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“Land taxes is the thing. They got so high that there is no chance to make anything. Not only land but all property tax. You see in the old days, why the only thing they knew how to tax was land, or a house. Well, that condition went along for quite awhile, so even today the whole country tries to run its revenue on taxes on land. They never ask if the land makes anything. "It's land ain't it? Well tax it then."”

Ifs Trying Wells Real Country Whole Running Today Asks House Chance Land Conditions Taxes Property Revenue Old Days Property Taxes

Author:Will Rogers

“Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.”

May States Order Citizens Property Secure Portions Revenue Tenure

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?”

“Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic deficit of inertia, as the unwanted result of inadequate revenues and a restricted economy; or a temporary deficit of transition, resulting from a tax cut designed to boost the economy, increase tax revenues, and achieve -- and I believe this can be done -- a budget surplus. The first type of deficit is a sign of waste and weakness; the second reflects an investment in the future.”

“A noted cancer specialist in Boston said he believed that if some simple and inexpensive replacement for Chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer were found tomorrow, all US medical schools would teeter on the verge of bankruptcy, so integral a part of their hospital revenues is oncology, the medical specialty of cancer treatment”

“The labour-power is a commodity , not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself.”

Long Hands Process Function Productions Repeats Labour Capitalist Commodity Revenue Labourers

Book:Capital

Source: Capital

“As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone .”

Way Hands Form Capitalist Revenue Variables

Book:Capital: a critique of political economy

Source: Capital: a critique of political economy

“So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression.”

Should Hands Community Ability Objects Equal Raises Burden Debt Oppression Suits Operations Proportion Expenses Taxation Revenue Adapted

Book:John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“Those who have once got an ascendancy, and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means for retaining their advantage.”

Mean Nations Office Resources Advantage Possessed Immense Revenue Retaining Ascendancy

Book:Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph

Source: Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph

“I don’t think there’s any company that has reached $1 billion in revenue as fast as Xiaomi. In every conceivable benchmark, it’s almost unprecedented in terms of its speed of growth.”

Thinking Growth Term Company Speed Billions Revenue Unprecedented

Author:Yuri Milner

“It was not for the sake of oil that the risky decision to cease this corrupt coexistence was made. But at least now the Iraqi people have a chance of controlling their own main resource, and it will be our task to ensure that the funding and revenue are transparent instead of opaque.”

People Made Chance Decision Resources Tasks Sake Oil Cease Revenue Transparent Funding Coexistence Opaque

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“The idea of defending, as integral parts of our Empire, countries 10,000 miles off, like Australia, which neither pay a shilling to our revenue... nor afford us any exclusive trade... is about as quixotic a specimen of national folly as was ever exhibited.”

Ideas Country Pay Trade Miles Folly Empires Australia Revenue Exclusive Quixotic

Author:Richard Cobden

“It’s hard to imagine the revenue from selling the prints will cover the cost of lost goodwill.”

Hard Lost Imagine Cost Selling Print Revenue Goodwill

Author:Stewart Butterfield

“I have to say that oil and gas revenues make up a large part of the Russian budget revenue. This is a serious component for us in addressing economic development, budget funding for our development programmes and, of course, and meeting of our social commitments to our citizens.”

Courses Social Economic Serious Development Citizens Commitment Meetings Oil Budgets Gas Components Revenue Funding Programmes Economic Development Oil And Gas

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Congress has always had a soft spot for "experts" who tell members what they want to hear, whether it's supply-side economists declaring that tax cuts increase revenue or climate-change skeptics insisting that global warming is a myth.”

Want Sides Cutting Taxes Members Increase Climate Climate Change Congress Myth Spots Experts Global Warming Economist Revenue Skeptic Tax Cuts Declaring Insisting

Author:Paul Krugman

“I have endeavoured to show that the ability to pay taxes depends, not on the gross money value of the mass of commodities, nor on the net money value of the revenue of capitalists and landlords, but on the money value of each man's revenue compared to the money value of the commodities which he usually consumes.”

Men Shows Values Ability Pay Depends Taxes Mass Capitalist Commodity Gross Revenue Landlord

Book:The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch

Source: The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch

“We don't have a tax revenue problem in Washington, we have a spending problem in Washington.”

Problem Taxes Spending Revenue

Author:Paul Ryan

“The occupation of the stock-jobber yields no new or useful product; consequently having no product of his own to give in exchange, he has no revenue to subsist upon, but what he contrives to make out of the unskilfulness or ill-fortune of gamesters like himself.”

