Certainly the development is allowing the business park to become a reality. Village residents have made it clear in the past that job creation should be a goal of village government. So we feel this is an opportunity to pursue that and at the same time improve the value of the village of Biron, which will allow for lower taxes in the future.

Jon Evenson

We really pride ourselves that people usually go away feeling a lot better going away than when they came in; even if they owe taxes, they still go away feeling better. The fear of the unknown is worse than knowing - even if you owe money - and it's just too bad that people have to be stressed out about taxes.

Judy Yoder

Between the general fund property tax cut and the cut to the energy taxes, people are going to be paying less.

Steve Levy

It's because of our tax structure, mostly. Motorists in New York State are paying some of the highest taxes in the country on fuels.

Wally Smith

They can't change the AMT tax consequences of that $55 that they made in virtual income when they exercised and they will pay taxes on that extra money if they still hold those shares on Dec. 31st of this year.

Claudia Hill

A whole vast majority of the residential population -- the renters -- who will be affected by the property taxes, has not been addressed in any of the relief.

Mike Abe

Lower tax rates would allow our businesses to grow at a much faster rate. It allows us to hire more people, to pay a higher wage, to invest more and to increase the pace, of course, at which our businesses can grow if we're not hampered by higher taxes.

Michael Crow

We would like to see local taxes be more balanced and not overly rely on the sales tax. On the other hand, both statewide and presumably locally, we're not only interested in fairness, but we're also interested in adequate revenue for the state and presumably the local government, too.

Dick Williams

Obviously, there's an old debt here to be repaid, we understand that. However, I am certain the people who live in Cook County, who pay taxes here, who depend on services here, are going to make up their own minds.

Marj Halperin

People got to get going. We're concerned that people are not getting their taxes in.

Meredith Helgerson

In order to make it feasible, you have to put some kind of income element. We just did the budget and in this day and age, you have to try and find a way of sustaining something without always it being taxes.

Mayor Marlin Townes

America's economy is best served by reasonable increases in the minimum wage, so that we don't hurt small businesses from growing and creating future employment opportunities. Nationwide, voters will continue to reject Democrat support for higher taxes and lawsuits that impair our nation's economic progress.

Danny Diaz

This provision would open up the legal system to abuse by people who may not pay taxes and would drive up farmers' costs of defending themselves. We're obviously against that.

Austin Perez

Only little people pay taxes.

Leona Helmsley

Smokers are made better-off by taxes, as they provide a valuable self-control device, ... Do Cigarette Taxes Make Smokers Happier?

Jonathan Gruber

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

I want to be active in the community. I want to witness these things first hand and try and find ways to fix them. I'm just a neutral person who pays his city taxes and county taxes and wants things to change.

Scott Otto

It's mandated by the state ? we had to use a lot of our surplus and it affected keeping our taxes down. It's not bad when you think that last year taxes went down six (cents).

Michael Payton

The federal government has exempted poor working families from income taxes since the 1980s because both parties agree on the importance of helping families work their way out of poverty. Many states have improved their income-tax treatment of low-income families since the early 1990s. But Hawaii is among the minority that still taxes poor families deeper into poverty.

Jason Levitis

They might receive a refund even if they didn't pay a lot of taxes.

Jackie Keller

They'd say, 'I like what you're doing about property taxes, but let's do something about gas,' .

David Mcintosh

I'm willing to talk about taxes if you're willing to talk about entitlements.

Stuart Butler

That's what we're looking for, hopefully less taxes and less government.

Bill Bunting

I don't think a lot of people know that. When I tell my friends they can't believe it. My taxes are 2 inches thick. I have to file in all these different states.

Brian Meadows

We revised the budget based upon September and October taxes that had been collected. When I am looking at this December report, we are another $1.5 million over the revised budget for September and October figures.

Jules Gaudin

Freddy funds his plan through a nearly $1 billion property tax hike. Coupled with his stock-transfer tax to fix the schools, it seems there is no problem that higher taxes can't solve.

Stu Loeser

The citizens are getting the best use of the dollars they are paying in taxes.

Jack Ward

The vast majority of Americans pay their taxes even though a small, tiny fraction of them will ever get audited. That's because the punishment for not paying your taxes is jail.

John Keeley

If they're not going to enforce them, don't raise taxes.

