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What I do is allow middle-income families to finally be able to save their money tax-free. No tax on interest dividends or capital gains for middle-income Americans.
Mitt Romney
Money
Finally
Able
Dividends
Allow
Families
American
Tax
Interest
Gains
Capital
Capital Gains
Save
Barack Obama is not Harry Truman, who dropped the A-bomb on Japan to stop World War II. Barack Obama is not John F. Kennedy, who lowered marginal tax rates to get economic growth and job creation. Barack Obama and the far left, they are a completely different ball of wax.
Monica Crowley
War
World
Job
Creation
Wax
Harry
Job Creation
Obama
John
John F. Kennedy
Rates
Economic
Economic Growth
Dropped
Ball
Truman
Left
Get
Stop
Tax
Different
Barack
Tax Rates
Barack Obama
Japan
Far
Lowered
Who
Growth
Kennedy
Marginal
World War
World War II
Tax incentives might spur hiring in the short run, but how lasting are those gains if the jobs expire with the tax credits and they come at the expense of investing in the new technologies of the future?
Myron Scholes
Future
Lasting
Those
Jobs
Run
Investing
New
Come
How
Hiring
Spur
New Technologies
Short
Expense
Tax
Expire
Gains
Might
Incentives
Credits
Technologies
I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Finance
You
First
Pay
Benefit
Say
Ministers
Give
Only
Small
Arguing
Beyond
Exempt
Limit
Been
Tax
Taxes
Should
Your
Successive
Businessman
Companies
Profits
There's 2 million Palestinians that govern themselves. They have their own parliament, their own government, their own elections, their own tax system. I don't want to govern the Palestinians; no one does. They already govern themselves.
Naftali Bennett
Government
Own
System
Parliament
No-One
Does
Govern
Tax
Want
Tax System
Themselves
Elections
Million
Palestinians
Anything to do with any new form of tax, like consumption tax in Japan, carbon tax in Australia, these are big issues that cannot be easily decided.
Najib Razak
Big
Easily
Consumption
New
Like
Issues
Australia
Any
Tax
Form
Anything
Decided
Cannot
Japan
Carbon
Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential safety nets and life belts and guardrails that are useless right up until the day they are priceless.
Nancy Gibbs
Life
Government
Day
Money
Sometimes
Safety
Other
Kinds
Nets
Priceless
Invisible
Until
Safety Nets
Does
Up
American
Goes
Essential
Tax
Where
Tax Money
Ask
Useless
Pays
Among
Right
Things
Belts
We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.
Narendra Modi
Made
Whatever
Framework
Clarity
Would
Structures
Both
Investors
Implementation
Like
Policy
Known
Continuity
Upfront
Stable
Tax
Formulation
Should
Incentives
Credibility
An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job.
Newt Gingrich
You
Will
Job
Energy
Living
Increase
Citizens
Rural
Cost
American
May
Senior
Senior Citizens
Tax
Bill
Use
Your
Electricity
In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.
Newt Gingrich
Increase
Recession
Jobs
Because
Any
Middle
Tax
Tax Increase
Justified
Should
Measure
Defeated
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
Corner
President
President Bush
Willing
Security
Investigate
He
Salaries
Subject
Salute
Tax
Cap
Social
Bush
Social Security
Raising
Currently, 94 out of 100 of us pay the Social Security tax all year round.
Nick Clooney
Year
Pay
Out
Security
All Year
Year-Round
Currently
Tax
Social
Us
Social Security
Round
I want to grow up to be Tom Keneally or David Malouf: still in the game, relevant, putting out quality work, and paying tax aged 78 and 80.
Nick Earls
Work
Game
Quality
Relevant
Out
David
Putting
Still
Up
Tax
Want
Aged
Paying
Tom
Grow
Grow Up
When you have a tax system in which most of the exemptions and the lowest rates benefit the richest, all in the name of job creation, all that happens is that the rich get richer.
Nick Hanauer
You
Job
Rich
Creation
Benefit
Job Creation
System
Rates
Name
Most
Get
Tax
Happens
Which
Tax System
Richer
Richest
Lowest
The total impact of the Tory/Liberal tax, welfare and public spending changes has hit the poorest 10% in society disproportionately hard - and women have been affected even more badly than men.
Nicola Sturgeon
Women
Welfare
Men
Society
Changes
Spending
Total
Impact
More
Badly
Affected
Been
Hit
Than
Tax
Public
Poorest
Hard
Even
Disproportionately
My early years as a political activist were dominated by the poll tax.
Nicola Sturgeon
Political
Early Years
Were
Years
Dominated
Poll
Tax
Activist
Early
People go tanning because they like to feel tan. You feel more sexy when you're tan and I don't understand why you would tax on that, because you're making yourself feel more happy about yourself.
Nicole Polizzi
You
Happy
Yourself
People
Would
Sexy
About
More
Feel
Like
Because
Understand
Making
Tan
Go
Tanning
Tax
Why
I have long argued that in the modern world, corporation tax has had its day as a major source of tax revenue.
Nigel Lawson
Day
World
Long
Corporation
Argued
Had
Major
Revenue
Source
Modern
Tax
Modern World
A flat-rate poll tax would be politically unsustainable; even with a rebate scheme, the package would have an unacceptable impact on certain types of household.
Nigel Lawson
Types
Unacceptable
Would
Would-Be
Impact
Scheme
Unsustainable
Household
Politically
Poll
Tax
Package
Certain
Even
We should be forced to give so many exemptions and concessions (inevitably to the benefit of high spending authorities in Inner London) that the flat-rate poll tax would rapidly become a surrogate income tax.
Nigel Lawson
Become
Benefit
Spending
High
Rapidly
Would
London
Give
Forced
Inevitably
Surrogate
Authorities
Poll
Tax
Should
Many
Income
Income Tax
Inner
God forbid that the United Kingdom should take a lead and introduce a sensible tax system of its own which would probably comprise a very low level of corporation tax - tax on corporate profits - and perhaps a low level of corporate sales tax, because sales are where they are, and sales in this country are sales here, which we can tax here.
Nigel Lawson
God
Country
Own
Corporate
Corporation
System
Introduce
Would
Kingdom
Take
Lead
Perhaps
Forbid
Because
Sales
Sales Tax
Very
Tax
Where
Sensible
Which
Tax System
Low
Should
United
United Kingdom
Level
Profits
Here
What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.
Olusegun Obasanjo
Government
Country
Admitted
About
Percent
Majority
Fairness
Accepted
Gets
Oil
Tax
Which
Producer
Paid
I was the original little guy. This country gave me an opportunity. I want our tax system to do the same for others facing those same circumstances.
Orrin Hatch
Me
Opportunity
Country
Gave
Others
Our
Those
Circumstances
System
Guy
Facing
Same
Tax
Want
Little
Tax System
Original
We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax.
Otto Schily
Points
Particularly
Common
Tax
What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Security reform passed, that he'll have tax reform passed, that he'll have conservative judges on the courts.
Pat Robertson
Conservative
Victory
Security
He
Judges
Passed
Courts
Heard
Reform
Tax
After
Tax Reform
Social
Bush
Social Security
Social Security Reform
Now
If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.
Pat Toomey
You
Big
Control
Increase
Spending
Get
Going
Tax
Tax Increase
Eventually
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