I think its just a case of all of the lifestyle amenities that continue to be built in that area, the very positive perception of the Peters School district and the significantly lower taxes in Washington County versus Allegheny County.

Jeff Burd

We end up sucking resources so the other communities are subsidizing our coverage. To some extent we lack that because we want cheap taxes.

Greg Mclean

All across the country, cigarette taxes have gone up, and I think that's led to a reduction in smoking. It's a little unclear whether that's caused people to trade down from premium cigarettes or just smoke less.

Patrick Carroll

"I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. "See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job."

Bill Murray

I think Dunkin' Donuts is going to go at over 10 times EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) before it is done.

Greg Brenneman

Some individuals aren't required by law to file (taxes).

Deb Kottel

Students will learn how taxes are deducted from their paychecks based on the number of children they have and their income. For many of the students, this will be the first encounter with the realities of paycheck deductions such as FICA and Medicare.

Peggy Stroud

Everything that relates to cash matters now. It would have been helpful to have the payroll taxes deferred, but this will go part of the way.

John Heimlich

The convention center itself is not going to be a cure-all for this city, ... But you're already seeing more retail stores coming into the city, bringing new sales taxes, and new homes being built and bringing in more tax revenues. This is all going to make a difference.

Ron Oden

Overall, I thought the report was positive. I did think there were some misconceptions. Hispanics do pay taxes. If they are paying rent, they are paying property taxes indirectly.

Danny Dotson

I think the people of Alabama now realize that they would rather have Don's lottery than Bob and Lucy's taxes.

Don Siegelman

Even though there is an element of fairness in that proposal, we wouldn't recommend it. It sets a dangerous precedent. We'd just prefer that other states stop imposing their taxes on Washington athletes.

Bill Ahern

We cannot sustain this degree of guns, this amount of butter and this level of taxes.

Richard Haass

New Yorkers get until midnight April 18 to file their taxes this year.

Kevin Mckeon

Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.

Charley Reese

He didn't raise my taxes, he promised me he wouldn't. He's given money to education, more money to health care, more money to the veterans.

Doug Aurand

The governor has talked about how not all taxes are created equal. If there was to be any kind of tax increase, there would have to be a corresponding tax decrease.

Chris Drummond

As I've often said, Wisconsin's greatest strength continues to be the dedicated, hardworking people of our state. They go to work everyday, pay their taxes, and raise their kids with good, Midwestern values.

Democratic Govjim Doyle

Life insurance is an important method of estate transfer to at least consider because death benefits can pass to your heirs essentially free of taxes.

Mike Janko

This is probably not going to meet muster. That seems so preferential that it doesn't seem to me that it would stand up. How can you single them out to exempt them from taxes and not every other theme park?

Dexter Douglass

I enjoy the fact that the prices of homes have gone through the roof, but property taxes have gone with them. I don't have a problem with paying taxes, I really don't, but it's just gotten to the point where you're locked in your home.

Matt Long

It's not going to cut their taxes in half, but maybe they could get a $50 credit.

Michael Orchin

In the next 5-10 years, property owners will increasingly adopt cost segregation to minimize federal income taxes.

Patrick O'connor

It's not because we don't have enough capacity or we don't have enough international flights. It's because of the barrier created by taxes, customs duties and complicated clearance procedures.

Liu Zhiqiang

Governor Perry has repeatedly stated that he thinks an increase in cigarette taxes will promote healthier behaviors in Texans.

Rachael Novier

Hotel owners see foreign investors as offering unfair competition if they don't pay any tax. We tell buyers what taxes they should pay, but you can safely bet that many developers forget to mention the tax due on rents. Instead, they are telling British holidaymakers how easy it will be to let their property to help pay the mortgage, which otherwise they might not be able to afford.

Barbara Wood

It should never be to the point where you have to struggle to pay your taxes.

David Diplock

Cigarette taxes are an unstable source of revenue.

Bill Phelps

In home rule counties, the commissioners can enact taxes without putting it before the voters.

Bill Waddle

We're still in the infancy stage. We haven't done any marketing. I think once the sun shines, once people pay their taxes, then we will be able to get a reading of where exactly we are.

Ben Vanzutphen

For probably the first time in American history, civilians are asked to make no sacrifices in a time of war. We don't have a draft. There is no gas rationing the way there was in World War II. There is no increase in taxes; we get tax cuts instead. These acts are small ways of showing some recognition, because we're not doing it any other way.

