Jeff Rich
Musician, Drummer
"We are all are equal, but some pay higher tax rates than others."
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Ronald Reagan
Politician, Actor
"No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income."
Lindsey Graham
Politician
"It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally."
Paul Ryan
Politician
"The tax code is 10 times the size of the Bible with none of the good news."
Richard Pryor
Comedian, Actor
"I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day."
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"You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes."
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"If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing."
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"A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong."
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"The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting."
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"You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime."
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"If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it."
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"When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations."
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"I believe that all taxes are bad."
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"The only certainties in life are death and taxes."
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"Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption."
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"Let`s lower our tax rates on our businesses so that we`re on par with the rest of the world so that we don`t keep losing our businesses."
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"The tax system is stacked against the average taxpayer."
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"We don't have any miraculous way of avoiding taxes at Wesco and Berkshire."
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"Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position."
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"Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once."
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"What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes."
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"[T]hese tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans are also the tax cuts that are least likely to promote growth."
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"Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer."
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"What we don't need is more spending, and what we don't need are taxes, and what we do need is a lot less of both."
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"No one is patriotic about taxes."
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