“My message to David Cameron, as the head of our government, is to seriously think again about this Robin Hood tax, the tax to help the poor by taking a little bit from the rich.” ThinkingLittlesHelpingGovernmentBitsPoorRichTaxesLittle BitMessagesHoodRobinsCameronRobin HoodHelp The Poor Author:Keith O'Brien
“By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.” WayLittlesJobsTaxesSummerSickMy WayDrankBrooklynBookstoresStrands Author:Robert Quine
“I think it's a little unfair for people to say you're not paying your fair share of taxes. I'm paying what I'm supposed to pay. Change the law, and I'll pay what I'm supposed to pay.” PeopleThinkingLittlesLawPayShareTaxesFairsUnfairFair Share Author:David Rubenstein
“Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.” YearsLittlesSocialSecurityCitizensTaxesIncreaseIncomeFairnessSenatorsEarningSeniorSocial SecurityIncome TaxSenior Citizen Author:William Weld
“Nobody cares that Mitt Romney is rich. It’s Romney’s inability to understand the institutional advantage that he gains from the government’s tax code largesse that’s a little offensive to people. Especially considering Romney’s view on anyone else who looks to the government for things like, I don’t know, food and medicine.” PeopleKnowsLooksLittlesGovernmentCareViewsRichTaxesGainsAdvantageMedicineCodeConsideringOffensiveInabilityRomneyNobody CaresLargesse Author:Jon Stewart
“Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle.” MenLittlesPayHeardCitizensQuietTaxesCleanForgottenDebtCirclesVirtuousForgetfulness Book:The Forgotten Man and Other Essays Source: The Forgotten Man and Other Essays
“Here's another way of putting it. Roosevelt wants recovery to start at the bottom. In other words, by a system of high taxes, he wants business to help the little fellow to get started and get some work, and then pay business back by buying things when he's at work. Business says, 'Let everybody alone. Let business alone, and quit monkeying with us, and we'll get everything going for you, and if we prosper, naturally the worker will prosper.'” IfsWayWantLittlesHelpingPoliticsPayTaxesFellowsWorkersBottomQuittingRecoveryBuyingAnother WayBuying ThingsHigh Taxes Author:Will Rogers