#tax

President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#conservatives #hear #lower #lowered #more

Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#cleaning #his #income #lady #pays

I don't know the taxpayer has perhaps much of an understanding of just how much wealth has been and is being and can be created that flows through the economy and just how many jobs depend upon it. ↗

— John Anderson

#being #created #depend #economy #flows

Our current tax system is broken. ↗

— Dick Armey

#current #our #system #tax #tax system

Our mission, is to publish books on social and cultural issues, including books on law related to those areas. We are not looking for books on, say, tax policy, etc. ↗

— Thomas Spence

#books #cultural #cultural issues #etc #including

It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on. ↗

— Andrew J. Bacevich

#being #going #knowing #much #our

Reports also suggest that Ernst and Young and other large tax preparation firms are sending tax returns overseas for processing. But the IRS has no control over tax information once it's been sent to India or another country. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#another #been #control #country #ernst

I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank? ↗

— Milton Berle

#filled #forms #get #i #income

Death just shouldn't be a taxable event. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#event #just #taxable

As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs. ↗

— John Spratt

#american #american taxpayers #american troops #cannot #costs