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marketing scheme designed to make last year's unpopular tax cut more palatable.


Richard Gephardt

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I wouldn't want (tax breaks) to last for more than five to 10 years.
DONALD GARNER We tried to make it so it's more palatable for the community.
DENNIS TURNER You're going to see more marketing dollars spent on baseball cards in 2006 than in the last 25 years...
COLIN HAGEN The scheme was designed to mislead analysts and the investing public.
ALICE FISHER Peppering your relationship with a dash of mystery can make it far more palatable.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN The tax cut we put in place for next year is relatively modest. We probably can swallow that OK, but...
ROBERT REISCHAUER Twenty years ago people weren't aware of it as a profession, ... Now the first question in the marke...
TOM DOAK He got a tax cut of $100,000 and you only got $1.
PETER COSTELLO A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con.
TONY ABBOTT The experience last year told us that to see only one player into the final round is not enough. I h...
ZHANG LIANWEI The death tax is growing increasingly unpopular with the American people, and it's for obvious reaso...
TIM HUTCHINSON The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase.
GROVER NORQUIST We are absolutely determined to fight for what we believe is a much fairer tax cut and a much more c...
JOHN MCCALLUM It's broad. It's low and it's designed to be easy to understand. It gets government out of 'let's ma...
EDWARD HILL Last week, the president suggested his tax cut will solve energy crisis. That is a bizarre and disco...
ROSA DELAURO Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.
MIKE FITZPATRICK Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.
WILLIAM MCILVANNEY It's making it more palatable for citizens.
JIM SULLIVAN The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing cer...
RICHARD NEAL This whole scheme that the governor's coming up with is going to make everybody pay more taxes we're...
DAN CURTIS I haven't seen this kind of support [for a tax cut] in the 26 years I've been in Congress.
BILL ARCHER Economic development is what's going to make mountaintop removal palatable.
JOE MANCHIN WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.
JULIAN ASSANGE My healthcare plan puts more money into average families' pockets than the Bush tax cuts... He&#...
DICK GEPHARDT Clearly everyone wants a tax cut but you can't have a tax cut for a surplus that you don't have,
CHARLES RANGEL Now is not the time to further tax cuts for millionaires which would cost $32 billion a year or more...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN Women's fiction is just a marketing category, designed to appeal more to women than to men. But ther...
KRISTINE GRAYSON I think we need a tax cut,
RICHARD GEPHARDT It's designed to make it more fun to do the right thing.
ROB MEYER In your efforts to cut costs and save money, avoid getting caught up in the "buy more, save more" ma...
JACQUIE ROSS Their offensive line is a very good, a very hard-working group [that works well] together. Their zon...
TOM COUGHLIN I'm all in favor of the tax cuts, but I think that the administration has to eat their spinach along...
CHRIS EDWARDS The small difference that the property tax cut would make (could determine whether) someone qualifie...
BARBARA TARIN The whole school would like to thank Richard and Debbie, Debbie for years and years of service, Rich...
CAROL MORRIS It's going to be a very targeted tax cut program that I think is going to make a meaningful differen...
FRANKLIN RAINES I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.
RANDY NEWMAN Over the last twenty or thirty years, which in the scheme of things is fast, we've become comfortabl...
TOM FORD I believe tax cuts should be responsible and targeted, ... This year, Congress is working on last ye...
AMERICAN SOCIETY For starters, let's dispense with the cheap jokes about cannibalism. That means cracks about giv...
MITCHELL ZUCKOFF The deflation concerns give ammunition to the president's tax cut,
SUNG WON SOHN This is not a short-term campaign. It is a long-term initiative designed to strengthen our brand, em...
AL GIOMBETTI One more solid salvo from the Fed, combined with a tax cut, could be the combustible combination to ...
ALAN ACKERMAN Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut h...
PAUL RYAN Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. An...
DANIEL H. PINK It will make tax controversies more expensive, more intrusive and more inconvenient for taxpayers.
KENT CONRAD If this happens, then the whole purpose of the A-tax . is basically moot. The system was designed to...
FRANS MUSTERT We have cut taxes 15 times the last six years, an aggregate of a billion dollars.
BILL WELD Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when...
MIKE PENCE It amounts to an annual tax cut. Taxes are never low enough.
BRAD YOUNG Why would we want to keep a tax cut that's failed? Why would we not want to go back to the Clinton t...
DICK GEPHARDT The nourishment is palatable.
MILLARD FILLMORE It is wrong to use aviation taxes to finance a general tax cut,
BUD SHUSTER Over twenty years, we expect to generate about $80 million or more in sales tax revenue.
BOB KOVITZ There has been a shift in marketing focus over the last few years. Women are now not simply spenders...
AMAR ZAHID We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels.
