If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.
Mario Cuomo
Next to taxes it's the single biggest income for the county.
Jack Sullivan
When we finished building our house in 2000, our taxes were $1,700 a year. Next year they will be well over $10,000. But the guy around the corner with the same size house is only paying $2,500. It's not fair.
John Sheldon
Anyone who wants to cut taxes on energy as an answer to higher oil prices has already lost, ... You would be opening your national budget to OPEC and the oil industry.
Hans Eichel
We believe that it is a convenient way for consumers to pay their taxes and also get something in return. The feedback we've received about past promotions similar to this is positive.
Jessica Iben
Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.
Bill Delahunt
Without the budget, things suffer ? teachers can lose jobs and programs can be taken away. It's not just a matter of trying to get taxes down ? that's part of it, but that's just one part of it.
Michael Payton
We expect it (increased sales taxes) will continue that way through the year. With Mardi Gras, as well as Festival International, we will see only more people here, not just Katrina residents here, but more visitors.
Jules Gaudin
People had to take a loan out to pay their taxes. How are they going to pay for this?
Jeff Montgomery
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
Paula Poundstone
If we don't cut taxes, we'll invent emergencies to spend the money on.
John Kasich
The Internal Revenue Service never sent my client a letter saying he underpaid his taxes.
Robert Mcduff
These tax-cut proposals are especially encouraging. Cutting taxes on workers and businesses creates jobs.
Daniel Walsh
Taxes are not fun. If this is what being an adult is, then I don't want to grow up.
Arnold Serapilio
These policies help protect dependent children and the estate [by paying estate taxes] if the remaining spouse dies.
David Woods
We have seen an average increase of about 6 percent this year over last year. The growth we have seen is driving up the value of property throughout the county. Of course, you have some areas that have seen more increases than others, but just about everyone will see an increase in their taxes paid.
Mike Harper
Someone might find low taxes agreeable, but not the way tax revenues are spent, such as on education.
Keith Schwer
This year we're debating about what taxes we're going to cut, not whether we're going to have any tax cuts.
Joe Negron
Kerry's economic policies would raise taxes on minority small-business owners, whose numbers are steadily increasing as a result of the President's pro-growth policies. Under President Bush's leadership, a majority of minority families are homeowners for the first time in history.
Steve Schmidt
I think if you look at most polling, Californians want their taxes on gas to go toward improving the transportation system, not toward something that might marginally improve carbon emissions.
Allan Zaremberg
Taxes are the single largest cost for shareholders.
Joel Dickson
It doesn't make the coal burn more efficiently, ... It doesn't make it burn more clean. It does generate a tax credit. It's a way of dodging taxes.
Lloyd Doggett
I've got three basic, foolish thoughts today about taxes. Let's take it right off with number one, which is that I believe that there should be a long-term benefit to owning stocks.
David P. Gardner
Despite this decades-long setback, America's fascination with lottery games would continue, as would the desire of states to find alternative methods of funding critical and worthy programs without raising taxes.
Jim Scroggins
The part that gripes us is the 'outreach' because it's not unbiased. I think it's inappropriate for a government agency to use taxpayer money to convince people to raise their taxes.
Mike Arnold
It's going to be a problem just coming to consensus at all. Every state has its own mixture of taxation, either through income taxes or sales tax.
Seema Williams
We want a timeout. What's happening is state tax administrators have, by their own interpretation, issued tax advisories to taxpayers who have inquired whether they should collect taxes through the Internet.
Carol Cayo
I'm sure it's embarrassing to some people to have their names listed as owing taxes. But it's our duty to do everything in our powers to collect the taxes.
Gloria Whisenhunt
We've proposed an increase in our rates, but we've also proposed some other things to help pay for it. We're not advocating a tax increase. We pay taxes ourselves.
Thoman Malone
We don't think that arbitrary caps work well. The costs of the local tax burdens have risen because the largest part of the school budgets are paid by local taxes. The problem is not at the local level.
David Ernst
We pay our property taxes and buy our license plates in David City and that's about it. We do go to Bellwood occasionally for a steak, but from where we live Columbus is very convenient.
Bob Earley
We believe that the best way to expand health care is with tobacco taxes.
Vincent Demarco
Years ago, when we started the death-tax-repeal movement, we tapped into a sentiment that we hadn't really expected to be out there. Death taxes are viewed as contradictory to the American dream.