Charles Moskos

It's a double blow to fans in publicly owned cities. You're not only taking away baseball but you're making them pay taxes for stadiums sitting empty.

Bruce Johnson

We can push Montana forward and we can do it with out raising taxes.

Brian Schweitzer

I can learn the person's social security number, occupation, the names and ages of the person's spouse and children, names of the person's names, the value of the person's home and property taxes paid on that home.

Robert Pitofsky

We had to take out an $800,000 tax anticipation loan last year when the taxes were not paid on time and we may have to do something like that again.

Mayor Nat Baker

It's a message to the Republican Party. We're not happy with our local politicians. We're not happy with Republicans that are out to have bigger government and increase our taxes. We're hoping that Mitch can talk to these guys tonight.

Tom Britt

In a recession, people will conclude it's better not to pay the IRS. But you should go out of business before you get behind in payroll taxes. The IRS is extremely aggressive. It will go after your home, your car, your pension - everything.

Paul Hense

Shoppers would prefer not to pay taxes and it might affect some purchases, ... The number one reason people shop online is convenience and the ability to comparison shop easily. An added 5 percent sales tax on the bottom line doesn't dramatically alter the convenience aspect of buying online.

Carrie Johnson

We represent the taxpayer and they don't want the school to change. Yet everything is increasing, including education. Well, taxes also need to be increased ... I think you need to form a referendum committee right away to begin gauging feelings about this.

Gene Duffy

Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy, the gap between rich and poor. What do these issues have in common? Politicians, the media, and our so-called "leaders" lie to us about them. They lie about the cause. They lie about the effect. They lie about the solutions.

Larry Elder

We had a lot of initial work that had to be done and these people need to be paid. We pay fees and taxes to the city. We hope your insurance will pay for the damage. If not, we feel the city is responsible for the difference.

Carol Rousseau

Alternative minimum tax is a misnomer. It isn't an alternative, because you don't have a choice. And it isn't the minimum, because you end up paying higher taxes than you would have otherwise.

Claudia Hill

They have two extra days for federal taxes because the 15th falls on a Saturday.

Gloria Wajciechowski

We know we have to contribute about $400,000 of property taxes in 2007 and 2008 into pensions and $475,000 into the pension this year. Pension obligation is first; it's not an option.

Jan Mills

For folks who are in the 15% or 25% tax bracket, it may not be a bad idea to pay those taxes now and never have to worry about what tax brackets might become in the future.

Michael Kitces

Changing the rules and dramatically increasing taxes on prior investments and future investments sends a chilling message to any company considering investments in Alaska.

Daren Beaudo

State and local taxes can add as much as 20 percent onto your basic rate.

David Heim

I certainly prefer using the lottery proceeds to increasing property taxes, which I don't favor.

Bill Halter

With everything else going up, light gas and water rates are up, groceries are up, property taxes are up. We're in no position to give anything up.

Tommy Turner

Taxes must, in the end, fall upon the consumer.

Frederic Bastiat

That money comes out with no taxes at all. That's truly amazing.

Richard Applegate

I think it's not fair to impose additional taxes on just one industry.

David Boswell

I'm just an old safety guy, but I haven't met a Hispanic terrorist yet. If a guy's got a job and he's contributing by paying taxes, buying groceries and buying cars, I'd hate to see him kept from working. I'd like to see the employed, productive workers not have to hide and worry about that.

Mike Flowers

This is the Energizer bunny that never runs out of power. The bottom line is that rewriting the constitution is about raising taxes, unlimited home rule and tampering with property rights and zoning issues.

John Giles

It's like losing weight. It's about behavior. In weight loss, it's eating less and exercising. In investing, it's taking advantage of opportunities to invest dollars that are saved from taxes.

Jan Holman

While others may cloud their judgment by emotional zeal to cut taxes, it is my hope that we focus on our primary and most important responsibility and do the right thing ? to provide the very best education for our students, and thus, ensure a prosperous future for our community.

David Lawson

There has to be a way to have Medicaid relief without taxes being involved. I would love to see the General Assembly look at their budget the same way we look at ours, and live within their means.

Gloria Whisenhunt

I would turn down the buyout offer. The main thing for me is they have excellent health-care benefits. When you look at it, $140,000 isn't really all that much after taxes. We're in a high-income bracket.