Joe Mcgonigle

He believes it is incumbent upon elected officials to do all they can to bring in new revenues without hiking taxes. The controller believes that we can bring more money into government by rooting out waste, implementing procurement reform, cracking down on tax cheats, and hiring more auditors.

Nick Velasquez

I think everybody is worried about overcrowding and the taxes on their homes. It all comes down to the peacefulness of this town. We need to go back to as peaceful as this town was before all of this divisiveness.

Jorge Rochac

The tax breaks are significant. The government is subsidizing your mortgage and property taxes.

David Block

Their kids ultimately take the place of someone who does pay taxes. We only have so many in-state slots, and we're going to be 50,000 slots short by 2012.

Sen. Richard Saslaw

I don't support treating them as commercial. The taxes on the large homes enable the funding of schools and employees.

Chris Hardee

I used to advise 13s for two reasons: where consumers are behind on their house payments or they need more time to pay student loans, taxes, child support or alimony. Now 13s will be for credit cards and unsecured debt.

Mike Hacker

There's just not enough of us. There's just not a whole lot of revenue to be made off of taxes, in my view.

Bill Spencer

The federal Liberals seem content to let gas prices rise as the government rakes in higher and higher taxes from the price increases.

John Duncan

We just put an awful lot of taxes on a gallon of gas in New York.

Wally Smith

Tax increases for the school district will have to be put into place. But doing so will make taxpayers reluctant to increase funding through property taxes for general county services.

Paul Tischler

If we don't do something this session, we don't have a program set up to deal with this long-term. And the counties are then going to be kind of just sitting there, saying, 'Boy, if this stuff starts ending up in the ditches, what do we do? Who's going to pay for that? So it ends up on property taxes.

Rep. Dennis Ozment

These small businesses are only asking that they don't have to pay taxes when they don't make any money.

Tom Underwood

Up to a quarter of an investor's return can be surrendered to Uncle Sam, and in a low-return environment like we experienced last year that can be meaningful. I'm patriotic, but you should not pay too much in taxes if you don't have to.

Duncan Richardson

We had moved into the house on a rental agreement and exercised the right to buy the property. I can't tell you the exact date we bought the property, but I was unaware that exemptions were not given the first year of ownership and we got behind on the taxes. Once I got behind, the taxes kept building up. I wasn't fully aware that they (the county) didn't give you any exemption.

Alan Gell

What have President Bush and Congressional Republicans proposed to do about these problems? The elimination of taxes on corporate dividends. Yes, that's their response.

Robert Matsui

You want to make sure that when you do finally sit down to do your taxes, you aren't missing something crucial.

Kay Bell

It means higher property taxes, period. . . . Whether funding is flat or slightly reduced, it's the community that has to make up for the difference.

Frank Belluscio

Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems.

Carl Levin

I don't know whether we're going to pull it all from sales taxes, impact fees or a combination.

Jason Harper

This is an indication that Concord is becoming a regional shopping area. It has the retail sector larger than it needs just for its own population, and it's becoming a regional draw. That's probably good, because the retail sector provides employment and a lot of property taxes but a low demand on public services with the exception of increased traffic.

Stuart Arnett

The taxes are incredible. We're trying to be smart about it.

Greg Gould

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

Andrew Mellon

These opportunities are much broader than our traditional consumer and professional tax businesses in the U.S. and Canada. Taxes also impact our payroll business as well as the tax forms part of our supplies business.

Steve Bennett

I haven't filed my taxes, they're right here. You're the IRS, you should know if I filed my taxes.

Monique King

We haven't seen the needs yet. Real-estate taxes are just one piece of the puzzle. There are too many outside issues. For us to come up with a percent at this point would be premature.

Jack Cavalier

This is one tax that voters like. Raising cigarette taxes is a win-win-win solution for state legislators and governors as they face challenges in the next few months. The evidence that voters support cigarette tax increases is clear and overwhelming. Last November, 65 percent of Washington state residents voted approval of a 60-cent increase in their tobacco tax.

Bill Corr

Anyone can talk about cutting waste and taxes. Rep. Coble is of the rare breed who 'walks the walk' by voting to ease the burden of a cumbersome, bloated federal government.

Tom Schatz

The tax base will shift more to where they have their residences, instead of where they work. That's where they will pay their property taxes, buy their groceries, buy their cars.

