Taxed Quotations

If telecom are seen as a rightful infrastructure for the growth of many other sectors in the economy and the multiplier force, then I think it doesn't deserve to be taxed so high.

In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented.

Income should be taxed one time at one rate, not again and again.

The most powerful nation on earth should be able to pass a fair, effective immigration law that combines compassion with responsibility and does not injure hard working Americans who are taxed up to here.

The gap between rich and poor under President Obama is getting bigger because fewer well-paying jobs are available. Corporations are being taxed to the hilt and are loathe to add more workers. Thus, salaries fall because there are more than enough applicants to fill any job vacancy.

Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only. Who are ever taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent? Individuals only.

I'd like Americans to save their money, and not get taxed on their savings.

legal but taxed and regulated like other goods.

millionaire and a nurse would be taxed the same. It is unfair.

Online shopping, anything involving pictures, downloading music can use up too much of a taxed system.

One of the difficulties is when the veterans are given a tax break, the rest of the citizens are going to be taxed more heavily.

I wouldn't go out and automatically seek out dividend-paying stocks. They are now taxed at the same rate, but capital gains retain their preference because you can defer capital gains.

I can't really say a whole lot that you can print. Any time you give up three power-play goals in a game, your chances of winning aren't very good. We had a lot of guys who were taxed by all the penalties these last two games.

If it's a pension plan, every dollar you take out is subject to ordinary income tax because that gain has never been taxed before and the IRS wants your money.

He has opposed similar efforts in the past. I can't see him supporting a tax increase of any kind. He believes Missourians are taxed enough.

There is no functional difference between a wire-based phone call and a wireless phone call, so they should be taxed the same way. Cellular providers have chosen to pass the tax to their consumers. They could have chosen to absorb all or some of the tax as a cost of doing business.

We don't tax British diplomats in Washington, and we don't expect our diplomats to be taxed here either. We had negotiations for over a year on this issue and couldn't come to an agreement.

We have the knowledge and materials to protect our water, power and sewage treatment facilities, ... It's not going to be cheap, but it would produce enormous numbers of jobs. But it will only happen if the American public conveys that we want to be taxed for this priority.

The rate at which the profit is taxed depends on whether or not the property depreciated in value.

We're trying to help other states offer some form of tax relief because of the very problem we see in Nevada we're seeing around the country - rapidly escalated values and people being taxed out of their homes.

You have to be taxed. Just because you work a little harder to have a little bit more money taken from you, I mean, that's scary. I worked hard for it. Why should I be taxed more than other people?

Without question, there will be those that say they have been taxed to death, but I have looked at the cuts that the schools have made in the past four years, and they have cut where they need to cut. But the failure of this levy will only weaken the school system.

We need to look at reality. These companies are not going to move in here if they are taxed at full value.

To many people, that's what the true compensation is and what the executives get taxed on. Not until the stock vests can individuals put it in their pockets, and now investors are going to be able to see what it's worth.

We will only agree to other tax increases in the talks if people with higher incomes are taxed more heavily.

This way, the relief really goes to those people who may have been taxed out of their homes as a result.

Things that some people have come to view as income and are used to being taxed on would not be taxable anymore.

The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent, flings him

Sometimes my military clients misunderstand that if the spouse gets a part-time job wherever they are living that that income is taxed as if they were a resident, ... So on your returns, you'll have a situation where one spouse is a non-resident and the other is a resident.

People that oppose the bond issue do so on purely financial terms, ... Especially older people ... see themselves as being taxed out of their homes.

Space development and settlement will not happen if it's internationally taxed and controlled, ... I think space settlement is a social 'release valve' that we desperately need. ... It's only going to get more crowded here on Earth.

The money channeled from failed industries to small businesses would be taxed at higher rates, and that would be harmful to the economy,

The budget is broad-based, energetic and on balance very positive. There is some much-needed corporate tax relief for our customers and for carriers; there is recognition that business inputs should not be taxed at all; and, there is a new highway and borders infrastructure fund. The government has definitely tried to cover all the base paths with regard to their priority areas.

A larger-than-expected decline in crude oil may spook the market. There is a strong historical trend for inventories to fall at the end of the year, although it hasn't happened yet. Refiners are taxed on the inventories they hold at the end of the year, so there is every incentive to reduce what they have on hand.

This community has had the infinite wisdom to look beyond and into the future to know that if we're going to succeed, it's going to be because we have an educated workforce. And that's why we taxed ourselves.

They should not be taxed again, and governments should not try to count them as development aid.

It's a critical issue for the state. If we start taxing views, and that view doesn't belong to the people being taxed for it, it will change the landscape of our state and erode our No. 1 industry, tourism,

It's a really bad idea. To me, the worst part is the fact we are going to be taxed to provide something we are mandated to do.

It's not a right, it's a privilege, and it's a nice benefit, but sometimes, we're in a society today that's taxed taxed taxed and we have to watch for everything we can do,

No king, no country, no treasury at all, was taxed for the voyage of the Spray, and she accomplished all that she undertook to do.

If not for the Williamson Act, a lot of the farms would be taxed to death, so for years we've worked quite long and hard just to maintain the Williamson funding. Sound land-use planning in counties helps some farms stay in existence in the face of urbanization.

If you die and leave property to your partner, you're taxed on it as if you left it to a stranger. You can give your partner only $11,000 as a gift, but if you're married, you can give your wife unlimited gifts.

In too many states, the poor and near-poor who are working to join the middle class are instead being taxed right back into poverty. For a family in poverty, a few hundred dollars is a lot of money.

If the Justice Department's case fails, all payments -- not just plastic payments -- but recurring payments, utilities, everything, will be taxed by a cartel known by two names: Visa and MasterCard.

By splitting up a large distribution and taking part in December and part in January, you may avoid moving to a higher tax bracket in either year, and keep more of your Social Security benefits from being taxed as well.

Alabama now has become the only state with an income tax threshold below one-half of the poverty line. Every other state that taxed the incomes of the poor in the early 1990s has reduced or eliminated this tax burden. Alabama stands alone in its failure to act.

The dual effect of high growth creating higher income that's taxed by government at all levels, combined with lessening demands placed on government that occurs during economic prosperity, is a worthy objective.

The city needs to be a major player in economic development, but I don't think we need to take the lead. We need to look to the professionals on that. Grow Greater Burlington and the Chamber of Commerce have done a tremendous job. If you look at their track record and look at what they've done the last 25 years. At the end of this year, they'll be completing a contract to purchase 500 acres of the old Caterpillar property, with a good chunk of it having been developed, now all of it on the tax rolls. Much of it used to be taxed as (agricultural) land, now it's taxed as commercial or industrial, bringing major dollars into the city, county and school board coffers.

The change in the operating levy has not kept pace with the change in assessed value. Land value in the county has been increasing at a slightly greater rate than the levy has. The county board has not taken advantage of all that it could have. It has taxed for what it believes is needed to provide services, not what has been available to it.

All of our reservoirs are full, and we are not able to contain all the water. So the river system, and the levee system, is being taxed beyond its designed capacity.

The legislation we're most eager to have happen is the extension of this tax benefit. But if it does go back to being taxed at child's level, it's not exactly the end of the world.

We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.

I did not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.