Bill Beach
Financial people, investors, are there for people in different areas. It's the same with taxes. Some people will never be comfortable with doing their own taxes.
Hal Roberts
In my estimate, my best guess is about 70 percent of the fatality crashes that we work involve people who don't live in the city, who don't pay city taxes.
Greg Graham
I don't know if Minnesota has anything to lament. It's never bad to have high income. But high income does bring high taxes.
Curtis Dubay
The governor's numbers are moving in the right direction. One thing is certain, that voters will have a very clear choice in November between the governor and a Democratic opponent who will raise taxes and will take California back to the failed policies of the past.
Katie Levinson
All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.
H. L. Mencken
The AMT is an entirely different way to calculate your taxes, and it's not really an alternative, as the name suggests. You have no choice. And it's affecting more and more people all the time.
David Mellem
Whenever you start an entirely new state bureaucracy like this initiative proposes, the costs always exceed initial estimates. When that happens, parents of preschool children could be charged a fee or the legislature could raise taxes on all Californians to keep the new bureaucracy going.
Larry Mccarthy
When taxes come in, we're going to have another surplus of money. I don't know if we are doing right by the taxpayers. I don't understand what happened here on Thursday night.
Councilman Charles Matthews
Payments received in lieu of taxes.
George Russell
What this bill does in its heart is allow one group of people to affect education and taxes of other people without their input.
Martin Bates
Now is not the time to be simultaneously going forward with a bill on taxes and Medicaid.
Heather Wilson
The (property tax) rate stays the same, but the taxes go up all the time.
John Parsons
I bring to the table the ability to bring the Conservative and Republican parties together, ... I understand the need for jobs upstate, the issue of taxes on Long Island and the issues of sprawl and quality of life right here in the Hudson Valley.
Patrick Manning
Most importantly, include potential tax payments in your budget of expenses. Plan ahead to pay taxes just as you plan ahead to pay for holiday gifts, birthday celebrations, and more.
Cate Williams
They're now looking at a situation where their shareholders are going to see the fund is down for the year but they're going to have to pay taxes on large gains. The managers are selling tech stocks that they might have bought at higher prices to realize losses and offset the gains.
Alfred Kugel
Kentuckians in 2004 paid $236-million in taxes in Indiana and Illinois. I find that offensive.
James Navolio
You're in a situation where you're stuck, because no government wants to go out there and say, 'we're in dire fiscal straits, we've got to increase taxes'.
David Watt
The cost of living has become very important and as prices rise -- which they will -- it will become more important. Housing has to be the most important factor, taxes are crucial as well; healthcare has also become an issue, as well as childcare.
Bert Sperling
It's always pleasing to hear we have a low tax burden. The governor is very conscious of the tax burden that both businesses and individuals pay. That's why the governor will do everything he can before raising taxes, including looking for ways to close loopholes that allow some to avoid taxes.
Hal Harper
There was a fear that this could be used as a vehicle to raise taxes in the county. That was never the intent.
Sen. Brooks Mccabe
The one thing the republican coalition could agree on was lowering taxes. This president and the Republican leadership both remember the cataclysm of the early 1990s, when they broke with that consensus. Spending cuts are painful. Tax cuts aren't. Supply side economists thought tax cuts spelt the end of 'root-canal Republicanism'.
William Galston
If the president forces us to choose between his raising taxes or raiding Social Security to fund his expansion of government, his budget is dead on arrival, ... A lame duck president should not be able to derail us on the way toward retiring the national debt, tax relief and saving Social Security.
John Kasich
If you're getting too large a refund back that means you've not done a good job of anticipating what your taxes are going to be and you've given the IRS an interest-free loan all year. You have to adjust your withholdings this year to have your taxes break a little closer to even next year.
Dennis Means
It's a way to keep taxes down and a way to make sure there won't be new taxes. If it passes, what it would really do is make the legislature second banana in the budget process.
Larry Gerston
The truth is, Idaho has some of the lowest property taxes in the country and our system is really pretty balanced and not in need of dramatic change. But it seems pretty clear that something will come out of the Legislature this year, probably a mix of several approaches. Because there is no single silver bullet.
Steve Ahrens
Here is a man who is a very positive person. He's very involved in his church and in his community. He desperately wants to work and pay taxes, and keeps getting a roadblock.
Brandyn Keating
None of us want to pay more taxes, but the alternative is even worse.
