Famous Quotes & Sayings

I believe that if we are asking the citizens of Garland to pay more in taxes for additional police officers ... we must utilize the resources that we currently have to the maximum extent possible,

Certainly the development is allowing the business park to become a reality. Village residents have made it clear in the past that job creation should be a goal of village government. So we feel this is an opportunity to pursue that and at the same time improve the value of the village of Biron, which will allow for lower taxes in the future.

Mo Ibrahim

Business is global. Countries need to react to that; taxes need to be paid where profit arises.

But even if we win today, it's only one step. Immigrants pay a lot in taxes and don't get a lot back.

Basically, taxpayers would pay $2.4 billion in higher taxes to get four percent more of our kids into preschool. That just doesn't seem like a very good bang for the buck. Rather than focus resources on the state's most pressing needs or helping parents of low-income families who need the most help sending their kids to preschool, this flawed measure creates a subsidy for rich and middle-income families that already send their kids to preschool.

Because of that, I think property taxes address the sharing of this cost better than a rate increase does.

Basically 'duty-free' means a shop has promised that they will not compete with shops outside the airport, i.e. those shops that have to pay taxes and have to pay duties on imported items.

Basically, all the forces that can enlarge the retired elderly population are in overdrive. The forces that would expand the younger (and working) population paying for Social Security and Medicare taxes are in reverse. The result is a kind of perfect demographic storm,

Because of the way this form used to work, it calculated the tax as if you had received the money over a five-year period. You would divide it into five equal parts and pay taxes on each of those parts which significantly reduced your tax bill.

I'm all for it. If I know my taxes are going toward something good, like the education of my children, I'll pay for it. We've got an excellent school system as it is, and once we get the buildings in shape, it'll only get better.

Ryan Stiles

I love B.C., but you know what taxes are like in Canada.

Sean Connery

I have a great respect for money. I know how hard it is to earn and keep, especially with our diabolical taxes in Britain. I never get over the fact that sometimes I see more money being paid for a meal than my father earned in a week.

John Williamson

I find it maddening that after making such great political hay out of high gas taxes in opposition, he's now just ready to shrug and do nothing about it.

I feel good we ... knocked on the doors and ran on a message of keeping taxes low and reducing spending in Washington.

I feel pretty good about what happened yesterday. People are fed up. They don?t want taxes to go up, but cutting teachers is like shooting yourself in the head and then bleeding to death. If they don?t do something soon, the board is going to see the privatization of schools undermining the system. Giving them input is one thing, but if they don?t use it - what?s the sense?

If both people make $300,000, they'll pay more than $18,000 in taxes by filing jointly. That's about the cost of the wedding.

John Breaux

If people in California want to pay extra taxes to have their trash picked up, people in Texas shouldn't have to subsidize it.

Growth is itself a spur. If you're a dentist, there are more teeth to fill. If you're an accountant, there are more taxes to examine.

Ronald Reagan

History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20% of the people's income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government. . . . When it reaches 25%, there comes an increase in lawlessness.

The owners of this library are the taxpayers who put up the money to get it built. I am disappointed for the children -- that they don't have their library.

Under deregulation, it becomes much easier for these utility companies to claim that this is what our estimated taxes are and we need to recoup these costs. And then they engage in all kinds of tax liability schemes that wind up reducing what they actually owe.

People have to come forward, they have to pay a big fine and application fees, they have to go through background checks, pay all of the back taxes that are owed if they were working off the books and prove they've been learning English. I don't think that when you have to do all that, you can consider that an amnesty.

State and local taxes can add as much as 20 percent onto your basic rate.

Spending is rising and the deficit is rising, the question is will they have to raise taxes further?

Someone might find low taxes agreeable, but not the way tax revenues are spent, such as on education.

Howard Dean

My view is if you've lived here for a significant period of time -- whether you're undocumented or documented -- and you have contributed to your community, you have never been arrested or gone to jail or any of that stuff, and you've paid your taxes and worked hard, that you ought to have a path to earn legalization of citizenship and so forth.

Jon Corzine

(Local governments) still have to pay for those services. Gas prices still go up, teachers' salaries still go up, pensions still go up, ... You can have the growth in the underlying value of property taxes exploding even though there is this so-called 30 percent reduction.

Local government represents the cornerstone of the United States, and we fully support the critical role that localities play in protecting consumer and citizen rights. However, with 78 car rental excise taxes in 37 states, and 45 more such taxes pending or under discussion, we must speak out on behalf of our customers. These arbitrary taxes unfairly single out our customers and potentially interfere with interstate commerce by hindering free trade in the nationwide car rental industry.

Mark Warner has a history of flip-flopping on taxes. Despite a campaign promise not to raise taxes, while governor of Virginia he supported raising billions of dollars in taxes time and time again.

Steve Schmidt

John Kerry has made up a false measurement to support his ongoing efforts to talk down the economy, ... John Kerry's support for higher taxes on small business, Social Security benefits and gasoline would bring misery to America's working families.

I think investors have become more serious about the impact of taxes because they were saddled with tax bills in 2000 -- but many funds performed poorly as the market crashed.

I think in terms of income for Thunder Ridge and taxes for the county, it would be good.

It came from Woodie Brown's home in Detroit. When she died, the family stopped paying taxes and the city of Detroit foreclosed on the property and held a municipal auction. And anybody was free to simply show up and wave their hand in the air.