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“I have the perfect simplified tax form for government. Why don't they just print our money with a return address on it?”

Government Form Politics Perfect Return Taxes Addresses Print

Author:Bob Hope

“Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best most responsibly and responsively when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.”

People Needs Government Principles Taxes Institutions Addresses Accountability Providing Closest Transparent Collecting Government Work

Book:Dark Age Ahead

Source: Dark Age Ahead

“If you raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, you'll do nothing to address the debt and the deficit. And the thing you might do is you might finally put this economy over another cliff. These millionaires and billionaires are the folks that try to create jobs and help grow the economy.”

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Author:Joe Walsh

“When preparing your return, you should be sure to avoid common mistakes. The two most common taxpayer mistakes, states the IRS booklet, are (1) "failure to include a current address," and (2) "failure to be a large industry that gives humongous contributions to key tax-law-writing congresspersons."”

Giving Should Writing Two States Law Common Mistake Keys Industry Return Taxes Currents Contribution Addresses Preparing Taxpayers Irs

Book:The World According to Dave Barry

Source: The World According to Dave Barry

“Every candidate running for president has got to answer the following very simple question: At a time when we need to address the planetary crisis of climate change, and transform our energy system away from fossil fuels and into energy efficiency and sustainability, should we continue to give $135 billion in tax breaks and subsidies over the next decade to fossil fuel companies?”

“They're all tied together: taxes, Medicare, Social Security, and the debt. We've got to have a setting of priorities, and looking at it - at each of them as disconnected, I think, doesn't properly address these major challenges.”

Thinking Together Social Challenges Security Taxes Majors Debt Priorities Setting Settings Addresses Tied Social Security Medicare Disconnected

Author:John McCain

“We've excused all houses up to $750,000 from our property-purchase tax. We have more to do. There are other measures we intend to take to try and address housing affordability. There are things we can do. There are limits to it and we can't do it by ourselves.”

Trying House Can Do Limits Taxes Property Addresses Housing Affordability

Author:Christy Clark

“The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.”

Way Needs States Problem Light Faces Individual Community Answers Results Greater Higher Taxes Waste Spending Priorities Addresses Locality

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973