. Of course...
GLENN COOPER The Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
WILL ROGERS There is a direct correlation between the number of people employed at the paper mill and our income...
MATT ALLEN And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hard...
ALFRED MARSHALL Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have ...
PAUL RYAN If you have a value-added tax you will have bigger government. When the dust settled 10 years in the...
DANIEL MITCHELL Every one of the best tax systems raises sufficient revenue without imposing at least one of the thr...
CURTIS DUBAY There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!
NAT KING COLE No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their ta...
JOE BIDEN There's no hope that a high income state ever will be able to draw back the same amount of funds the...
CURTIS DUBAY The whole property tax discussion is about reform ... moving the property tax system to an income ta...
DON HELLER If Government see herself as a shareholder in every business & not just a tax collector,she will end...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) In 2010 the U.S. will have a payroll tax rate increase, an estate tax increase, and income tax incre...
ARTHUR LAFFER We're going to accept the 2005, and within the 2005 the Earned Income Tax Credit will be allowed in ...
ART ILAGAN There are more buyers and customers in the medium income bracket than there are in the upper income ...
BEN JOHNSON (SALES) Everyone else is parsing it in terms of lowering the corporate income tax. Eliminate it. It's no...
GARY JOHNSON In this country, we have partnerships, we have S corps, we have LLCs, we have a series of entities t...
AUSTAN GOOLSBEE This shake-up of the personal income tax scale would boost incentives for lower-income earners to pa...
HEATHER RIDOUT When you look at 26 pay periods on average and divide that into $70, it's really not going to be hug...
GARY GUDMUNDSON The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. Even when you make a tax form out on ...
WILL ROGERS I don't see any purpose in a gross receipts tax. It's inequitable. The best way to tax a business is...
MICHAEL GRANOF Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.
MIKE ROYKO The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not onl...
BARNEY FRANK What you do by having an income tax rate reduction across the board, you really provide great incent...
ARTHUR LAFFER What I do is allow middle-income families to finally be able to save their money tax-free. No tax on...
MITT ROMNEY The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
ALBERT EINSTEIN The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
ALBERT EINSTEIN The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax
ALBERT EINSTEIN The trade-offs involved are shifting more of the tax burden onto middle-income folks or cutting prog...
JOEL FRIEDMAN The trade-offs involved are shifting more of the tax burden onto middle-income folks or cutting prog...
JOEL FRIEDMAN If you're a married couple filing jointly and the total amount of income is $50,000 or less, then yo...
BILL BRUNSON The third alternative is to take a chance -- estimate what your income will be, and pay that.
LAURENCE FOSTER The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.
HERMAN WOUK High tax rates distort economic decision making, and our corporate income tax rate is one of the hig...
JASON CHAFFETZ Associated British Ports has got an asset base in the ports, a security of income and a consistency ...
ALASTAIR GUNN Buying power, we know, is one key signal of the growth and size of the vital GLBT consumer market. I...
DON MONTUORI And when the income tax was introduced, she was the first person to sue the government over taxes.
HUTTON WILKINSON The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a ta...
WILL ROGERS The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a ta...
WILL ROGERS The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE This would be a tax increase on low and middle-income Americans.
DAN GRISWOLD In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federa...
VIRGIL GOODE Pay off your mortgage before retirement, and that's one less bill you'll have to worry about...
SUZE ORMAN Low-income families who file at the VITA site may qualify for a substantial Earned Income Tax Credit...
JUDY GRESSER There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you th...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Eastern Washington families and businesses should be able to deduct every penny of state and local s...
CATHY MCMORRIS Eastern Washington families and businesses should be able to deduct every penny of state and local s...
CATHY MCMORRIS RODGERS The state doesn't match anything on anything or give you any financial incentive besides the tax bre...
KYLE HERRMAN Our economy works really well without an income or a sales tax.
MAGGIE HASSAN Hating the (New York) Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your incom...
MIKE ROYKO An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.
FRED ALLEN An income tax form is like a laundry list -- either way you lose your shirt.
FRED ALLEN Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.
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