“The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn’t understand. And it ended in tragedy.” LanguageTaxesTragedyOpera Author:Jeff MacNelly
“Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?” LanguageTaxesPhrasesEnglish LanguageMenace Author:Erica Jong
“There's nothing good about being certain about things. And I don't think there's any real talent in using language in a manipulative way, with phrases like "tax relief" or "Social Security reform." It's politically clever, but it's also completely disingenuous, and it's not something to aspire to.” ThinkingWayRealCertainLanguageSocialTalentSecurityTaxesCleverReformPhrasesReliefAspireSocial SecurityManipulativeDisingenuousReal Talent Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.” LanguageTaxesUselessUnnecessaryEnglish LanguageEnglishmen Book:Collected Works Source: Collected Works
“Money is a topic that touches all races, all religions, all sexes, all ages, all tax brackets. It's a universal language that truly has been held up to us in society as a thing that determines whether we are successful, worthy, whether we have contributed something to life or not.” Has BeensAgeLanguageSexRaceSuccessfulTaxesUniversalDetermineWorthyTopicsUniversal LanguageBrackets Author:Suze Orman
“Economic growth, profitability, prosperity, jobs, increased jobs, increased wages, they're able to get that tax rate down to 15% and we're gonna call it tax relief, not tax breaks, not tax loopholes. It's important to control and reclaim the language here.” ImportantAbleJobsLanguageGrowthBreakEconomicTaxesRateProsperityReliefWagesEconomic GrowthLoopholesProfitabilityTax Breaks Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The failure of the first Barack Obama administration to really deliver on a new War on Poverty and a new language to explain these societal challenges in some ways provided the fuel that led to the Occupy Movement a few years later. And, while Occupy was a somewhat transitory phenomenon, many of the activist groups that emerged during this period are still out there, and still working on reshaping the political debate around taxes, around welfare, around government assistance to the poor, around debt relief for students, and so on.” WarPoliticalLanguageChallengesPoorPovertyStudentsTaxesDebateBarackWelfarePhenomenonActivistWar On Poverty Author:Sasha Abramsky