What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government… — Olusegun Obasanjo Copy Share Image
Just because they broke the law doesn't mean they're condemned forever to a twilight status. So, I think that most Americans, if… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The purpose for a tax system is to collect needed revenue at the least cost to the people. — Edward C. Prescott Copy Share Image
From the perspective of corporations, taxes are an additional cost of doing business. If you increase their taxes, to remain profitable they… — Maxime Bernier Copy Share Image
Salaries haven't kept up with inflation, and there is such anger coming out of Washington about immigrants that I think it has… — Jose Serrano Copy Share Image
Consider how badly-built suburbia is. Many business buildings are not designed to outlast their tax depreciation periods, and the McHouses are made… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list --… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
You don't pay taxes; they take them from your check. That's not a payment - that's a 'jack. — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
I wish you wouldn't make the strings such an important part of your arrangements because frankly they're only a tax dodge! — Tommy Dorsey Copy Share Image
The best thing you can say about offshore investors is that they're tax cheats in their home countries. — Harry Markopolos Copy Share Image
There are always principles to be depended upon in this matter of taxation ... Amidst the inconsistent, the bewildering representations offered, a… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
[The taxing power of the state] divides the community into two great classes: one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
You're not getting this back you know. Consider it an asshole tax. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There is apparently nowhere a workable majority in the representative assemblies for making the specific cuts in expenditure which could bring down… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax. — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
The capital gains tax is 15 percent now. So I sit there in my office and I make a lot of money… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy. — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
The income tax only taxed the Rockefellers, the Morgans and the Vanderbilts. It was aimed at the top 4 percent, and the… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
I supported Obama because of his relationships. A lot of the things he believes in, you would say that it's not in… — Dwyane Wade Copy Share Image
It is not wise for us to permit a few people on the Federal Reserve Board to have life and death power… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The freedom-hating gun-grabbers do not care about reducing crime or saving lives, or they wouldn't be fighting for more gun-free zones where… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
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