Loren Scott

Basically because of the hurricane we lost everything. We had no insurance. The tax base is totally gone. There are no businesses to pay taxes to fund things like Little League. This saved us.

Herb Sires

Do we need to raise taxes at this stage? I don't know. Do we need to do something to make sure they (city employees) have a livable wage? Absolutely.

Dave Watson

We want to work legally, so we can pay our taxes and support the country, our country.

Francisco Flores

We don't like taxes. We're looking to give money to people and not take it out of their pockets.

John Mcardle

Taxes don't seem to be the third rail they used to be.

Harry Wilson

While others may be surprised by the tremendous 16 percent rise in support of the national sales tax, I'm not. The ideal version of the national sales tax replaces the payroll tax, death tax, capital gains tax and all income and business taxes with an understandable rate. The more people know about the national sales tax, the more they like it.

Sharon Miller

All they're going to do is add it on to our property taxes, and it's right back to us.

Dave Sorenson

As a local taxpayer, I understand the continued concerns toward increased local and state taxes, but with the state assuming only 37 percent of public education costs when it should be closer to 50 percent, we have no place left to turn than to the local taxpayer to make up the difference.

Larry Sullivan

Hopefully I will be able to maintain or at least level their taxes and look at a way that we can reduce taxes, My goal is to prevent future tax increases we need to hold the line on taxes.

Barbara Perez

Every one of the best tax systems raises sufficient revenue without imposing at least one of the three major state taxes -- sales taxes, personal income tax and corporate income taxes.

Curtis Dubay

It's also important to know that when taxes go unpaid, the IRS can place a lien on your assets. Unpaid tax liens can remain on your credit report for up to 15 years, while paid tax liens can remain on your credit report for seven years from the date paid. Both have a negative impact on your credit score.

Maxine Sweet

These areas of the brain are fairly deep and not associated with math and taxes. They're more associated with emotions or how people feel before they're about to do something. Anticipatory emotions may have some role in decision-making and even financial decision-making.

Brian Knutson

In marriages sometimes, maybe you could call it division of labor. One person takes responsibility for doing the taxes for both. How many of you are in a relationship like that, where one person prepares the taxes for both?

Robert Mcduff

We don't have any doubt that, in one way or another, the taxes on sales to non-Indians are going to be collected by New York. The question is: How soon?

James Calvin

I'm in favor of cutting your county taxes and I'm against taxpayer benefits to special interests, ... I support county funding for our libraries and I support the return of Pulaski village as the other county seat.

David Waters

If I'm not paying enough property taxes, then someone else is paying too much. This is about taxpayer fairness.

Karl Berron

I heard that the last town that got this award, (Franklin), had everyone, three buses of people, stand up on the stage. That?s what should happen. It should be everyone that pays taxes, that loves living here. We should be there to receive it - that?s everybody. And we should also be there to acknowledge the state council on the art, it?s been 40 years in this state.

Jane James

A couple of years ago I would have thought that business investment would grow pretty strongly. That hasn't been the case due to a combination of more regulation and taxes, lower-cost countries and pensions and I don't see that changing. It's certainly hard to see business investment recovering enough to get the economy growing above trend.

Michael Saunders

Indiana is conservative. People don't want to waste money on property taxes. We are competing with these companies to come in and build and develop here but to do that you can't over-tax them.

Tom Hanify

With all the real and pressing problems facing this state, the last thing we need to do is raise taxes $2.4 billion to create a new government run bureaucracy to replace our current system of preschools.

Allan Zaremberg

Basically, all the forces that can enlarge the retired elderly population are in overdrive. The forces that would expand the younger (and working) population paying for Social Security and Medicare taxes are in reverse. The result is a kind of perfect demographic storm.

Scott Burns

The fact is, under his influence, Richmond had among the highest crime rates in the commonwealth, the schools were consistently ranked near the bottom statewide, and people paid more in taxes.

Tim Murtaugh

If the IRS never conducted audits, what do you think would happen to people paying taxes in this country? If the public knows the IRS never conducts audits, don't you think there will be an increase in problems?

Adil Shamoo

This program only applies to sales taxes collected from this site. And the money will be sent back to Russell Lands for their investment. This program does not apply to any of the businesses that may be located on this property.

