(14 quotes found)
“I think the more rational explanation is that the excision of a five-to-six-foot leech from the surface of a human body means that that body is going to have more of its own blood in its own veins. Unless the leech finds another body, it is going to go hungry.”
Dave Sim
“He has to be seen to be doing something and I think removing the GST on fuel excise, which is a tax on a tax, is a tangible way to show the Government cares.”
David Cumming
“European ministers again agree that it's not a question of lowering prices by adjusting excise duties but probably of helping poorer families with compensation measures,”
Domenico Siniscalco
“Last November, we thought that 2004 was going to be the peak year for real estate excise tax, ... We were forecasting that the market would slow down in '05 and then more in '06. What we've seen so far is that 2005 has been, every single month, substantially stronger than in 2004.”
Dwight Dively
“They could knock the GST off of the excise tax. They could knock the GST off of gas above a certain price level. These are the things we propose.”
Stephen Harper
“We found that many large introns are removed by multiple recursive splicing steps, ... These steps involve the sequential excision of smaller subfragments. Our work also indicates that most recursive splicing events leave no clues in the final mRNA. This is why they have not been detected before now.”
Javier Lopez
“Our organization is not in support of this. This new excise tax will become one more factor in the housing costs in the San Juan Islands. And the people who will be hurt the most are those people who are trying to get their first house. It raises the bar for everyone.”
John Evans
“for a one-year suspension of the 4.3 cents-per-gallon excise tax on aviation fuel as the House [of Representatives] considers ways to facilitate recovery and mitigate the economic impact of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita.”
John Linder
“If the goal of an impact fee or excise tax is to curb growth, it's not working in Harford County.”
Nancy Jacobs