Dwayne Pielech
The Spitzer ticket misses the point. The way to create jobs and improve the climate for businesses is to cut taxes and control spending.
Andrea Tantaros
Only Chuck Blasdel would think he's solved his ethical and legal problems by only partially paying what he owes in back taxes.
Adrienne Elrod
The local governments should be putting more resources into this. They should be raising taxes, whatever they have to do to deal with people who are breaking the laws of this land. I can tell you this for a fact that they would come up with the money if they knew specifically it would go to house these individuals or to provide more of this service.
Rep. Dave Schultheis
I think it's probably to do with the fact that the industry itself has some enemies, kind of neo-prohibitionists. There's always someone trying to basically put us out of business or increase our excise taxes or whatever.
George Hancock
It will compensate our employees not what they're worth, but what we can afford without raising taxes.
Peter Flynn
We hope to get others involved, including veterans. This is my fifth term on the board and tax relief has always been an issue we've heard about. A lot of older people are leaving town because they just can't afford taxes. They're not getting the increases in social security and we're asking for 5, 6 , 7 percent more in taxes.
John Romano
The most common reason is that they simply don't want to pay school fees and taxes.
Art Trinidade
Most businesspeople are properly skeptical of government programs labeled 'streamlined,' ... I'm skeptical of the burden this is placing on some smaller businesses. I'm skeptical of government's efforts to force retailers to charge taxes for an incredible number of municipalities around the country.
Patrick Anderson
The tax is not one of the largest of the proposed taxes, but they do add up and they do have a negative impact on businesses.
David Brogan
It's a balance. We are responding to the increasing cost pressures from fuel and government taxes and fees, and balancing that with customer requests for simple and less-expensive travel.
Gina Laughlin
Homicides are very rare. We live in a community where people pay their taxes and go to church.
Chief Leonard Gallo
It was the finest piece of legislation ever passed. Just in income taxes alone, the government got back several times over what it had spent on college tuition.
Anthony Stasio
At a price for the arena at $350 million, this community -- without raising taxes, through the economic benefit that will occur from the building of this facility, fund a third of that cost, ... You have expanded opportunities for restaurants, entertainment facilities, housing as well as parking.
Jerry Abramson
The only people who are actually paying the taxes are new home buyers. A lot of the wealthy people are not paying the taxes they should be paying, and a lot of the middle-class people are actually bearing the tax burden.
Bill Aaron
And when the income tax was introduced, she was the first person to sue the government over taxes.
Hutton Wilkinson
We want to reform hospitals, ensure better care of the elderly, increase maternity leave to one year... tighten policy regarding foreigners and, from day one, put a lid on taxes.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Once you hit that income level, you can't take as much of a write-off on your mortgage interest, your taxes or your charitable contributions. It used to be that if your adjusted gross income was more than $126,000, we'd tell you to buy a bigger house for the write-off, but not anymore.
Beanna Whitlock
Just admit it, Tim, you raised taxes, ... He broke ties in the Senate, folks. That was his only duty [as lieutenant governor]. I know Governor Warner would be surprised to hear you took credit for 'budget reform.'
Jerry Kilgore
We're not second-class citizens. We pay taxes. We want the same quality of life that's west of I-35. We're very adamant about that we're going to get it because I'm going to hound you every Thursday and be in front of your face.
Christopher Johnson
For a governor who signed the despised legislative pay raise and saw his plan to use gambling money to lower property taxes go down in flames, Ed Rendell ought to be called Teflon Ed.
Clay F. Richards
The federal government has been spending much more of this 'found' (surplus) money in transfers to the provinces and other expenditures that consume current prosperity rather than investing in future prosperity or reducing taxes and debt.
Roger Martin
We've seen nothing but increases in terms of taxes and fees, but what we still see is a budget that falls short of fully funding the schools.
Kevin Gorman
Spending is rising and the deficit is rising, the question is will they have to raise taxes further?
London School
Taxpayers who can itemize and fail to do so are literally leaving millions of dollars of overpaid taxes with the government.
Mark Steber
We are living in the Clinton years in economic stagnation. Your incomes are not growing, but your taxes are.
Richard Armey
I was merely passing on the message that I was hearing from voters that they are concerned about their property taxes.
Jack Frost
County taxes should be cut. Collin County pays some of the highest gas taxes ...and we are 15th in the bottom for expenditures.