DICK ARMEY There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moro...
DAR WILLIAMS The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.
WILLIAM E. SIMON [Missing the cut at the Nelson] was probably more disappointing, because I bogeyed the last hole and...
TIGER WOODS Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic ...
BILL DELAHUNT Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it wi...
TERRENCE HOWARD because it lures women in with a marketing scheme that purports feminism, when in actuality the sole...
THE BRAVERY Many Republicans have what I call a 'tax-cut syndrome' where they have never seen a tax cut ...
PETER GEORGE PETERSON The last start of spring training, my (cut fastball) was okay. It just wasn't what I wanted it to be...
ROY HALLADAY Common sense told us that when you put a big tax on something, the people will produce less of it. S...
RONALD REAGAN When everyone thinks something is true, it does not make it anything more than effective marketing.
CLIFTON HILL That was how it was designed. It wasn't a last resort. It was designed to be a run.
BRADY QUINN The tax code is just as complex as last year, if not a bit more so.
SOPHIE BECKMANN Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to ele...
DICK MORRIS Generally speaking, tax credits are designed to encourage certain activity. Or sometimes they are al...
KURT KAWAFUCHI Like what's going to happen to the income tax cut that Mr. Martin brought in.
LINDA SIMS Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirt...
PEG BRACKEN Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirt...
PEG BRACKEN Democratic amendments led to a package with a smaller tax cut, far more resources for paying down th...
KENT CONRAD The incurably suspicious Arthur Lee, youngest brother of Richard Henry, was of opinion that what oth...
DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 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 Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and ...
KENNETH BLACKWELL Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the p...
RAND PAUL There's a right way and a wrong way to cut taxes. The Republican tax cuts reward the few, our tax cu...
TOM DASCHLE In last 25 years, Famous Footwear was the most compelling growth vehicle that this corporation had. ...
ANDREW ROSEN The only thing more unpopular than private accounts was benefit cuts.
BRAD WOODHOUSE I can assure you that the House Ways and Means Committee has not abandoned trying to extend the divi...
JIM MCCRERY A cobbler, . . . produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for...
JOSEPH ADDISON Richard Fliehr does not make any money.
RIC FLAIR He's healthy and playing a lot faster and more aggressive than he was last year, ... He looks as if ...
DARREN SHARPER I think we've got to try our best to come together, to collaborate, try to move this budget in the r...
RICHARD GEPHARDT I don't think most members have figured out how they are going to vote for it,
RICHARD GEPHARDT Obviously, you don't get everything you want, ... But I think [the committee] threaded the needle in...
RICHARD GEPHARDT I don't think there is a way to prove that, but I think we all suspect that, ... I think it is clear...
RICHARD GEPHARDT I think there's a sense of urgency about getting this done and getting it done by next Tuesday when ...
RICHARD GEPHARDT If you want to live like a Republican, you have to vote for Democrats
RICHARD GEPHARDT We're not playing games here.
RICHARD GEPHARDT I have enormous friendship and respect with Tom Daschle. Always have had and always will have. And I...
RICHARD GEPHARDT My fear is that the Republican reaction to this is negative, ... It's clear to me that the Republica...
RICHARD GEPHARDT And politically he has to stand the consequences with his constituents in California, who he is goin...
RICHARD GEPHARDT This is a partisan process,
RICHARD GEPHARDT If you want to live like a Republican, you have to vote for Democrats.
RICHARD GEPHARDT Unbending to consensus, uninterested in collaboration and compromise, they refuse to think anew and ...
RICHARD GEPHARDT I must tell you I am ashamed when top leaders in this country and citizens of this country and even ...
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RICHARD ENGEL When I take risks now, I do so only when I have to and with every precaution. I used to prospect for...
RICHARD ENGEL Everything changed with the First World War. The Middle East was reorganized, redefined, and the see...
RICHARD ENGEL MOST OF THE NATIONS OF the Middle East can be divided into those with long histories and no oil, and...
RICHARD ENGEL ...in the assassination of three of its first four caliphs, the “successors” to Mohammed and rul...
RICHARD ENGEL The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a bri...
RICHARD BRANSON The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current d...
RICHARD CORLISS I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaki...
RICHARD DONNER There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing...
RICHARD DAWKINS Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small ...
RICHARD THALHEIMER Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not real...
RICHARD FEYNMAN As the enjoyment of God is the heaven of the Saints, so the loss of God is the hell of the ungodly. ...
RICHARD BAXTER Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 I apprehended it a Matter o...
RICHARD BAXTER Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 Lord, it belongs not to my car...
RICHARD BAXTER Ye holy angels bright, Who wait at God's right hand, Or through the realms of light Fly at your L...
RICHARD BAXTER Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass....
RICHARD PETTY