“ It's income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and stab yourself in the aorta. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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“ Its going to be a squeeze, but we have got to put our men and women in uniform ahead of everything else. We've got to be treating our reservists fairly before we move on to other procurements. ”
- Mark Dayton- Copy
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“ Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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“ Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax. ”
- Thomas Robert Dewar- Copy
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“ You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart. ”
- David Rockefeller- Copy
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“ My budget is a solid, balanced plan that allows us to make real, sustainable progress and provides the revenue necessary to fund our priorities. ”
- Michael F. Easley- Copy
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“ I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside. ”
- Ken Dodd- Copy
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“ People do not understand what a great revenue economy is. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State. ”
- Gary Becker- Copy
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“ An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
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“ HEAD-MONEY, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax. In ancient times there lived a king Whose tax-collectors could not wring From all his subjects gold enough To make the royal way less rough. For pleasure's highway, like the dames Whose premises adjoin it, claims Perpetual repairing… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Corruption is an obstacle to progress and the antithesis of good governance. It is a stain on the integrity of a nation. It diminishes its moral fibre. Corruption hinders investment, slows growth, contributes to unemployment, leads to a reduction in living standards and reduces government revenues. ”
- Laisenia Quarase- Copy
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“ This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community — the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves. ”
- Andrew Carnegie- Copy
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“ The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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