Charles Henderson

They want to cut taxes but they don't want to finance public education in any way. So what are they for? ... And that will come out in the elections this time.

Jim Black

I see both sides, but I still think it's kind of an invasion of the privacy but also, it does encourage people to pay taxes.

Nancy Moore

I think that's a reflection of the state aid, but it's also a reflection of the growing concern over property taxes.

David Ernst

There were only 500 people here, and it doesn't seem it (represents) all the residents of the three towns. I don't think the DFM was publicized enough. People with special interests in passing the budget were here. Our property taxes are going to go up again, so I didn't like the outcome. I'm disgusted by it.

George Barrett

We keep telling them that raising taxes without serious reforms will not solve the public debt problem. The government must first cut waste in public departments and combat corruption.

Adnan Kassar

Wants to cut taxes and spend the surplus.

Phil Dow

In all fairness, it may be down a little right now. I still feel it is a big number regardless. With all the activity with the Strip properties and all their different venues, these taxes are being collected.

Darren Libonati

You get penalized if you don't have high taxes.

Gary Shields

I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes. I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em.

Will Rogers

We will lead a composite team of the government agencies and we will start raiding the stores. We will make sure that it's going to be painful. If those smugglers are raided and we find out that they did not pay taxes and duties they may be able to corrupt us but I guarantee you the fees would be so high that it's not going to be worth their while to continue to smuggle.

Donald G. Dee

All he did was hide his money, and now he has even paid all his taxes.

Pablo Rodriguez

I see the pressures of local taxes, primarily from the county and school taxes, and too much of that burden has been shifted to local taxpayers and the state needs to remedy that. Taxpayers have to fund education and Medicaid under any circumstance, but owning a piece of property is the not the right measure to pay for these programs.

Tim Gordon

This has reduced the number of estates required to pay tax and the amount of taxes owed. But, despite these changes, appreciating land values and increasing farm size mean a larger share of farm estates are subject to the federal estate tax.

Jack King

It is time for taxes to be more aggressively cut in order for the tax burden as a percentage of gross domestic product to decline to below 25 percent in line with the Gear [Growth, Employment and Redistribution] strategy.

John Loos

If we find an error or omission that gets you a refund, then you pay our fee. No refund, no fee. This is especially good for those who do their own taxes, even those who use a software program. If you don't know to check the box, it won't offer you the deduction.

Barbara Agerton

We believe that a $1,000 tax reduction equals about $10,000 more on the overall value of your home, ... If you were in the buyer's market and you were considering two similar homes on the same block, and one has taxes of $10,000 and the other $9,000, wouldn't you pay $5,000 or even $10,000 more for that home? Most people would, since they usually plan to stay there for at least 10 years.

Mark Lewis

The Christian Coalition of Alabama will work to ensure that reckless trial lawyers and activist judges will not be able to open the floodgates to increase taxes and that private, Christian, parochial and home-school families will be protected.

John Giles

I certainly empathize with people. I'm sure that they're going to pay more taxes than they had anticipated, ... This is not happening just here in Citrus County. This is happening all over America. When you have a building boom like this, that's the outcome.

Vicki Phillips

I want the tax payers to look at taxes the way a banker looks at the prime rate. With a flat tax, Congress would have to send their grade cards annually to the taxpayers.

Charles Weasel

The finance minister is assuming an optimistic outlook for tax revenues, especially corporate taxes. He expects corporate tax collection to increase a hefty 28.4 percent, despite indications that industrial activity is rolling over. Perhaps he is betting on improving compliance.

Siddharth Mathur

If someone is going to have an activity, they should get money from the University in some other way instead of using hall taxes, ... We have hall presidents who say they need 80 bucks, then they need 90 bucks, and pretty soon our hall tax is gone and we can't provide for our students.

Jerome Meyer

There are school budgets that are being voted down around New Jersey even though they're efficient budgets, they're good budgets, because people can't see straight regarding property taxes. It has become such a burden that the way education funding has played its way out in the state as a result of the various Abbott decisions that we've got a real crisis on our hands.

Doug Forrester

It's really ridiculous to charge your taxes just to gain frequent flier miles or any kind of other perks given to you by your credit card company.

Jim Tehan

In this election, many Canadians are asking, 'What are you going to do about my high taxes, how are your proposals going to improve my job prospects, what fresh ideas do you offer to keep my country together?'

