The sales tax is a necessary source of revenue to pay for Japan's social welfare. — Yoshihide Suga Copy Share Image
Expanding the sales tax base contradicts the primary function of California's sales tax law, stifles innovation and hurts our state's robust e-commerce… — Michelle Steel Copy Share Image
Aasking a billionaire to pay at least as much as his secretary in taxes? Most Americans would call that common sense. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I live in Portland now. It's beautiful from day one. The Food and the beer, and no sales tax. Get your iPad… — David Giuntoli Copy Share Image
The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
The Value-Added Tax, a sales tax that applies at every level of business transactions, is an easy tax for governments to collect,… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
No one wants to contribute to the murder of others, tell people the fact that 55% of their tax money goes towards… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City.… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
“Then, instead of relying on income and property taxes to fund the government and the nation’s war mobilization, planners suggested that it… — Garrett M. Graff Copy Share Image
The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers,… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
“To write a lot, you should rethink your mental models of rejection and publication. Rejections are like a sales tax on publications:… — Paul J. Silvia Copy Share Image
California's Depression-era lawmakers, who created our sales, use and personal income tax laws, thought it was wrong to double-tax goods and services.… — Michelle Steel Copy Share Image
I really like the idea of consumption tax, and most countries have a pretty serious consumption tax. It's called a value-added tax… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
“When New York passed its Internet sales-tax law, Amazon’s sales in New York State dropped 10 percent over the next quarter, according… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
I don't see how a lowering of VAT helps much, in terms of stimulus. VAT is a form of sales tax. It… — Kwasi Kwarteng Copy Share Image
The Value-Added Tax, a sales tax that applies at every level of business transactions, is an easy tax for governments to collect,… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax." I whirled around to find the real Patch standing in… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus,… — James Traficant Copy Share Image
One measure for promoting both stability and fairness across financial market segments is a small sales tax on all financial transactions -… — Robert Pollin Copy Share Image
A lot of Americans think they got a tax cut, and they didn't because their local property tax went up, their excise… — Senator John Kerry Copy Share Image
“Does the flat tax work?...The flat tax works in a country that is a former Communist state, with no investment capital, and… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
New Hampshire has always been cheap, mean, rural, small-minded, and reactionary. It's one of the few states in the nation with neither… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
“Because consumption comes from three sources: income, savings, and borrowings. Stating the obvious, income comes only from income. Our point? FairTax opponents… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
“To make up for the projected billion-dollar-a-year shortfall created by the many new tax cuts he helped to deliver, something had to… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
With all due respect to Speaker Hastert, trying to eliminate the IRS by adopting a national retail sales tax is a very… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
The 'Main Street' retailers ... see customers come to the store to locate items ... only to leave and order the items… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The sales tax, excise and property registration departments are all more eager to collect cash in their drawers than to collect for… — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
One measure for promoting both stability and fairness across financial market segments is a small sales tax on all financial transactions. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they… — Michael Enzi Copy Share Image
I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001. — Bill Delahunt Copy Share Image
We are a no sales tax state. That applies across the board, to our citizens and those in other states. Period. — Chris Sununu Copy Share Image
Seen in the context of Donald Trump having committed sales tax fraud in the past, which is indisputable, I think that it's… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Eastern Washington families and businesses should be able to deduct every penny of state and local sales tax they pay throughout the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some years down the pike, we're going to get the real solution, which is going to be a combination of death panels… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
