Even tax breaks that are supposed to help the middle class too often skew toward the wealthy. Consider the mortgage interest deduction.… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
“What a lovely thing a rose is!" He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Unlike every other retirement vehicle, such as IRAs and 401(k)s, you receive a tax deduction for making contributions to your HSA but… — Paul Zane Pilzer Copy Share Image
“The sensible man,' Crow had said (to Sherlock Holmes), 'don't look to confirm what he already knows -- he looks to deny… — Andrew Lane Copy Share Image
“There is nothing distinctively scientific about the hypothetico-deductive process. It is not even distinctively intellectual. It is merely a scientific context for… — Peter B. Medawar Copy Share Image
“There's also a possibility that the landlord is in there right now, wearing women's undergarments. Or a drug addict is inside stealing… — Derek B. Miller Copy Share Image
“Dullards would have you believe that once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth... but to… — Kim Newman Copy Share Image
“It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part,… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur… — Harold Ford, Jr Copy Share Image
The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
“It was quite elementary,' returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand.” — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“To engage the written word means to follow a line of thought, which requires considerable powers of classifying, inference-making and reasoning. It… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The real world was far too real to leave neat little hints. It was full of too many things. It wasn't by… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A greater tax deduction for students is not a handout. On the contrary, it helps those who are willing to meet the… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
Tax laws favor capital over labor, giving capital gains a lower rate than ordinary income. The rich get humongous mortgage interest deductions… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
“Logical reasoning may be a most convenient means of mental communication for covering short distances, but the curvature of the earth, alas,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
There are some tax expenditures that are there for very obvious and very important and very good policy reasons. Whether it's the… — Chuck Schumer Copy Share Image
“True deduction can only be obtained through a certain amount of self annihilation.” — Joe Riggs Copy Share Image
“You look at me as if I were a conjuror,' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.” — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Emotional speculation is to deductive reasoning what weeds are to a garden – at first sight they appear to belong, but eventually… — Lord Patterson Coats Copy Share Image
“The knowledge of certain principles easily compensates the lack of knowledge of certain facts.” — Claude Adrien Helvétius Copy Share Image
“Only an idiot guesses or reasons or deduces ,’ the Professor said, patiently.” — Kim Newman Copy Share Image
Once the housing market begins to recover, I would phase out the mortgage tax deduction. — Joshua A. Tucker Copy Share Image
