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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Oscar Wilde

Currently, not only are Americans taxed on what they earn, but those assets are taxed again when they are passed on to a loved one.

Mary Bono

We're getting taxed to death.

Linda Baumann

We're already the most taxed industry in the state. We don't mind paying our fair share, but we don't want to pay more than that.

Morris Burns

What I believe most people who voted for the amendment didn't believe is that it would really trap them in their home and then they'd find that the differential was so great between what they're currently being taxed on and what the value of their home really is.

John Sebree

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.

John Wesley Powell

(E-casinos) should be regulated. It should be controlled and it should be taxed.

Terry Lanni

We have an ongoing challenge to get budget support for corps projects. Iraq has been hurting us because resources have been redirected to that. And now we have New Orleans. The money has to come from somewhere. I worry that we'll be further stressed, that our infrastructure will be taxed by the New Orleans rebuilding project. I have no idea what New Orleans will do to us.

Greg Ajemian

To many people, that's what the true compensation is and what the executives get taxed on. Not until the stock vests can individuals put it in their pockets, and now investors are going to be able to see what it's worth.

Mark Borges

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

Rush Limbaugh

He has opposed similar efforts in the past. I can't see him supporting a tax increase of any kind. He believes Missourians are taxed enough.

Spence Jackson

When people are told, Well, if you do all that, if you work hard and succeed, and 55 percent of what you make will be taxed away, they won't believe you. They can't believe that there's a tax system in place that actually taxes people the more successful they are.

Bill Beach

We'd love to see it regulated and taxed.

Michael Bolcerek

There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.

Cullen Hightower

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.

Art Buchwald

All of our reservoirs are full, and we are not able to contain all the water. So the river system, and the levee system, is being taxed beyond its designed capacity.

Les Harder

American newspapers write about the information economy. In contrast, Europeans speak of an 'information society.' They (the Europeans) believe business is there to be taxed, and to support the election of politicians.

Ian Angell

The ex-players tend to convert lean mass into adipose fat, and the heart is really being taxed.

Dr. Kevin Guskiewicz

We have the knowledge and materials to protect our water, power and sewage treatment facilities, ... It's not going to be cheap, but it would produce enormous numbers of jobs. But it will only happen if the American public conveys that we want to be taxed for this priority.

James Jordan

This way, the relief really goes to those people who may have been taxed out of their homes as a result.

Lowell Kalapa

There are many metrics involved in choosing a place for a hub. The first involves availability. Many airports are over-taxed like Los Angeles. Other cities are, on the other hand, begging for cargo business.

Brandon Fried

Remittances are hard-earned income that, in most cases, has already been taxed.

Francois Bourguignon

Taxation without representation? No, they're getting taxed, and they're getting represented.

Tim Pape

In too many states, the poor and near-poor who are working to join the middle class are instead being taxed right back into poverty. For a family in poverty, a few hundred dollars is a lot of money.

Nicholas Johnson

We need to look at reality. These companies are not going to move in here if they are taxed at full value.

Fred Shaw

Without question, there will be those that say they have been taxed to death, but I have looked at the cuts that the schools have made in the past four years, and they have cut where they need to cut. But the failure of this levy will only weaken the school system.

Jim Walters

Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country?

Carter Glass

An easing of the burden for highly taxed companies is unavoidable if we want to keep Germany competitive. That's the only way to create more scope for corporate investments.

Juergen Thumann

Alabama now has become the only state with an income tax threshold below one-half of the poverty line. Every other state that taxed the incomes of the poor in the early 1990s has reduced or eliminated this tax burden. Alabama stands alone in its failure to act.

Nicholas Johnson

It's diabolical. Every dollar you make above the threshold isn't taxed as $1; it's taxed as $1.50 or $1.85.

Lonell Spencer

It's a critical issue for the state. If we start taxing views, and that view doesn't belong to the people being taxed for it, it will change the landscape of our state and erode our No. 1 industry, tourism.

Tom Thomson

If you die and leave property to your partner, you're taxed on it as if you left it to a stranger. You can give your partner only $11,000 as a gift, but if you're married, you can give your wife unlimited gifts.

Charles Merrill

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We will only agree to other tax increases in the talks if people with higher incomes are taxed more heavily.

Franz Muentefering

One of the difficulties is when the veterans are given a tax break, the rest of the citizens are going to be taxed more heavily.

Jerry Donnellan

Space development and settlement will not happen if it's internationally taxed and controlled, ... I think space settlement is a social 'release valve' that we desperately need. ... It's only going to get more crowded here on Earth.

Dewayne White

We don't tax British diplomats in Washington, and we don't expect our diplomats to be taxed here either. We had negotiations for over a year on this issue and couldn't come to an agreement.

Derrick Roberts

Texans should not be taxed on our taxes.

Kay Hutchison

Millionaire and a nurse would be taxed the same. It is unfair.

Paul Kirchhof

If the Justice Department's case fails, all payments -- not just plastic payments -- but recurring payments, utilities, everything, will be taxed by a cartel known by two names: Visa and MasterCard.

Lloyd Constantine