“The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for the secretary of commerce's office, to bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn ... seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime. Surely civilization would collapse without such essential services.” MenYearsEnoughLastsPayQualityFourWeekTvsCivilizationTaxesEssentialsOfficeLowsPaidPlantSevenTerrorCustomsFarmersSovietRegimesCollapseCommerceLast YearSecretaryCurtainsSalaryCornWheatPropsHigh QualityBribeAcresSubsidiesMedianFederal Taxes Author:Alan Bock
“Why is it so hard to see that when America had high savings, low taxes and minimal government, the economy grew like a week, and today when we have just the opposite, the economy is shrinking.?” HardGovernmentTodayAmericaEconomyWeekGrewTaxesLowsOppositesSavingSavingsShrinking Author:James Cook
“Your taxes are due a week from today. You can make out your check directly to Halliburton. Or you can do what I'm going to do. I'm filing my first joint return. No, I'm not getting married, I'm sending the IRS an actual joint with a note that says, 'If you think I'm paying for this war, you must be high.'” IfsThinkingFirstsWarTodayCan DoWeekReturnTaxesMarriedNotesDuesChecksJointsGetting MarriedIrsMake OutFiling Author:Bill Maher
“I believe the United States should join the rest of the world through paid family and medical leave. It would cost us a $1.61 a week in an increase in payroll tax.I think that`s a great investment.” ThinkingWorldShouldBelieveStatesI BelieveUnitedUnited StatesWeekCostTaxesIncreasePaidInvestmentMedicalPayrollPayroll Tax Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“First of all, she Hillary Clinton is going to raise taxes on the middle class. I actually think that's the only truthful thing she's said in about three weeks.” ThinkingFirstsSaidThreeClassWeekMiddleTaxesRaisesClintonMiddle ClassTruthful Author:Rudy Giuliani
“Donald Trump has broken his first promise [to release taxes]. Second he stood on this stage last week and when Hillary said you haven't been paying taxes, he said, that makes me smart. So it's smart not to pay for our military. It's smart not to pay for veterans, it's smart not to pay for teachers and I guess all of us who do pay for those things I guess we're stupid.” FirstsSaidLastsPayTeacherWeekStageMilitaryHavensStupidBrokenTrumpPromiseTaxesSmartReleaseVeteranPaying Taxes Author:Tim Kaine
“I was a carpenter in Northern Vermont and got this tax refund check that just about covered a one-way airfare to London. So this I saw as a sign from God. So I went over to see Ray [Hussett] for a couple of weeks and ended up staying 10 years. I got work as a stage carpenter at the Oval House in Kennington, South London.” WayYearsHouseSawsWeekStageCoupleTaxesSouthLondonChecksOne WayStayingCoveredRaysCarpenterVermontOvalRefundsSigns From God Author:John Ratzenberger
“If you're a full-time manager of your own property - and full-time, according to Congress, is 15 hours a week - you can take unlimited depreciation and use it to offset your income from other areas and pay little in tax. One of the biggest real estate tax lawyers in New York said to me, if you're a major real estate family and you're paying income taxes, you should sue your tax lawyer for malpractice.” RealHoursWeekTaxesPropertyLawyerIncome Tax Author:Hillary Clinton
“Donald Trump is a businessman, not a career politician. He actually built a business. Those tax returns that were - that came out publicly this week show that he faced some pretty tough times 20 years ago. But like virtually every other business, including the New York Times not too long ago, he used what's called net operating loss. We have a tax code that actually is designed to encourage entrepreneurship in this country.” LongCountryLossWeekPoliticianTaxesToughEntrepreneurshipCodeBusinessmanTough Times Author:Mike Pence
“I don't know a lot of writers, even writers who have been on the bestseller list for a few weeks, or writers who have gotten movie options, who can live on just their writing income. Once you break it down to the years it took to write the book, place it, promote it, and you pay the agent, pay the taxes, the annual income is not enough to live on comfortably. I do not have a starving artist inclination. I'm from the working class. I don't feel creative unless I feel like my house is going to be there and I'm going to be fed. I can't worry about money and write. Maybe some people can.” PeopleWritingBookEnoughArtistHouseBreakWorryCreativeWeekTaxesWorking ClassStarving Artist Author:Debra Monroe