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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that’s a good discussion. Maybe that’s the way to help close the deficit.
Bill GatesI want to reform the tax code so that it’s simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 – the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.
Barack ObamaI can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
Barack ObamaThe income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
Will RogersNo one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama’s plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it’s their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.
Joe BidenWhen there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
PlatoThe hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert Einstein