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“Fewer people working means permanently lower tax revenues.”

People Mean Taxes Fewer Revenue

Author:Christina Romer

“When you talk about a 'broad-based business tax,' that's a pretty broad term. I don't know what that means. But it's not something I would be supportive of.”

Knows Mean Would Be Term Taxes Broads Supportive

Author:Brian Sandoval

“And most of all, it means continually drawing connections among these seemingly disparate struggles—asserting, for instance, that the logic that would cut pensions, food stamps, and health care before increasing taxes on the rich is the same logic that would blast the bedrock of the earth to get the last vapors of gas and the last drops of oil before making the shift to renewable energy.”

Source: This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate

“We have to adjust the age retirement for younger people. People of my income level are going to have to have their benefits means-tested. Democrats are going to want a simpler tax code.”

People Want Mean Age Levels Taxes Benefits Democrat Income Code Retirement Tested

Author:Lindsey Graham

“I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.”

Men Mean Taxes Paper Papers License Nuisance

Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding

Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding

“When people live in the full light of an open society, paying their taxes, abiding by the rules, that makes not only our country safer and more secure because people are not relegated to living in the shadows and not creating underground economies, it also is better for wages because the fact that people are working on the books in the open means that there's greater demand for labor and you don't have this submarket.”

People Mean Book Country Facts Light Economy Greater Demand Taxes Creating Shadow Labor Our Country Secure Wages Abiding

Author:Martin O'Malley

“I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms, by no means excluding females.”

Mean Government Pay Arms Bears Taxes Female Privilege Burden Admitting Suffrage

Book:The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

“Economists are almost unanimous in conceding that the land tax has no adverse side effects. ...Landowners ought to look at both sides of the coin. Applying a tax to land values also means removing other taxes. This would so improve the efficiency of a city that land values would go up more than the increase in taxes on land.”

Looks Mean Values Sides Cities Land Effects Ought Taxes Increase Efficiency Both Sides Economist Coins Adverse Side Effects

Author:William Vickrey