Richard Langford

Our board overwhelmingly supported it, and most of the people who voted for it are the same people who are going to be paying the taxes.

Rusty Hammer

Businesses don't really pay taxes..customers pay taxes.

Dan Curtis

It's ridiculous. Part of being a citizen is paying taxes.

Patrick Mcgurn

For each dollar increase in the price of oil, the government automatically receives 49% through taxes and other items not being considered by the state when it talks about the unfairness of the contracts.

Rene Ortiz

It appears that in practice, the value-added taxes applied to electronically delivered books and newspapers may be higher than those applied to sales of the same physical books and newspapers.

Stuart Eizenstat

Both of them strongly support the airport and both of them have strongly pledged not to raise county property taxes.

Rick Bryant

You want more taxes.

Gordon Peterson

A lot of people believe that if your school closes, you don't have school taxes. If people are worried about money, they should be really worried if the school closes.

John Pinzl

There's been a 100 percent increase in taxes over the last three or four years. Insurance is up 30 to 40 percent.

Al Holmes

If Love Field is closed, we would not have our corporate headquarters in Dallas. Dallas would lose 5,000 jobs, $15 million in direct taxes, and $3 billion a year in economic impact.

Ron Ricks

People were still very concerned about wanting to keep that old building. And perhaps they were concerned about their taxes, too.

Marcia Lebeau

The company got notification from the IRS that Michael McDermott had been delinquent on his taxes and in a fairly routine procedure they asked the company to assist with garnishment of his wages, taking a percentage but obviously not all to pay off his back taxes.

Martha Coakley

What's increasing taxes is expenditures. We provide a lot of services. We spend a lot of money. There are two options - raise taxes or reduce services.

Frank Szeps

Mexico is upside down. Everything that should have gone up -- employment, salaries, competitiveness -- has gone down. And what should have gone down -- insecurity, taxes, oil prices and electricity rates -- has gone up.

Roberto Madrazo

Generally, none have record-setting rates. But they have fairly high rates for all the taxes.

Bill Ahern

This is a chance to get all the old-timers together and there is getting to be fewer of us every year. This is family ranching. It's still here, but it's getting harder because of the land prices and the taxes are too high to make a living with cattle.

Charles Yates

Our survey showed that most businesses lump taxes and fees together, and this is their fastest growing expense category ? matched only by the cost of health care.

Jim Ware

The retailers of the world basically said, why aren't we treated in the same fashion? State governments are getting sales tax. Local governments are getting sales tax. Local governments are getting meals and lodging taxes. And all of that is a derivative of our investment in their community.

Brent Frank

I'm the only candidate in this race who's pledged not to raise your taxes.

Rich Phillips

There's going to be a firestorm in this town. They're going to pay more taxes with a lot less.

Floyd Thomas

The government of Colombia and even the United States do the same thing, ... If you don't pay your taxes, you go to jail. Here we don't have jails, so we detain people.

Raul Reyes

They are saying that I am the same as a landlord. They said I should have been collecting taxes for the past six or seven years. I said, 'show me the city code that applies,' and they couldn't.

Frank Maguire

When you state it's the IRS, everybody is scared. I don't want to owe taxes.

Monique King

Property taxes have become an 800-pound gorilla on the back of North Dakota property owners and renters. Property taxes have become so out of balance that they threaten the ability of seniors to stay in their homes, and threaten the dream of home ownership for our young people and working families.

Brent Edison

It was never the intention of the state spending cap to drive up local taxes.

Herb Rosenthal

We have failed to present lower taxes in a broader economic context, preferring to make an ideological argument about the size of the state, instead of an economic argument about Britain's ability to compete in the world.

David James

People feel their taxes are high enough.

Superintendent Marvin Warner

I think investors have become more serious about the impact of taxes because they were saddled with tax bills in 2000 -- but many funds performed poorly as the market crashed.

Bill Harding

Most of the four year plan is the same old, same old. It's an attempt to raise taxes without cutting expenses. You think this is going to fly? I hope not.

Barry Weinstein

Salaries haven't kept up with inflation, and there is such anger coming out of Washington about immigrants that I think it has curtailed the ability of local folks here to hire immigrants, ... I really believe it starts from the top, and the policy continues to be one of ignoring people at the bottom, cutting taxes for those on the top and spending a lot of money for a war built on lies.

