Top 1200 Inheritance Tax Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

A charity ball is like a dance except it's tax deductible.

These developments - a massive transfer of land by way of inheritance and purchase, an unprecedented rise in the profitability of land and increasing intermarriage between Celtic and English dynasties - helped to consolidate a new unitary ruling class in place of the more separate and specific landed establishments that had characterised England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the Tudor and Stuart eras.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many thousands of years, realized at last. If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in the hybrid-rather than be represented by plus or minus signs, and put several seasons into throwing doubt upon the concept of immutable hypothetical units of inheritance concocted to account for selected results.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

I'm a sporting professional; I don't have a great understanding of tax and legal matters.

Today, and I'm very strongly against tax increases.

Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.

How can we tax people for not buying a product from a website that doesn't work?

You're not getting this back you know. Consider it an asshole tax.

Tax abuse is a scourge on our global community, but especially for Africa.

We are for pension reform, jobs, the flat tax, and justice reforms.

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.

The most important things that any member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ever does in this world are: 1. To marry the right person, in the right place, by the right authority; and 2. To keep the covenant made in connection with the holy and perfect order of matrimony-thus assuring the obedient persons of an inheritance of exaltation in the celestial kingdom.

I'm against tax increases on anyone, period, end of debate.

We need to lower marginal tax rates and increase investment.

There's a lot to be said for expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit.

Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

Actors seem brave and unpredictable, but they're spontaneous as a tax return.

I don't think we should reduce the corporate tax rate.

I don't see traffic fines as a substitute for a commuter tax.

I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.

Death is the tax the soul has to pay for having a name and a form.

Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.

A tax is something people pay out of income.

We expect to adopt tax incentives for businesses that invest in the country.

Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for their ancestors incline them to swallow down all their opinions at once, without examining what truth or falsehood there is in them. Men take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

The blood of Abraham, God's father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and Christian, and too much of it has been spilled in grasping for the inheritance of the revered patriarch in the Middle East. The spilled blood in the Holy Land still cries out to God--an anguished cry for peace.

I do want the tax system to be efficient and be conducive to growth, which it is not.

If we will admit time into our thoughts at all, the mythologies, those vestiges of ancient poems, wrecks of poems, so to speak, the world's inheritance,... these are the materials and hints for a history of the rise and progress of the race; how, from the condition of ants, it arrived at the condition of men, and arts were gradually invented. Let a thousand surmises shed some light on this story.

Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

I was working on a flat tax proposal and accidentally proved there was no God.

Lord knows I'm all for lowering rates and simplifying the tax code.

I say just put a big fat tax on carbon.

No one imagines that a law professing to tax will be permitted to destroy.

When you're taxing bovine flatulence emissions, there's nothing left to tax.

I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.

If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.

Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.

Gas tax holiday is a classic Washington gimmick.

I very much believe in reforming the tax system.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on from the reassuring repetition of stale phrases to a new, difficult, but essential confrontation with reality. For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie-deliberate, contrived and dishonest-but the myth-persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Mythology distracts us everywhere.

If you buy something online, you're supposed to pay a use tax.

Michael Grimm never met a tax he didn't lie to evade.

If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.

I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.

Tax credits instead of a huge bureaucracy. This is the question for me.

... if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being perserved in the struggle for life; and from the strong principle of inheritance they will tend to produce offsping similarly characterized. This principle of preservation, I have called, for the sake of brevity, Natural Selection.

Baal-hamon, one of Baal's names, means "the lord of wealth or abundance." Chuck Pierce believes, and I agree, that this is the principality warring against the great transfer of wealth to the Church. You must war against this spirit to see your inheritance released. Claim Jeremiah 51:44 (Bel in this verse is Baal).

You can grow marijuana, so the government can't tax you and they don't like that, that's why they prohibit it.

There is regressivity built into the tax code by virtue of its complexity.

I'm nicer on tax day than I am when I'm on deadline.

Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.

I believe that I am a child of God, endowed with a divine birthright. I believe that there is something of divinity within me and within each of you. I believe that we have a godly inheritance and that it is our responsibility, our obligation, and our opportunity to cultivate and nurture the very best of these qualities within us.

I do think there is room at the very top for marginal tax changes.