A lot of people are talking about the fact that the income tax is a more progressive tax, because it's based on your ability to pay in so far as your salary goes.
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Related Tax revenues are going to be lower. Fewer people will have jobs, fewer people will pay income tax, m... PAUL DONOVAN The whole property tax discussion is about reform ... moving the property tax system to an income ta... DON HELLER What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property. THOMAS PIKETTY 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 What you do by having an income tax rate reduction across the board, you really provide great incent... ARTHUR LAFFER And what's interesting, and I don't think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that, ... GEORGE W. BUSH Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have ... PAUL RYAN The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not onl... BARNEY FRANK You should calculate your tax return both ways (including and not including combat pay as earned inc... MARK STEBER We will attract more people to Kentucky by lowering our income tax rate. In fact, lowering the incom... ERNIE FLETCHER When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of in... PLATO Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform. JOHN CORNYN If you were to look at Alaska simply with its corporate tax code compared to the rest of the United ... SCOTT HODGE Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax. MIKE ROYKO If you took the sales-tax deduction instead of the income-tax deduction when you itemized, then your... BOB SCHARIN Obama and Clinton wrongly believe that the corporate income tax is a tax on the rich. The reality is... LAWRENCE KUDLOW The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth withou... THOMAS PIKETTY If income tax is the price you have to pay to keep the government on its feet, alimony is the price ... GROUCHO MARX Hating the (New York) Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your incom... MIKE ROYKO The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a ta... WILL ROGERS Tax-preparation time can be significantly reduced if you develop a system for organizing your record... GLORIA WAJCIECHOWSKI When there is an income tax, the just will pay more and the unjust less PLATO The death tax is growing increasingly unpopular with the American people, and it's for obvious reaso... TIM HUTCHINSON The income tax is a slave tax, ALAN KEYES Why not put a tax on carbon emissions. It would raise a lot of money, it would reduce the environmen... ROBERT F. ENGLE In some ways, the sales tax is fairer. A retired person living on a fixed salary, their property tax... DON CROSBY The state of Virginia gets its primary revenues from income tax. Virginia, as a state, has very litt... HORACE COOPER As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all ... CHRISTINE LAGARDE Income tax time is when you test your powers of deduction. SHELBY FRIEDMAN We will lower the tax burden on middle-class Americans by asking the very wealthy to pay their fair ... , "PUTTING PEOPLE FIRST", 1992 I support both a Fair Tax and a Flat Tax plan that would dramatically streamline the tax system. A F... RALPH HALL I think everyone believes the income tax system is not too understandable. I'm proposing the flat ta... CHARLES WEASEL I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any for... BARACK OBAMA I think we should have basically the same tax policy that Germany, Japan, the U.K., everybody else h... JEFFREY R. IMMELT The same computers that make it impossible for you to cheat on your income tax can ensure that the b... JOHN BRUNNER We're getting focused on the income tax as a base. CONNIE MACK 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 Higher income earners are more likely to be audited because there is more tax money at stake, ... Th... ERIC TYSON There's clearly a Democratic dilemma, ... But while other Democrats are debating how to change the B... JOE LIEBERMAN We have a responsibility to do this. How are we going to pay for it? By tax dollars. On a tax dollar... ROD RUDDOCK Research has shown that middle-income wage earners would benefit most from a large reduction in corp... LAWRENCE KUDLOW Since the federal individual income tax imposes the largest tax burden on the broadest group of farm... JACK KING If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would ... MICHAEL BLOOMBERG It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progre... ROBERT W. WELCH, JR. I am in agreement with income-tax protesters that the tax, as commonly applied, is unconstitutional,... G. EDWARD GRIFFIN What is happening here is that your state and local tax dollars are being used to hire a lobbyist as... ED FRANK 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 It is as if you had a second job and are paying income tax on it. BRUCE NORRIS Low-income Canadians benefit relatively little from these tax cuts, yet they may be hurt a great dea... ELLEN RUSSELL A Labour government would also bring about a generational change in tax collection, shifting taxatio... JOSEPH MUSCAT Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citize... BILL WELD There are many people who think we should have zero tax on capital gains, interest and dividends for... MITT ROMNEY Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income ta... WILLIAM L. JENKINS If you want something good, you're going to have to pay for it. It's not a huge tax increase, but th... TRACEY ANDERS Our community sends a lot of income tax money to the State of Wisconsin. COLIN BUTLER I don't see any purpose in a gross receipts tax. It's inequitable. The best way to tax a business is... MICHAEL GRANOF Your tax returns on a yearly basis don't tell you what you're worth. What they show is what ... COREY LEWANDOWSKI Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf. WILL ROGERS Actually we were trying to start the income tax season a little early. The income tax season is our ... CRAIG COOPER Because of the way this form used to work, it calculated the tax as if you had received the money ov... CINDY HOCKENBERRY The only thing worse than paying income tax is not paying income tax DONALD MACLEOD The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a ta... WILL ROGERS We are not talking about a tax issue, we are talking about a constitutional requirement. MELISSA MERZ Those governmental services being in Old Town helped give this place its lifeblood. One of the neat ... JAY MACANIFF Puerto Rico loses out on billions of dollars annually because it is treated unequally under a range ... PEDRO PIERLUISI The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger governm... CARLY FIORINA 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 proposal would limit your ability to get any tax break for the mortgage interest you pay. Econom... JERRY HOWARD All taxes, except a 'lump-sum tax,' introduce distortions in the economy. But no government ... ROBERT J. SHILLER 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 God forbid that the United Kingdom should take a lead and introduce a sensible tax system of its own... NIGEL LAWSON Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this pr... JOHN SHADEGG You've got to watch your income this year like no other year, ... Your Tax Questions Answered. ED SLOTT It is totally about tax cuts. Our current deficits are not the result of critical spending to help l... SCOTT MCCOWN As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three cu... TIMOTHY FERRISS Although the ability [of these exploits] to spread is mitigated by the fact that they're all Web bas... DAN HUBBARD You won't have to pay property taxes on your car, which is a regressive tax. Let's work on reforming... FRANK SZEPS Most importantly, include potential tax payments in your budget of expenses. Plan ahead to pay taxes... CATE WILLIAMS A lot of people believe that when they pay that 2 percent to Columbus, we're getting some of it, but... DAVE LINDIMORE 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 Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. WILL ROGERS It sends $3 of your tax money that you already pay into the fund. It sends a message that Maine peop... ALISON SMITH I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco...... J. K. ROWLING It's a very serious negative item on your report, on par with a tax lien or a bankruptcy. You will d... MAXINE SWEET In 2010 the U.S. will have a payroll tax rate increase, an estate tax increase, and income tax incre... ARTHUR LAFFER I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporat... ALLEN WEST Our economy is robust and will remain strong as more Americans who want a job find one. Republican e... DENNIS HASTERT Well, there's a lot of types of tax cuts in the menu ... Some people are talking about an across-the... DENNIS HASTERT You can still mail your payment in on Saturday, and new this year, you can pay by credit card on the... GARY BARBER The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax wa... ALAN KEYES The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. Even when you make a tax form out on ... WILL ROGERS 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) I think people are focusing more on the taxes, the increase in taxes, so there's a lot of discussion... GARY KUROKAWA A majority of Americans support Social Security and Medicare, a progressive tax system and a governm... ADAM DAVIDSON It's really impossible to argue that this tax bill simplifies the tax system. It's because of the ac... JOEL SLEMROD
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