The Federal Mafia: How the Government Illegally Imposes and Unlawfully Collects Income Taxes.
Irwin Schiff
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KELLY JONES When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three cho...
RON PAUL The federal government has exempted poor working families from income taxes since the 1980s because ...
JASON LEVITIS After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. ...
PAT TOOMEY And when the income tax was introduced, she was the first person to sue the government over taxes.
HUTTON WILKINSON Since the federal individual income tax imposes the largest tax burden on the broadest group of farm...
JACK KING Poverty is a national issue and needs a federal response. After all, U.S. federal government policie...
DONNA BRAZILE The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax wa...
ALAN KEYES Every one of the best tax systems raises sufficient revenue without imposing at least one of the thr...
CURTIS DUBAY Despite the tax cuts passed by the federal government, Americans will spend more on taxes than they ...
SCOTT HODGE The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes ar...
G. EDWARD GRIFFIN Puerto Rico loses out on billions of dollars annually because it is treated unequally under a range ...
PEDRO PIERLUISI Between income taxes and employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, prope...
CHUCK NORRIS They have two extra days for federal taxes because the 15th falls on a Saturday.
GLORIA WAJCIECHOWSKI Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce thin...
HA-JOON CHANG In 2008, Goldman Sachs only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit o...
BERNIE SANDERS How many of you want the federal government out of your paycheck?
NEAL BOORTZ As president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to ...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER It was the finest piece of legislation ever passed. Just in income taxes alone, the government got b...
ANTHONY STASIO If the county has some form of income tax like the city, then it would be a much more likely option....
ED DUMAS Next to taxes it's the single biggest income for the county.
JACK SULLIVAN The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at...
BARTON GELLMAN Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, prope...
LUIS GUTIERREZ Once consumers file online, they tend to stay online. The number of people filing their federal taxe...
LYNN FRANCO The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.
RONALD REAGAN For example, a taxpayer in the 25 percent marginal tax bracket would save $250 in taxes by making a ...
JAMES WITTENBACH Income and sales taxes are both collected in dribs and drabs.
BILL AHERN No school board member in this state likes raising taxes, but if we're not properly funded by the st...
LARRY FEINBERG If you are born into a family below the national median income, we provide you with an additional $5...
HAROLD FORD, JR. The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not d...
DARRELL ISSA Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have ...
PAUL RYAN He believes this will bring some fiscal accountability to the federal government. It does that witho...
ERIK IVERSON American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxe...
JIM DEMINT 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 We are extremely grateful to the federal government for their quick response regarding this issue. E...
JAY CLARK How can the federal government feed its employees with catered meals and not feed the victims of Hur...
COLLEEN COOKE Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of governme...
CHRIS CHOCOLA I support both a Fair Tax and a Flat Tax plan that would dramatically streamline the tax system. A F...
RALPH HALL They want the things Louisiana already has. What they don't want is income taxes and sales taxes as ...
ELLIOTT STONECIPHER For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes ...
MARY LANDRIEU Unlike income, or even sales taxes, property taxes are not accurate indicators of your cash at hand.
BILL AHERN We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less...
CARL PALADINO We need to cut taxes instead of increasing taxes and put the state government on a diet,
WILLIAM SCRANTON History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20% of the people's income, there begin...
RONALD REAGAN Canadians should be aware that, to meet their fiscal plan, the Conservatives will have to increase p...
DALE ORR People are feeling it more. A greater share of their income is going to pay taxes.
GEORGE PALUMBO We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxe...
JOE SCARBOROUGH Fixed-income returns, after taxes and inflation, tend to be very low, ... If you're under 45, I'm no...
MATTHEW PETERSON The impact of the ending and signing of annual teacher contracts are accounted differently now as th...
LARRY PARKER People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes. The problem is tha...
MIAN MUHAMMAD MANSHA Right now, the state [government in Trenton] has done more than the federal government on chemical-p...
CHARLES WALSTON The government is trying to collect overdue taxes from oil companies to recover some lost taxes. And...
