Taxing Quotes

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I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party shortly after I… — Nicolas Cage
When you're filming, you work 19-hour days and you know more about what's going on with your crew and co-workers than you do with your… — Kim Cattrall
Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property. — Thomas Carlyle
It's not just the over $8 billion that we would be saving in law enforcement; it's also the over $8 billion that we would be… — Arianna Huffington
The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people… — William Cobbett
Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums… — Nicholas D. Kristof
I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is… — Miriam Makeba
[The taxing power of the state] divides the community into two great classes: one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the taxes and, of… — John C. Calhoun
Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of so- called economists… — Henry Hazlitt
Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be… — Jennifer Connelly
You can't wrestle forever. It's a very physically taxing job. There's no doubt about it. Physically, and more importantly, mentally. — Chris Jericho
Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for… — Thomas Carlyle
It is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and… — James Madison
The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money and… — Laurance Labadie
I will strive to make this not the highest-spending country in the world, but instead the lowest taxing o-ne. — Stephen Harper
Painting figures is the hardest, certainly the most taxing genre, and you have to be the most on your game. If you have significant drawing… — Jacob Collins
Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the… — Barack Obama, Sr.
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. — Mortimer Adler
I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection… — Jay Kay
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have… — Edmund Burke

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