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Taxes Quotes
Old rates, new complaints, same argument.
This page pairs a claim about historically high past tax rates with present-day frustration over being taxed repeatedly on the same money, alongside a simple statement of consistent compliance. It captures taxation as an ongoing argument rather than a settled question. See related money themes in Finance quotes.
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In 2008, Goldman Sachs only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit of $2.3 billion and received an almost $800 billion from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department.
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Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don't pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.
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Contrary to the myth that Mr. Bush cut taxes only for the wealthy, the 2001 tax cut reduced taxes for every income-tax payer in the country.
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A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.
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