Rick Neudorff
Lower taxes are great, but if its going to cost you money, it's not worth it. If a stock hits your sell range after 3 months, do you really want to risk 9 more months of fluctuation to get a lower tax rate?
David Mellem
Taxes should not be the driving force, but it's an important factor.
Douglas Moore
It was very quiet. There was a lot of confusion over exactly what the government is talking about in terms of whether they are going to start cutting taxes.
Robert Sasaki
I'm not sure staying revenue neutral will be totally beneficial for the city, ... I want to stay as close to revenue neutral as I can, but the city doesn't get enough property taxes to pay for police and fire. The city needs the money to operate.
George Cleveland
Texans should not be taxed on our taxes.
Kay Hutchison
Rain or shine, taxes are due next Monday.
Dan Mcallister
He owes us one year of back taxes right now and one year of current taxes.
Bob Patterson
A lot of things have occurred that have resulted in a decrease in retail (tax clients). It would seem that that could be one of the factors that are generating a lot of interest in people doing their own taxes.
Michael Millman
The burden shouldn't always fall on the taxpayers of Union City; everyone new to the city should pay taxes.
Frank Alonzo
Well it's a 15 percent federal tax, those who live in New York City, you do have New York State and city taxes which add up to another 11, 12 percent on top of that.
David Sands
HOUSELESS, adj. Having paid all taxes on household goods.
Ambrose Bierce
If assessment is up 19 per cent or less [on a property], than an individual's property taxes would go down if it is assumed [the City] would raise the same in 2006 as in 2005.
Brian Horton
There's a $48,000 gap in there. That money is being used to pay for taxes and the monthly note so it won't be a financial burden or strain on her.
Jarvis Johnson
The strong remittances and additional government spending this year should help mitigate the adverse impact of additional taxes and high oil prices on consumer spending.
Jonathan Ravelas
About 25 percent of the people who use a computer program to calculate their taxes print out the paper work and mail it in instead of filing electronically. It makes no sense but it happens a lot.
Gregg Semanick
The emissions trading scheme must be given every opportunity to succeed, ... Increasing taxes on aviation is a blunt way of placing additional costs on the industry without offering any guarantee of a reduction in emissions.
Andrew Sentance
So now everybody who paid higher taxes has to go back and recalculate 2002 taxes.
Joe Mcdermott
It's unfair to call it a tax. It is a one-time fee that will be charged to the buyer, not like property taxes that reoccur every year.
Doug Dittko
You can hear the shock and dismay when we tell them what their taxes will be without their homestead and cap.
Erin Moore
Federal law provides serious penalties for filing false tax forms. People who engage in tax fraud schemes can expect to pay back taxes, plus interest and penalties, and may face criminal prosecution for evading taxes.
Eileen J. O'connor
If they're not thinking about taxes we want to educate them that this may be something they need to explore.
Elizabeth Colvin
He believes this will bring some fiscal accountability to the federal government. It does that without raising taxes and at the same time is helping as many of those in need as possible.
Erik Iverson
They want the things Louisiana already has. What they don't want is income taxes and sales taxes as high as we have in the metropolitan areas.
Elliott Stonecipher
A lot of people who get laid off from corporate jobs end up doing some freelance work, ... But people who are coming from a job with a paycheck are not knowledgeable about the expenses they can file on Schedule C. They should familiarize themselves with those deductions. If they have considerable self-employment income, they can set up a Keogh or SEP IRA to shelter some of the income from taxes.
Eric Tyson
As long as you can pay a lot of taxes, you can smoke.
Alfred Rock
Taxes are so complicated people are just happy to come out ahead on April 15 rather than behind.
Ellen Katz
Citizens want taxes off their homes. They've suffered long enough.
Emerson Read
Normally, Mardi Gras is when we make all our money to pay our taxes and back bills.
Earl Bernhardt
Repealing the individual AMT will cost $1.2 trillion. Either that has to come from higher taxes or reduced tax expenditures or some combination.
Elizabeth Garrett
When I am finished college, I am moving to another state where tax dollars are well spent, ... In the meantime, I will be sure to vote for ..people who will recognize true problems in our state such as our poor education system and high property taxes, not how many more thousands of dollars they can pocket for nothing.
Elizabeth Davis
He doesn't avoid hits to get where he wants to go. You saw that in the (state record) tax increase (in 2003). Raising taxes is never popular, especially with the Republicans. But Guinn went in and took the shots because he felt it needed to be done.
Eric Herzik
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