Preston Manning

The current tax structure is fairly perverse. Companies are in a lose-lose situation. They're criticized if they leave earnings abroad, and they're penalized [through taxes] if they bring them to the U.S.

Harris Miller

Now we can talk about cutting taxes or reforming the tax code.

Alex Johnson

I do what the people want, try to get them what the want and I'm their link to city government, ... I think they want to improve some of the neighborhoods. I think they want lower taxes. I think they want an upstanding government.

David Waters

Even if we don't raise the taxes, so much more money is going to come in. That's the only thing the town needs to come out of the 18th century.

Bill Withers

We need to cut taxes instead of increasing taxes and put the state government on a diet.

William Scranton

When we examined budget issues last year, we realized if we kept going the way we were going, we would have to increase taxes 28 percent over four years and we had to look at ways to compromise.

Robert Morgan

The rivalry goes all the way to the bone-Cal kids were born to breathe, pay taxes and beat Stanford. This is a huge rallying cry for our team to get together and mold ourselves for the championship season.

Chris Huffins

In the short run, you have to have higher taxes to pay for it. Or in the long run, you run up a larger debt and at some point, the debt becomes large enough that it requires tax increases to pay off the debt. No matter how you look at the trend lines, you can't grow your way out of it.

Michael Franc

They say that the wages of sin is death. But after taxes its just a tired feeling really.

Paula Poundstone

Because of that, I think property taxes address the sharing of this cost better than a rate increase does.

Keith Cox

When we're talking about market instruments, then we are much more favorably inclined to emissions trading than we are to taxes and charges.

David Henderson

Funds have been reporting big losses, so most investors won't have to worry about paying taxes on capital gains.

Sheldon Jacobs

All those people buy pizza, all those people get their dry cleaning done. And they pay taxes.

Fred Standish

Taxes (aren't) the only way to bring new revenue in, ... We need to see what we can do with Surf's Up.

Scott Hall

At the end of the day, Brown was quite explicit that he was not going to try and cut taxes, and the elbow room he has would be spent on education.

John Curtice

This represents by far the largest private investment in a stadium in this country. And unlike all of the other recent stadium deals, there are no public dollars being spent, except for the money on the infrastructure, which is being offset by the taxes on the construction.

Pat Hanlon

After nine legislative sessions full of name-calling, our school funding is in crisis, property taxes are up and judges are having to do our governor's job. We all know that unless we set politics aside we'll never fix what's broke.

Carole Keeton Strayhorn

What strikes me as the most burdensome of this requirement of mandatory pregnancy is that it imposes on a woman that she use her body in a certain way. We're all required to pay taxes, etc., but we're not required to do with our body things we don't want to do. ... It is a striking anomaly in the law.

Robin West

They fought the wars, they paid the taxes... they have got to have good health care in their later years.

Roger Bedford

We've got to stand up and put it (a bond issue) on the ballot... I've got to pay taxes like everybody else, but it will benefit us all, not just kids, the whole community. A school tells me what the community is like.

Jeff Phillips

I will also call the companies and say, 'I really don't appreciate you sending money to people that are that arrogant about our taxes,'.

William Billings

A state employing large percentages of its offenders will enjoy higher economic growth and civilian employment, lower crime, taxes, and welfare burdens, and less social division than an otherwise identical state employing only a few of them.

Thomas Petersik

It's been a very hard thing for some of us to look at this and decide we're going to raise taxes with our last breath. The time comes when you have to give in.

Rep. Dolores Crow

The attitude in the past has been to increase taxes away above inflation and tell people to take it or leave it. We have to get back into the real world.

Coun Tilsley

People will feel they did not make a lot of money (this year), and yet they may well see some significant capital gains taxes due on their funds holdings.

Don Cassidy

This debate won't sway any undecided voters. Taxes were the main theme, but I don't think either side scored any big hits.

Maurizio Pessato

We just feel the state has to step up and start recognizing they have an obligation to towns like Acton and Sudbury and others to offset the continued reliance on local property taxes.

John Brackett

H&R Block's real strength is they have these branch offices everywhere and a lot of talented people who do taxes and that's a real strength and they need to focus on that. They demonstrated pretty clearly last year that they weren't very good at the Web side of it, so they've got to get better, but the main focus is bringing what they do well to more people.

