At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.
We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes.
The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet.
Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive.
I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.
Tax can be structured in a way that actually encourages investment in infrastructure and encourages investment in Australia from overseas.
When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.
Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.
The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.
Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.
Big swings in the wholesale price of electricity are not unusual in the summer, when high demand taxes generators' ability to supply power.
He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer.
It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.
The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.
That is what the Slave Trade was all about. Not death from poxes and musketry and whippings and malnutrition and melancholy and suicide: death itself. For before the white men came to Guinea to strip-mine field hands. ... black people did not die ......
Stories start in all sorts of places. Where they begin often tells the reader of what to expect as they progress. Castles often lead to dragons, country estates to deeds of deepest love (or of hate), and ambiguously presented settings usually lead to...
Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.
Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.
I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.
Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
