No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.
1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
Fewer people working means permanently lower tax revenues.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.
If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system.
There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!
There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes.
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
...they say a reformed roue makes the best husband, but, Oh! Didn't they tell you? Monsters can't be reformed...
Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now.
Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform.
There is an analogy between conservation and education reform. The coalition around education reform is the biggest bipartisan thing going in this state right now. We need to recapture the big bipartisan spirit for conservation.
Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with those who have an honest patriotic desire for more progress and reform.
The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN.
Many still believe that conducting political and economic reforms at the same time is not an Asian way. But this is a fairy-tale. We broke that old stereotype by reforming our political, economic and social systems concurrently since 1990.
I have to be grateful to our society here in China, grateful to the economic reforms for letting me get rich, and grateful for the efforts of my staff. If there had been no reforms, I would have been a farmer.
The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.
the larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the total tax burden grows beyond a bearable size, the problem of devising taxes that will not discourage and disrupt...