Robert Sterling

For taxpayers, it means doing your taxes twice.

Mark Luscombe

Pennsylvanians don't like any taxes.

Thomas Connolly

I think most people... would be glad to pay the same taxes they paid when Bill Clinton was president, if only they could have the same economy they had when Bill Clinton was president.

Howard Dean

She was from a privileged background and we paid a tremendous amount of taxes over the years. I know first-hand the benefits of being married, from a tax standpoint.

Charles Merrill

Basically 'duty-free' means a shop has promised that they will not compete with shops outside the airport, i.e. those shops that have to pay taxes and have to pay duties on imported items.

Pauline Frommer

It's an extremely frustrating process appealing property taxes, ... I can identify with audit's findings.

Gordon Johnson

Because of the way this form used to work, it calculated the tax as if you had received the money over a five-year period. You would divide it into five equal parts and pay taxes on each of those parts which significantly reduced your tax bill.

Cindy Hockenberry

There are other ways to influence representatives to cut taxes.

Iris Lav

It will come down to a choice of new leadership versus old leadership, old ideas and broken promises in the areas of property taxes and education.

David Mcintosh

If I buy a bigger home my taxes will go up 100 percent. I did the research. I can't afford it.

Matt Long

It amounts to an annual tax cut. Taxes are never low enough.

Brad Young

The avoidance of taxes is the only pursuit that carries any reward.

John Maynard Keynes

We have cut taxes 15 times the last six years, an aggregate of a billion dollars.

Bill Weld

He has paid all the applicable taxes, including U.S. capital gains taxes, ... There is a treaty. So while Jon Corzine is paying taxes here, Japanese investors who are investing in the U.S. are paying their taxes in Japan. And apparently the leadership in both countries felt there was a significant public policy reason to have that regime.

Tom Shea

Given all the fines, taxes and steps involved in getting a temporary worker visa, there is no way anyone can call this an amnesty bill.

Cody Wertz

If we don't support that tourist industry, our property taxes are going to go through the roof.

Paul Wolff

With a Roth IRA, no taxes are due when money is withdrawn. A kid who started saving at age 15 (with a Roth IRA) could grow a $1 million tax-free income.

Nancy Granovsky

The government needs to give everybody a rebate of the gas tax. When the oil company decides to gouge the public, the government doesn't stop them because they end up getting an increase in taxes.

Dug Rotstein

The enormity of the storm's effect is something that is unprecedented. If you look at towns where basically all the infrastructure was wiped out, then you have to evaluate those based on who's coming back to pay taxes and rebuild.

Kevin Giddis

We look forward very much to seeing the two liberals in the race debate between themselves over who will raise taxes the most and the fastest.

Tim Murtaugh

A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.

Lane Evans

[Whitman won four years ago with a promise to cut state income taxes by 30 percent, and did it. Clinton said that sounded good but left a hangover of debt and local taxes, leading to a competitive race] we shouldn't even be having up there because the economy's good with an incumbent governor. ... Even if we come close and do not win, it'll be a great victory for this party.

Roy Romer

Income and sales taxes are both collected in dribs and drabs.

Bill Ahern

Next year, I think the average equity fund will lose 1.5 (percentage points) of its return to taxes. If you don't like investing in funds that have an above-average expense ratio, I'm not sure why you'd want a fund with an above-average tax burden, at least not for an account where taxes are going to matter.

Tom Roseen

Lower-income people want to get their taxes done early, because they are the most likely to have a tax refund coming. Employers love the program. I have never had a company say that they're not interested in this.

John Hoffmire

During that time, Oregon's personal income went up 45.2 percent, so taxes as a share of income has actually declined.

Paul Warner

The debt build-up isn't a problem for now but it will be when employment and wage growth eventually slows and the government is not cutting taxes and boosting spending.

Rossa White

Two common reasons are people have a death or a marriage dissolution and they put taxes on the back burner.

Bill Brunson

Nobody in this community wants to look to raise taxes to solve our problems.

Vince Green

The people of New Jersey do have a history of supporting public education. So despite the problems with state budgets and property taxes, I do think we will see a majority of budgets approved by voters.

Frank Belluscio

The demand is increasing for government to be more accessible, ... But the way that demand is met is with glitzy services like e-filing [for taxes] or accessing information on a Social Security account.