Jose Serrano

If we stay with the two-thirds bond [in June], property taxpayers would not have their taxes increase, but it would extend the length of the bond.

Linda Clark

Those governmental services being in Old Town helped give this place its lifeblood. One of the neat things about living here was being able to walk to the tax office to pay your taxes, or to city hall to pay your water bill.

Jay Macaniff

With the laws changing like they are, I'd hate to have somebody doing my taxes who hadn't had a class for the last 10 years.

Judy Yoder

Our taxes are too high. They deter foreign investors and hurt consumer confidence alike.

Juergen Thumann

We are committed to reducing the tax gap in 2006. The shortfall is blatantly unfair to those of us who pay nearly 20 percent more in state taxes per year while suffering the consequences of reduced state services.

John Chiang

As strange as it may seem, government at all levels does business with vendors who are delinquent on their taxes.

Mark Everson

I am uncomfortable voting to increase anybody's taxes.

Steve Kennedy

There is a clear view that families that are here, that are working, paying taxes and contributing to society, ought to be able to get regularized status. On the other hand, there is a view about not rewarding illegal behavior.

Mark Mellman

There's a need to do this as a means of increasing citizen participation in our budget process. Obviously, what the township spends and what we're taking in are issues that are near and dear to all of us since we all pay taxes and no one wants to pay more taxes. And we all want to find the most economic way to function in the township while providing a high level of service.

Steve Santarsiero

Fixed costs like salary, retirement, taxes, utilities, software, and general supplies are the brunt of the increases.

William Powell

Taxpayers who are already stretched to their limit by our highest-in-the-nation property taxes may be forced to pick up and leave the state. Businesses that have already rated this as one of the worst business climates in the nation will move operations elsewhere or forgo plans to expand.

Alex Decroce

I understand it is bad politics to cut spending or raise taxes. So you pray and pray that this is not dangerous, and as long as nothing happens in your term, it's okay.

Donald Tsang

What that comparison told us was that the law was improving business, ... Last year the state collected $4,869,000 (in food and beverage taxes) and this year they collected $5,824,000. When you look at those two numbers there?s clearly no drop in revenue. To the contrary, based on the information we have so far, the law is having a positive effect on businesses.

Robert Marshall

These earmarks are authorized to be spent out of dedicated revenue - with highway trust fund money from gasoline taxes. That's one reason doing earmarks is such a good idea.

Roger Wicker

Taxes matter to businesses. How a state taxes business is just as important as how much a state taxes businesses.

Scott Hodge

It keeps the city and other jurisdictions from going after a home for nonpayment of taxes. There's no deadline for filing for it. They can file anytime, right up until they wind up in the courthouse.

Jerry Griffin

We keep hearing everybody's raising taxes, but we're not.

Greg Dunn

I think consumers are looking for online solutions, not only with taxes, but for all their financial solutions.

Lance Dunn

We need to send a signal to business that we cannot continue to hit them up. At least for four years, we're going to draw a line in the sand and say: 'No new taxes.' To do otherwise would continue to erode the kind of tax base that will allow us to pay for anything.

Doug Forrester

Every year, the number of lots going up for sale on taxes would fill the Citrus County Chronicle. It wasn't that long ago you could buy those lots at a tax sale for $500. Now I understand most are going for $15,000 to $20,000.

Larry Haag

We have had it with property taxes. You need to cut and cut and cut.

Robert Jones

It's a red herring. All state and local taxes combined as a cost of doing business for the average company in America comes to only 0.8 percent.

Greg Leroy

If the city goes in to do the cleaning, the charge for the cleaning will be added to their property taxes.

Danny Saenz

Both candidates have made big promises to cut taxes. But neither has said where the money is coming from or how they'll cut the debt.

James Walston

We're looking for a moratorium on state and local taxes to allow time so the government and the private sector can make recommendations regarding a future Internet tax policy.

Bruce Hahn

The government is trying to collect overdue taxes from oil companies to recover some lost taxes. And there is still some confusion about the government being in crisis.

Antoine Halff

I'll approach both taxes and spending from the angle of how low a burden can we impose.

Chris Stevens

We don't want to raise taxes, but in the scope of things . . . now's the time, ... This facility (the current structure) doesn't suffice for 2,200 kids. We need something more in line with what our needs are.

