“Taxes will eventually become a voluntary process, with the possible exception of real estate - the one physical thing that does not move easily and has computable value. The US has a jump-start on the practice, in that 65 percent of local school funds come from real estate taxes - a practice Europeans consider odd and ill advised. But wait until that's all there is left to tax, when the rest of the things we buy and sell come from everywhere, anywhere, and nowhere.” DoeRealMovingValuesLeftWaitingProcessBusinessTaxesSellsFinanceExceptionEstatesPhysical Things Author:Nicholas Negroponte
“There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains) and Bush the Elder.” LongWarJobsAmericaLeftTermTaxesOfficePercentGainsRateLong TermEldersCapital Gains Author:Andrew Tobias
“Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge bag of good stuff for the Pentagon. But pretty quickly conservatives discovered that deficits, when done correctly, did something really cool: deficits defunded the Left.” FirstsDoneLeftStuffSidesCuttingHugeTaxesAccidentsCombinationBagsDeficitReally CoolTax CutsPentagonDeluded Author:Thomas Frank
“Sending money to Washington to have it administered and sent back is like getting a blood transfusion from your right arm to your left arm with a leaky valve.” LeftBloodArmsTaxesValveBlood Transfusion Author:Ernest Hollings
“The left's obsession with corporations as a spawn of evil is pathological paranoia. A corporation is just one form of organizing a private business enterprise for purposes of limiting personal liability, issuing stock, filing financial reports and paying taxes. Other forms include partnerships and sole proprietorships. Are they less evil? You buy your groceries from corporations, your cars, newspapers, cellphones, clothing and exercise equipment. Your parents and children work for corporations. Are they evil?” ChildrenFormPurposeEvilLeftParentCarExerciseTaxesFinancialNewspapersObsessionCorporationsJust OneEnterpriseReportsClothingsSolePartnershipEquipmentGroceriesParanoiaLiabilityChildren And ParentsSpawnFilingCellphonePaying Taxes Author:Mike Rosen
“They [NPR] are, of course, Nazis. They have a kind of Nazi attitude. They are the left wing of Nazism. These guys don't want any other point of view. They don't even feel guilty using tax dollars to spout their propaganda. They are basically Air America with government funding to keep them alive.” WantFeelsKindGovernmentAmericaGuyCoursesLeftViewsAttitudeAliveAirTaxesDollarsWingsPoint Of ViewGuiltyPropagandaNaziFundingNazismLeft WingTax DollarsNprGovernment FundingAir America Author:Roger Ailes
“The president wants more tax money in Washington. I want more money left in the communities, particularly poor communities, particularly communities that have high unemployment.” WantLeftPresidentCommunityPoorTaxesMore MoneyUnemployment Author:Rand Paul
“While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform - primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid.” NeedsSeemsLeftProtectTaxesProgramFocusedSpendingReformPreservesObsessedMore MoneyRestraintEntitlementMedicareOverlookedMedicaid Author:Fred Upton
“There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual; between the State which demands and the individual who attempts to evade such demands. Because the individual, left to himself, unless he be a saint or hero, always refuses to pay taxes, obey laws, or go to war.” WarStatesLawIndividualLeftPayStruggleHeroDemandTaxesSilentSaintRefuse Author:Benito Mussolini
“I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone. But I've also gone to Chicago. I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson, I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder...” WantYearsKindDifferentLeftHoursPartyHalfGoneFiveCuttingRepublicanTenTaxesBiggerBudgetsFive YearsChicagoSenateDifferent KindsBalancedDetroitLeft AloneTax CutsHalf HoursBaltimoreFergusonBalanced BudgetBigger Better Author:Rand Paul