Gary Bass

We just don't have the numbers on what those sales taxes will be, ... I don't know how we could calculate that.

Mike Simpson

This is a back door way of increasing taxes.

Richard Roll

Tax increases are a dirty word, but the question is if the public would be willing to accept a small surcharge on their taxes to cover the cost of Katrina.

Vernon Ehlers

I think everyone believes the income tax system is not too understandable. I'm proposing the flat tax to get rid of deductions. However I would include a $15,000 dependency deduction so a family of four wouldn't pay taxes until they reach over $60,000 in taxable income.

Charles Weasel

Governors obviously have limited influence other than over their own state [gas] taxes.

Robert Holsworth

There is far-reaching economic recourse to the state that has not been estimated at this time. That's going to be hard to sell to the public - that they are going to pay for in taxes.

Craig Cohoon

The county was the one that had control of what was taking place in Deltona. The one issue that was important was that we were paying taxes to the county, and not too much of that was returned to the city.

John Hernandez

This is completely and utterly predictable. People who don't pay taxes don't get a tax cut.

Dan Mitchell

Cochise County has never had a conversation with the ACC about abating taxes. And not once has Algonquin requested that the taxes be abated. Apparently, the only people who want to see the taxes reduced are some of the commissioners on the ACC.

Pat Call

Republicans raise dahlias, Dalmatians, and eyebrows. Democrats raise Airedales, kids and taxes.

Will Stanton

I can bring back fiscally responsible government the town has enjoyed. By keeping taxes low is the single most important step to keep the town rural.

Christopher Morra

He had this concept in the '50s, and eventually it will come to pass, especially with the rising cost of health care and property taxes.

Tony Amabile

Justice Diaz did not evade taxes, and when all of the facts come out, it will be clear, as it was the last time we were in court, that he is innocent.

Robert Mcduff

Generally, if you buy a software product to prepare your taxes, you must use their system to e-file.

Judy Monahan

We really are about trying to get business to simply add software management to their corporate checklist, ... Many companies are used to paying their taxes and obeying EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] and OSHA [Occupational Safety and Health Administration] laws. We're saying, 'Make sure you've got a system in place to manage software.'

Bob Kruger

His polls have definitely weakened because, one, he had signed the legislative pay-raise bill last year, which was highly unpopular; and, two, he failed to deliver on his promise to lower property taxes.

Clay F. Richards

There are two things that can hurt an economy, one is a deficit and the other is higher taxes, so it's almost a matter of pick your poison, ... But why do we have to run deficits, or why do we need higher taxes? They both really stem from not the tax cuts but from overspending.

Tim Kane

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.

Chris Rock

We will collect windfall-profit taxes in some monopolized sectors within two years.

Lou Jiwei

Alabama is in some sense the star of this report, but that's not a compliment. Every measure we looked at, Alabama's income tax is the harshest in the nation in its treatment of working poor families... Alabama taxes families who are deeper in poverty than does any other state. It's the only state that taxes families in extreme poverty.

Jason Levitis

There's a certain message that resonates with the Republican base, and most of it centers around spending, taxes and values.

Rich Bond

When we look at the newly constructed homes, we ask why the taxes on those homes are $15,000 to $20,000. It's because there is no tax revenue to offset the high taxes, and this plan is a start. We have to start somewhere.

Larry Feldman

I hope they will come back and just focus on solving the problems of how to pay for our schools and reduce property taxes, and not get distracted by special interest legislation.

Carolyn Boyle

County taxes have gone up 39% in the last three years and that is too darn high, ... It's time to cut back, consolidate and get rid of some of these departments in county government.

Bob Bell

Dr Cullen should take our advice and cut business taxes, as well as free businesses from red tape.

John Key

If they wanted to broaden it, then give a tax refund or lower the state taxes.

Jack Mckay

October first is just another step towards collecting more taxes. It's voluntary. A lot of retailers won't start until after the holiday shopping season. It'll be a gradual effect.

Charles Collins

They actually owe me a refund now. I overpaid without realizing it. This is all from old taxes, it's not from the last year or so, it's just built up over time. As far as I know everything is clear now.

Alan Gell

If you're working on the line at Ford or you're an accountant doing taxes day after day, there seems to be no tangible results of your efforts. In a war, there are deaths, but there is personal gratification.

