Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians very much wanted to push in the United States without success but in Iraq they do it.
People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.
I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.
Prince John: Any objections to the new tax, from our Saxon friends?
I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.
Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.
I 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.
Republicans are not going to play I-told-you-so, but it is pretty obvious that the tax reductions passed in 2003 helped Americans dig out of a recession and get back to work.
Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.
The best episodes of 'The West Wing' that dealt with policy and stuff, in my opinion, were the ones where they were in the middle of a crisis, and they were trying to figure out how to solve problems.
We need to increase access to health insurance through Health Savings Accounts and high deductible policies, so individuals and families can purchase the insurance that's best for them and meets their specific needs.
We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment.
But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right.
All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