Robert Copeland

The voters deserve an opportunity to hear our differences on the critical issues facing our state, especially the issues of economic development, education, health care, and lowering taxes.

Oscar Lovelace

We were a business, I couldn't raise taxes. I had to look at where the fat was.

Dian Powell

What's happening now with the low connection fees is you're using citizens taxes to subsidize new building and I don't think that's a fair thing to be doing.

Dorn Peterson

It is good to make decisions about taxes prior to selling because you can't undo it.

Bruce Norris

Doing taxes by hand manually is like churning your own butter.

Julie Miller

If you are making a lot of money from short-term trading, taxes are just the price you pay for being successful.

Robert Mason

I coincide with much of his beliefs -- low taxes, low regulation and a support for a free enterprise.

John Raese

There's enough revenue in the country, there's enough taxes -- but there's not enough sharing of them. Municipal governments need somewhat more to deliver their responsibilities.

James Knight

Over what the county was providing, there was a dramatic increase in the quality of services, with the next jurisdiction in the county more than double our property taxes.

John Flint

It just makes sense that the IRS wouldn't pick on people who are really trying to pay their taxes, ... There are plenty of other people they need to go after.

Barbara Raasch

Young people favor cuts in benefits. Older people want increases in taxes. It's inherently divisive.

Barry Bosworth

I have no intention of paying taxes because my partner are considered second-class citizens due to laws that prevent us from being married because we are two men. Hello, we don't have the same tax law rights as heterosexual married couples filing income tax. Very unfair.

Charles Merrill

We recommend strongly the council consider these options. All of the taxes are not welcomed by residents and they may not be happy with it, but if you cannot reconstruct the cost structure, you have to look at these options.

Harry Miller

It means we're doing a lot of things right and that, in some respects, we're fortunate and taking advantage of our good fortune. We are avoiding some mistakes. Even though our taxes are high, we haven't let them go out of control as have some others.

David G. Tuerck

Dealers were motivated to stock more cars before the new taxes took effect, which fueled the sales increase.

Rao Da

There are a lot of corporations that aren't paying their share at all. We need a more comprehensive mix of taxes.

Maria Alvarado

The governor has saddled the state with a billion dollars in new hidden taxes just to protect his relationship with a special interest group. Minnesotans deserve better.

Brian Melendez

Why should they be allowed to deface the beautiful countryside and not pay some dollar amount in taxes on them?

Anita Davis

If we publish it maybe they will see it or somebody they know will see their name in it and take care of the taxes.

Janet Taylor

If both people make $300,000, they'll pay more than $18,000 in taxes by filing jointly. That's about the cost of the wedding.

John Battaglia

But at the time of death, estate taxes are likely to kick in.

Lisa Padilla

If it does not, governments will view the industry as an easy target for taxes to fund non-aviation projects.

Rod Eddington

Frank O'Reilly ran for the School Board as a Republican and saying that he would increase taxes to improve the schools, and he was elected.

Allen Sale

It raised a major concern for us. We don't think federal judges should determine the applicability of state sales and hotel and motel taxes.

Mike Gowrylow

The government is unable to collect taxes and control the borrowing requirement and is making only limited progress in the rest of the economy and on privatization to generate revenue.

Miranda Xafa

The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

I think they realized the timing was all wrong. This is an election year and they decided to go after issues Georgians are interested in, such as immigration and taxes.

Chuck Bowen

These investors, who comprise over 60 percent of the equity market, prefer companies to convert business assets into income trusts since they can avoid paying corporate taxes at a 35 percent rate.

Jack Mintz

We're pretty confident it will be maintained or continued. Unlike other Bush tax provisions, it actually raises tax revenue under the budget rules because participants are paying taxes today.

Steve Utkus

I had asked on several occasions that the chamber conduct seminars for small businesses on insurance, taxes, what ever the case may be. But we really never saw anything like that and I haven't seen much else.

Richard Tillis

If you've paid at least 90 percent of your current tax liability by April 15 or 100 percent of the previous year's taxes, you won't have to pay the late payment [0.5 percent] fee.

Cindy Frailing

We're doing great on growth on sales taxes so far. We expected this number to fall, but it hasn't fallen yet.