Dennis Orthner

Eventually, you're going to pay those taxes.

Tom Grzymala

When the paper mill closes, the parish will lose more money because people will move or work in other parishes, and less tax money will stay in the parish--which means the schools will lose money coming to them. Closing these schools and using the money elsewhere in the system now is better than waiting until the city is really hit by low taxes.

Richard Hartley

The public seems to be willing to accept sales taxes if developers have paid money.

Robert Wallace

The truth is, both counties benefit from those of us who live up here. Butler County gets our property taxes and Platte County gets our retail sales tax.

Bob Earley

Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.

Charles Adams

I'm flatly opposed to that, ... I'm already subsidizing everybody in the state who has homeowners protection (through caps on homestead assessments) . . . If this goes through, my taxes will be paying for those who don't.

Jim Quinn

Let these people get their education. Don't criminalize them. They pay taxes, and they contribute billions to the economy.

Hector Flores

We are taking steps to develop new strategies and tactics to defuse or defeat efforts to boost state excise taxes.

Susan Ivey

It brings New Jersey in more of the mainstream of other states in terms of our tax policy. Two taxes where New Jersey stood out like a sore thumb in taxing its businesses, where no other state did the same, will now be eliminated.

Philip Kirschner

In the 1960s, it did get to be intolerable. We paid taxes but had to sit at the back of the bus or use separate restrooms. But at the same time, we all realized we could not throw away the relationships we had built.

Wilma Backstrom

We must overhaul our land laws, taxes and information system. Some 90 per cent of land in India is subject to legal disputes over ownership.

Azim H. Premji

Her (34) percent increase in gas taxes is the worst kind of price gouging.

Tim Eyman

There is zero chance any member of the Fortune 100 would ever pay corporate taxes ahead of time. Corporations do not have the slightest interest in paying corporate taxes early. They're not going to volunteer money to the government.

Clint Stretch

Although this procedural change comes after many have already filed their tax returns, about 60 percent of taxpayers still have yet to file. We wanted to do what we could, as soon as it was possible, to make the process easier for those still working on their taxes.

David Stell

[Ultimately, the Internet won't be H&R Block's salvation or its downfall, Sterling says.] Frankly, a lot of people still want to have their hands held while they do taxes, ... The real challenge is finding more products to push at that demographic.

Robert Sterling

We understand their claim to fame is not raising the budget. But we're concerned with all the money paid to administrators. In fact, they should be lowering taxes.

Robert Houser

If they owe taxes, the penalty for not filing a return is quite a bit bigger than not paying the taxes owed. So if you don't have the money to pay what you owe, go ahead and file and you can pay it in installments.

Richard Fern

I stand side by side with Ronald Reagan on less taxes and less government.

Marilyn Brewer

That money is no longer there, and now there is a gap. We'll see increases in property taxes result from that.

Frank Belluscio

I knew I paid taxes, but I have no idea what they go for. It's just one of those things you don't question. You just pay them and go on down the road.

Belinda Wright

Citizens should pay very careful attention to this budget process, given the significant increases in taxes over several years and the difficulty city staff has had in suggesting ways to reduce taxes.

Stephen Daniels

I agree with that. I've always supported a property-tax convention, as long as it includes a look at spending. ... We can't continue to raise taxes to cover spending increases.

Leonard Lance

If the bargain is that you are going to get lower property taxes but higher sales taxes, that is no bargain at all for the folks making less than $100,000. They are going to end up with more of a tax burden than they had before.

Dennis Hartnett

When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.

Ann Coulter

One in four Torrington taxpayers will see their taxes go up if the Congress does not act. This bill will help small businesses and manufacturers grow.

Mayor Ryan Bingham

They may not want to be late. They may not have forgotten this homework on purpose or forgotten to pay their taxes. This person's thinking is affected by chemistry. It's like having an explosion of information and it all blends together.

Linda Anderson

There's no substitute for working with someone year after year, in terms of consistency and planning. The things that may cost you the most on your taxes are things that typically aren't included on the forms, like setting up retirement accounts.

Keith Hall

I still think taxes in Pasco County are a bargain in relation to the rest of the United States.

Dr. Mike Wells

Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.

Jennifer Dunn

Over the course of time, with real estate taxes that will come in, wage taxes, emergency services taxes and just the fact that people have better quality of life, it'll pay for itself tenfold.

Justin Taylor