Denmark is charging a fat food tax on cheese, meat, and oil. Here, we call that the Denny's Grand Slam breakfast.
It is not fair that people who are born in the UK to parents who are domiciled here, can later in life claim to be non-doms and live here, it is not fair that non-doms with residential property here in the UK can put it in an offshore company and avoid inheritance tax.
I think we should have a very, very heavy tax on handguns and on bullets.
I live in Portland now. It's beautiful from day one. The Food and the beer, and no sales tax. Get your iPad while you're here.
Christians today are forced to support, with their tax money, the establishment of another religious faith that stands opposed to everything they believe. The new state church has taken the form of the public school.
We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.
The federal government, state governments will not do without that tax revenue from tobacco no matter what. I've always thought it was one of the most contradictory setups that we have, because everything said publicly about the product is intended to besmirch it, impugn it, and do the same thing to the people that use it. And yet here's the government scoring, I mean, you want to talk about obscene profits, the government doesn't do a damn thing but stick its hand in. The government taxes tobacco at every stage. It taxes tobacco when the farmer's thinking about planting it.
Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is-I'm not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I'm the president.
The tax code rewards corporations for outsourcing jobs, and their profits overseas, instead of investing here in the United States.
No one imagines that a law professing to tax will be permitted to destroy.
The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose.
We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated.
A lottery is a tax on stupidity.
The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption.
Growth works. What we're doing in the administration to spur growth in terms of regulatory form work. And what we're working is to make sure that those tax cuts add to that. We do believe that sustained 3 percent economic growth is possible and that that is the way you can balance the budget long-term.
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
Women taking care of children. . . it makes sense to pay them for that work. . . they should be paid for it, but that requires tax payments. And the same is true about protection of the environment.
The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.
Grow jobs. Get this economy growing. Raise wages. Simplify the tax system, so it's easy to comply with.
A charity ball is like a dance except it's tax deductible.