Excise Quotes

13 quotes by 13 authors

The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and preemptory spirit of excise laws. — Alexander Hamilton
In a general sense, all contributions imposed by the government upon individuals for the service of the state, are called taxes, by whatever name they… — Joseph Story
My long-time view about Christianity is that it represents an amalgam of two seemingly immiscible parts-the religion of Jesus and the religion of Paul. Thomas… — Carl Sagan
Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones. — Mike Fitzpatrick
I'll tell you what I'd do if it were up to me: I would establish a strictly controlled distribution network through which I would make… — George Soros
Crazy to think that we're having surgery, we're trying to excise cancer, we don't know where the cancer is. We're trying to preserve nerves; we… — Nguyen Quyen
As per the age-old Customs and Central Excise Rules 1967, a person is allowed to carry only Rs 20,000 worth of gold. — Vayalar Ravi
Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive. — Nigel Farage
The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had… — Alan Keyes
A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time. — Joyce Carol Oates
In the current climate motorists have a long list of issues from which to choose to raise on the doorstep. Policies aimed at reducing emissions… — Lucy Powell
The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows… — Vladimir Nabokov
A lot of Americans think they got a tax cut, and they didn't because their local property tax went up, their excise tax went up,… — Senator John Kerry

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