“It's responsible for the sloppiness and imprecision of the War on Terror, for example. It's responsible for taking people's tax dollars and spending the country into debt on useless wars and pointless pork projects to buy votes. It's responsible for bailing out the banks instead of standing up for the people the banks cheated. It's responsible for plenty.” PeopleWarCountryExampleTaxesProjectsStandingVoteResponsibleDollarsTerrorDebtSpendingPlentyUselessPointlessCheatedWar On TerrorPorkTax DollarsBailing OutSloppiness Author:Timothy Hallinan
“All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?” IfsUseBigsPurposeHouseJusticeDecisionStreetsExampleWallCostTaxesPaperHumorousRainCourtPossessionNewspapersSupremeChiefsCorporationsRelatedWhat IfJournalSupreme CourtBurgersLandmarksBig CorporationsDepreciateWall Street JournalChief JusticeBusiness Related Author:Dave Barry
“Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true elsewhere, including the United States, but it's been pretty extreme in Greece.” WayHas BeensStatesUnitedPayUnited StatesExampleTaxesIncludingExtremesWealthyElsewhereGreece Author:Noam Chomsky
“We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for example, has found that coal miners in Appalachia costs the region five times more in premature deaths, including from cancer, than it provides to the region in jobs, taxes, and economic benefits. In California, the production and use of hazardous chemicals cost the state $2.6 billion in 2004 alone in lost wages and health-care expenses to treat workers and children with pollution-linked diseases.” ChildrenStatesUseCareJobsFoundLostWaterStudyFiveAirEconomicExampleCostTaxesDiseaseBenefitsTreatsEnvironmentalWorkersIncludingCancerProductionsBillionsHealth CareSubstanceCaliforniaExpensiveRegionsExpensesChemicalsPollutionWagesCoalLinkedPrematureMinersAppalachiaCoal MinersPremature Death Author:Sandra Steingraber
“We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had an impact on black populations - that has for example eradicated large numbers of jobs that black people traditionally have been able to count upon and created communities where the tax base is lost now as a result of corporations moving to the third world in order to discover cheap labor.” PeopleWorldLooksHas BeensWholeAbleJobsMovingOrderLostBlackCommunityResultsNumbersExampleTaxesCapitalismLaborThirdsImpactPopulationCorporationsBlack PeopleGlobalizationThird WorldLarge NumbersCheap Labor Author:Angela Davis
“Punishing enemies and rewarding friends - politics Chicago style - seems to be the unifying principle that helps explain the Obamacare waivers, the NLRB action against Boeing and IRS's gift tax assault on 501(c)(4) donors. They look like examples of crony capitalism, bailout favoritism and gangster government. One thing they don't look like is the rule of law.” LooksHelpingSeemsGovernmentActionLawEnemyPrinciplesOne ThingStyleExampleTaxesCapitalismChicagoAssaultRule Of LawObamacareGangstersIrsDonorsUnifyingBoeingBailoutsFavoritismCroniesCrony CapitalismWaiver Author:Michael Barone
“There is no - let me repeat - no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been successful with high taxes.” Has BeensLastsEconomySuccessfulCenturyExampleTaxesLet MeComplexesRepeatsQuartersHigh Taxes Author:Jonah Goldberg
“[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest crimes in the State's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax.” PersonsDoeStatesEnemyEconomicCrimeDangerExampleCitizensTaxesPropertySoldierIncomePursueContentmentCategoriesConspiracyRulersInvasionRegisterIncome TaxTreasonAssassinationSubversiveEvasionSubversionLexiconDesertion Author:Murray Rothbard
“By the way on economics, South Carolina is an example to the country of what we should be doing as Americans. This country has a vast manufacturing base. It is growing in manufacturing where America is shrinking and it's because they have reduced taxes and lower regulatory burdens and been pro-business.” WayShouldCountryAmericaGrowingExampleTaxesEconomicsSouthBurdenManufacturingCarolinaShrinkingSouth Carolina Author:Marco Rubio
“All the evidence here, for example, in Britain, is that migrants, particularly from the rest of Europe, who come here contribute far more in taxes.” ExampleTaxesEvidenceEuropeBritainMigrants Author:Tony Blair
“The Government in their own terms, for example, they banked the income for the backpackers' tax. But they had a process attached to the backpackers' tax of review that they wanted to go through. What the Government's saying now with this bill is any process, any detail, any reinvestment that Labor had as part of its package, we're meant to ignore all of that and it's only the cut part of it that we're meant to be committed to.” GovernmentWantedProcessTermCuttingExampleTaxesLaborBillsCommittedDetailsIncomeMeant To BeReviewsPackages Author:Tony Burke