Greg Albrecht

Investors express concern about taxes and the tax implications of investing but are confused by a subject hat can become complicated very quickly.

Duncan Richardson

These taxes are a nuisance to businesses.

Gyorgy Matolcsy

We don't disagree with raising taxes; we disagree with the way they (commissioners) are doing it.

Howard Rogers

People are feeling it more. A greater share of their income is going to pay taxes.

George Palumbo

The real risk is the Legislature could raise taxes.

Mike Antonovich

The valuations of property has been so far out of whack for so long that this (an increase) had to happen sometime. The problem is that taxes are such an emotionally charged issue and no one likes to pay them, but the goal is to make sure that everyone is paying their fair share, and no one is getting a better deal than anyone else.

Ivan Canevello

This is Robin Hood in reverse. These tax cap proposals favor those with the most expensive properties. We are spreading the taxes to those with some of the least expensive property.

Sen. Clementa Pinckney

When Northwest merged with Flowing Wells, they promised an economy of scale that would lead to bigger and better service. But the first thing they did was raise taxes. They are a political organization with a lot of ambition. They want to get bigger.

Mary Schuh

The issue of smoking bans and taxes have been around for a while and now the company is confirming its impact on profit.

John Grace

I think people are used to seeing taxes at the end of their receipt.

Bill Jensen

Thirty years from now, $20,000 won't even buy a Popsicle; we've got to stop spending, taxes are too high.

Walter Hight

For our district, extending the AMT provision is very important. In Bergen County in particular, people pay extraordinary property taxes and state and local taxes, and they need alternative minimum tax relief.

Michelle Presson

A taxpayer that might owe taxes, court fines and child support is now going to get just one contact into their home instead of three or four. It cuts down on any confusion.

Mike Reynolds

We have been very conscientious about keeping our property taxes down.

Liz Gilland

When one has money like this, you want to invest it the best way possible, where you can maximize the gains from it, ... If you want to get money back to people, I think cutting taxes is a good idea, especially cutting taxes that are doing the most harm to the economy, rather than just giving a blank cheque to people.

Jack Mintz

By pushing grand juries to issue politically motivated indictments of prominent Republicans, Ronnie Earle is trying to make it a crime to be conservative, to support an agenda of lower taxes and less government. That's un-American.

Mallory Factor

This will hopefully give us the opportunity to get legal status. We pay taxes and do important jobs that others don't want to do.

Ray Martinez

We have to raise money, even if that means a tax increase. If we do that, we have to make a commitment to the people to explain why we're going to raise taxes and what they are going to be used for ... at the same time, we have to look at our future because our reserves are constantly being depleted.

Larry Everett

The root of all this, the project, the partnerships, the revitalization, revolves around the issue of property taxes.

Barry Robertson

The Single Business Tax is one of the worst taxes in the nation. We applaud the legislature for their work on this bill, and we urge the governor sign it into law so that the work of drafting a replacement can begin right away.

Sarah Hubbard

As we face coming challenges like possible base closures and unfunded federal mandates that drain our budget and loss of vital services, we must assure our quality of life in Maine remains high, ... While many in Maine pay a high percentage of their income in taxes, others are not paying their fair share. That has to change.

Deborah Hutton

If taxes are owed, a delay in filing may result in penalty and interest charges that could increase your tax bill by 25 percent or more.

Bill Steiner

During this campaign the chancellor and the prime minister will stand up and say it [the government] hasn't increased taxes, and that's just not true for business.

Digby Jones

Mr. Reagan will raise taxes; and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.

Walter F. Mondale

It's a sad fact, but mutual-fund investors really get a raw deal when it comes to taxes.

Sonya Morris

There are many laws that have been important to our customers in recent years, including the increase in retirement contribution limits and the reduction in taxes on capital gains and dividends.

Vincent Loporchio

Mexico is in reverse. All things that should be up — jobs, salaries, competitiveness — are down. And all that should be down — insecurity, taxes, gas prices — has gone up.

Roberto Madrazo

Mark Warner has a history of flip-flopping on taxes. Despite a campaign promise not to raise taxes, while governor of Virginia he supported raising billions of dollars in taxes time and time again.

Cullen Sheehan

Governments are either going to have to cut spending by that much or they are going to have to increase property taxes to make up the difference.

Jackie Nytes