ANTOINE HALFF If taxes and government spending are both slashed, then the salutary result will be to lower the par...
MURRAY ROTHBARD If the government imposes an increase in the pension age my view is that industrial action is absolu...
MARK SERWOTKA They were charged with unlawfully engaging in bookmaking, unlawfully recording and registering bets,...
ROBYN COCHRANE Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it&...
GAIL COLLINS We have an immoral government operating illegally. I feel morally compelled to act.
DAN DEWALT People may qualify for the mortgage and interest, but the taxes and insurance turn into an obstacle....
ANITA JENKINS If the federal government shifts large Medicaid costs to the states, some states are likely to turn ...
ANDY SCHNEIDER All taxes, except a 'lump-sum tax,' introduce distortions in the economy. But no government ...
ROBERT J. SHILLER A substantial number of future residents relocating into Maricopa will have experiences with paying ...
CARROLL BURACKER Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes co...
YEHUDI MENUHIN Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes co...
YEHUDI MENUHIN It's certainly an income generator for the government.
DAVID SANDS Just admit it, Tim, you raised taxes, ... He broke ties in the Senate, folks. That was his only duty...
JERRY KILGORE If Exxon explores more, there are taxes and money for the government,
JUSUF KALLA I'm not a flight risk. I would much rather use the time to prepare an appeal,
IRWIN SCHIFF There's no reason to put me in jail.
IRWIN SCHIFF I had nothing to do with this.
IRWIN SCHIFF We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income ...
JOE SCARBOROUGH more than the federal government will spend on education this year, twice as much as the federal gov...
BOB GRAHAM ...Federal aid promotes the idea that federal school money is 'free' money, and thus gives the peopl...
BARRY GOLDWATER There's blame to go around but in the end, the federal government is our last defense and it's the f...
ELEANOR CLIFT Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and ...
STEVE ALLEN Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist...
MARTIN CRUZ SMITH The tax breaks are significant. The government is subsidizing your mortgage and property taxes.
DAVID BLOCK I don't know if Minnesota has anything to lament. It's never bad to have high income. But high incom...
CURTIS DUBAY I don't bow down to the federal government.
JOE ARPAIO I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, relea...
HARRY BROWNE Our hands are tied from a federal perspective and will continue to be tied until the federal governm...
DAVID PALSROK They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.
GEORGE W. BUSH It's probably one of the worst taxes government ever passed.
CAROL DOVER Many of us are on a fixed retirement income, but the city keeps throwing these taxes at the homeowne...
DON PUDER They're all different animals as far as income limits, taxes, contributions, who controls the assets...
JOE HURLEY Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.
GROVER NORQUIST Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
BILL VEECK The federal government was responsible for building the levees, engineering the levees, and conseque...
MITCH LANDRIEU President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less gover...
RALPH HALL We can no longer rely on the federal government to be our principal source of information, ... The f...
WILLIAM BRATTON Today, I heard directly from Connecticut workers about the importance of strong, predictable federal...
ELIZABETH ESTY I feel bad for Irwin and Cindy.
LAWRENCE COHEN Not only is it possible to do lean startup in federal government, but it's the most effective wa...
TODD PARK The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upo...
ERWIN SCHRODINGER The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upo...
ERWIN SCHRöDINGER More freedom means more jobs... less government and less taxes.
TODD AKIN He has paid in full the taxes and civil penalties. He is whole with the government.
LAWRENCE HORN I stand side by side with Ronald Reagan on less taxes and less government.
MARILYN BREWER It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the gr...
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IRWIN ROSE Enzymologists usually study the initial rates of reactions measuring product formation as a function...
IRWIN ROSE Looking back on my 50-year eclectic journey in research, I am grateful that it has gone as well as i...
IRWIN ROSE Initially, I thought problems on how the brain works to be the most interesting. But it was necessar...
IRWIN ROSE My Ph.D. thesis problem was to determine if the DNA content of rat tissues increased if there was B1...
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