Sales tax quotes

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◆ There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

- Robert A Heinlein100

◆ The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

- William Lyon MacKenzie99

◆ A lot of Americans think they got a tax cut, and they didn't because their local property tax went up, their excise tax went up, their sales tax went up, and their prices went up and everything else, because we failed to invest in some of these other things we ought to be doing. ... We are squeezing the middle class, we are losing the middle class, and the gap between the haves and the have-nots is growing wider and wider, not closing as it used to be.

- Senator John Kerry99

◆ We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.

- Ronald Reagan99

◆ I don't go tanning anymore because Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning. McCain would never put a 10 percent tax on tanning. Because he's pale and would probably want to be tan.

- Nicole Polizzi99

◆ More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

- Robert Orben99

◆ Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.

- Romano Prodi99

◆ Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

- Ramakrishna99

◆ Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.

- Art Buchwald99

◆ I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country.

- Dick Gregory99

◆ The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.

- James Dale Davidson99

◆ The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

- Ronald Reagan99

◆ Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.

- Ronald Reagan99

◆ The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

- Ronald Reagan99

◆ You don't pay taxes, they take taxes.

- Chris Rock99