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My dad's from that generation like a lot of immigrants where he feels like if you come to this country, you pay this thing like the American dream tax: like you're going to endure some racism, and if it doesn't cost you your life, well hey, you lucked out. Pay it; there you go, Uncle Sam. I was born here, so I actually had the audacity of equality. Hasan Minhaj

Life, Racism, American Dream, Equality

The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat. Ben Shapiro

Failure, Job, Simple, City, Government

Lawyers have their duties as citizens, but they also have special duties as lawyers. Their obligations go far deeper than earning a living as specialists in corporation or tax law. They have a continuing responsibility to uphold the fundamental principles of justice from which the law cannot depart. Robert Kennedy

Responsibility, Justice, Law, Special

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. - Albert Einstein

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. Albert Einstein

Money, World, Understand, Hardest, Thing

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. Ronald Reagan

Government, Moving, Short, View, Economy

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. Winston Churchill

Man, Trying, Nation, Lift, Try, Up

I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies. William F. Buckley, Jr.

Connection, Everyone, Fair, Like, Income

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? Jesus Christ

Love, You, Reward, Same, Collectors, Who

Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America. Barack Obama

Plants, America, Start, You, Ship, Train

Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies that produce jobs and economic growth, and to assist millions of our fellow Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own. Nancy Pelosi

Growth, Priorities, Lost, Fault, Through

Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers. Ron Paul

Future, Simple, Create, Pure, Mean, Who

What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people. Nancy Pelosi

Children, Future, People, American, Down

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them. - Bill Vaughan

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them. Bill Vaughan

Funny, Love, People, Poor, Creating

People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship, and if that happened, then they wouldn't be prey to the employers who say, 'We want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.' Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Work, Opportunity, People, Citizenship

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will. Barack Obama

Wisdom, Democracy, You, Compromise, Long

It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all. Thomas Sowell

People, Wealth, Without, Way, Inflation

The tax on being different is massive. Vivienne Ming

Being Different, Different, Being

A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax. Nick Clooney

Saying, Security, Social Security, Cap

Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform. John Cornyn

America, Need, Why, Real, Pay, Half

The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting. Rob Portman

Bible, Interesting, Now, Code, Nine

Changing much-cherished bank secrecy laws is worth the effort. Corruption, tax evasion, and the capture of natural resource revenues undermine the rule of law, weaken the social fabric, erode citizens' trust in institutions, fuel conflict and insecurity, and hamper job creation. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Trust, Job, Effort, Conflict, Insecurity

And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done. Arthur Laffer

Money, Government, You, Free, Too Much

Our economy works really well without an income or a sales tax. Maggie Hassan

Without, Sales, Economy, Income, Well

Investor demand for distressed property has been healthy, as rents rise to levels that can cover investors' costs while they wait for properties to appreciate. Giving investors a small tax break should further juice up demand, supporting prices for distressed homes and the market in general. Mark Zandi

Giving, Appreciate, Rise, Small, Healthy

There are some Republicans who say that any time you raise new revenue, you have to have a tax cut to match it. I am not one of those Republicans. Jeff Flake

Time, I Am, You, Say, New, Match

Small businesses already struggle to compete with big businesses that enjoy the luxury of a tax code filled with corporate loopholes. Kevin McCarthy

Struggle, Enjoy, Luxury, Small, Big

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