“The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.” CertainTaxesBenefitsBurdenAlternativesMinimumTax Burden Author:Richard Neal
“My object, having a surplus to deal with, is to consider how I can deal with it to the greatest advantage to the consumer - how, without inflicting any injury on Canada, I can secure the most substantial benefit to this country, to the manufacturing, to the commercial, and to the agricultural interests. The real way in which we can benefit the working and manufacturing classes is, unquestionably, by removing the burden that presses on the springs of manufactures and commerce.” WayI CanRealCountryInterestDealsClassObjectsBenefitsSpringAdvantagePressesBurdenSecureConsumersInjuryCanadaCommerceManufacturingSurplus Author:Robert Peel
“We simply cannot continue to live with a [tax] system which has so many inequities. It must be changed in such a way that each of us pays a fair share of the burden. It has been said that one man's loophole is another man's livelihood. Even if this is true, it certainly is not fair, because the loophole-livelihood of those who are reaping undeserved benefits can be the economic noose of those who are paying more than they should.” IfsMenWayShouldHas BeensSaidPayShareEconomicChangedTaxesBenefitsFairsBurdenOne ManAnother ManLivelihoodNot FairLoopholesFair ShareTax SystemNooses Book:Speaking up Source: Speaking up
“Every president when he is elected has to live with the pluses and minuses his predecessor leaves, which includes benefits as well as burdens.” WellsPresidentBenefitsBurdenPredecessors Author:Donald Rumsfeld
“While the rich reap most of the benefits of technological development, the poor bear an unequal burden of dealing with the consequences of the resulting increased pollution. The poor continue to live in greatest proximity to the sources of pollution, the infrastructure and machinery of industry. They work in the most polluted and physically dangerous workplaces. And these same individuals, living and working closest to the sources of environmental catastrophe, are also the ones most lacking decent health care.” CareIndividualPoorRichDangerousSourceDevelopmentIndustryBearsBenefitsConsequenceEnvironmentalBurdenHealth CareDecentPollutionClosestLackingTechnologicalWorkplaceCatastropheInfrastructureMachineryReapProximityTechnological Development Author:James H. Cone
“Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.” SufferingEnjoyCommunityJusticeMovementBenefitsFairsEnvironmentalBurdenEnvironmental Justice Author:Van Jones
“If you don't try to generate more revenues through tax reform, if you don't ask, you know, the most fortunate Americans to bear a slightly larger burden of the privilege of being an American, then you have to - the only way to achieve fiscal sustainability is through unacceptably deep cuts in benefits for middle class seniors, or unacceptably deep cuts in national security.” IfsKnowsWayTryingAsksClassCuttingMiddleAchieveSecurityBearsTaxesBenefitsPrivilegeBurdenReformFortunateMiddle ClassSustainabilitySeniorNational SecurityRevenueTax Reform Author:Timothy Geithner
“You can think of the Health Impact Fund as a mechanism that would keep the benefits and burdens of pharmaceutical innovation for the affluent roughly as they are while massively reducing the burdens presently imposed upon the poor. This sounds like magic. But it really works because the current system is not Pareto efficient. It's a system that generates hundreds of billions of dollars in litigation costs and deadweight losses that HIF-registered medicines would sidestep. By avoiding these losses, the HIF reform can bring improvements all around - including for pharmaceutical innovators.” ThinkingSoundLossPoorMagicCostBenefitsInnovationImpactDollarsMedicineIncludingCurrentsBurdenBillionsImprovementReformFundMechanismEfficientAvoidingWeight LossReducingInnovatorsAffluentPharmaceutical Author:Thomas Pogge
“Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.” PeopleDecisionInformationSourceBenefitsBurdenAvailableOrganizedDecision MakingFormatInformation AgeOrderliness Author:William Pollard
“I love creating partnerships; I love not having to bear the entire burden of the creative storytelling, and when I have unions like with George Lucas and Peter Jackson, it's really great; not only do I benefit, but the project is better for it.” CreativeBearsBenefitsProjectsCreatingUnionsBurdenStorytellingPeterPartnershipReally Great Author:Steven Spielberg
“All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.” BenefitsBurdenStomach Author:Ellen G. White
“Keep in mind that part of growing up is dealing with difficult issues, and the benefits can be great if you have the courage to ask for help. Human beings are not designed to go through life alone. No one has to bear the burden of tough times all by themselves.” IfsInspirationalMindHumansHelpingAsksDifficultHuman BeingsFamilyGrowing UpIssuesGrowingBearsBenefitsToughBurdenTough Times Book:Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Tough Stuff: Stories of Tough Times and Lessons Learned Source: Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Tough Stuff: Stories of Tough Times and Lessons Learned
“Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure” MenPleasureReadyGratitudeBenefitsBurdenRevengeInjuryCriminal MindUsed In Criminal Minds Author:Tacitus
“My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones.” UseToo MuchBenefitsBurdenFragileLoved Ones Author:Mary Balogh
“The Union next to our liberties the most dear. May we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of the States, and distributing equally the benefits and burdens of the Union.” MayStatesRememberNextLibertyRightsBenefitsUnionsDearBurden Author:John C. Calhoun
“All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public services they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.” CountryStatesUseMightJobsNumbersRecordsCitizensBenefitsMovedBurdenCriminalsImmigrationOur CountrySecureAliensAdministrationWelfareBordersImmigrantsIllegalAffectedEnteringTaxpayersDisturbedPublic ServiceHiringLarge NumbersIllegal Aliens Author:William J. Clinton