Giving Products Fortune Ill Yield Occupation Revenue Make Out

Book:A treatise on political economy, or, the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth

Source: A treatise on political economy, or, the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth

“Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.”

Littles Moral Politician Spending Contemplation Pauses Addict Revenue Extraction

Author:David Malpass

“Retaining 'Monday Night Football' simply did not make smart financial sense for ABC. We could not reconcile the fees against the revenue. We love football at ABC. It's been a love affair for 36 years. It will go down in the history of sports television, being created on ABC and with this magnificent run. But at this point, given the success we're having with our entertainment product and the financials, we deemed that this was the proper move for us. We're not looking back .”

“Margins on other sales and revenues grew as a result of the growth in extended service plan revenues, which have no associated cost of sales, and the growth in our service margin, reflecting improved overhead expense absorption.”

Growth Results Plans Grew Cost Expenses Revenue Reflecting Margins Overhead Absorption

Author:Austin Ligon

“The Cisco announcement that their revenue might slow due to shortage of parts meant, therefore, Nortel was down because it's competing in the same market. I think that was the big negative.”

Thinking Bigs Might Negative Dues Competing Revenue Parting Shortage Announcements Cisco

Author:Kate Warne

“Revenue has increased in this way is in no small measure, I am convinced, due to our low tax policy which has helped to generate an economic expansion in the face of unfavourable circumstances.”

Way Faces Economic Policy Circumstances Taxes Lows Dues Convinced Expansion Revenue

Author:John James Cowperthwaite

“My own views on all matters of public revenue and public expenditure are conditioned by an acute appreciation of whose is the sacrifice that produces public revenue and to whom accrues the benefit of public spending.”

Matter My Own Views Sacrifice Produce Benefits Appreciation Spending Revenue Expenditures

Author:John James Cowperthwaite

“I hold that two principles are important; first that there should be a steady expansion of public services, not an irregular one related to revenue accruing in any particular year; the second that taxes should be constant over long periods (provided, that is, that they are neither burdensome nor inequitable).”

Should Years Firsts Long Two Important Principles Particular Periods Taxes Constant Related Steady Expansion Revenue Public Service

Author:John James Cowperthwaite

“Ron Paul would have demanded that entire departments be shuttered – not that the bums merely bring into balance what was stolen (taxes) with what is squandered (spending). Besides, what a balanced-budget requirement implies is that government has the constitutional right to spend as much as it takes in – that government is permitted to waste however much revenue it can extract from wealth producers.”

Government Wealth Balance Taxes Waste Spending Producers Budgets Balanced Requirements Stolen Revenue Balanced Budget

Author:Ilana Mercer

“It is absolutely outrageous that a spin doctor for Labor's NBN Co is being paid $450,000 per annum by Australian taxpayers to promote a company that generates no revenue, has no customers and provides no services to anybody”

Company Labor Doctors Paid Customers Revenue Taxpayers Australian Outrageous Spin Doctors

Author:Nick Minchin

“One-time revenue spikes that aren't repeatable won't help you achieve consistent year-after-year growth.”

Years Helping Growth Achieve Consistent One Time Revenue

Author:Aaron Ross

“Of course you want more revenue, but what good is it if it isn't predictable?”

Ifs Want Courses Revenue Predictable

Author:Aaron Ross

“The ear and the eye are the mind's receivers; but the tongue is only busy in expending the treasures received. It, therefore, the revenues of the mind be uttered as fast or faster than they are received, it must needs be bare, and can never lay up for purchase.”

Needs Mind Eye Ears Lays Busy Tongue Treasure Faster Revenue Receiver

Author:Joseph Hall

“The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.”

Persons Christian Jesus Church Poverty Imitation Revenue Founding Fathers Christian Christian Church Christianity From Founding Fathers

Author:Thomas Paine

“High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.”

Interest Class Focus Capitalism Rate Finance Revenue Interest Rate Parasites Columnists

Author:Linda McQuaig

“Even before 2007, this half of a small island was the richest football country on earth. In 2005-2006 the Premiership's total revenue was about £1.4bn, 40 per cent more than its nearest rival, Italy's Serie A. That was before take-off. Now foreign television channels are sending so much cash that the Premiership is expected to take in nearly £1.8bn this season. Even the team that finishes bottom of the table (Wigan might be a good bet) will get £26.8m from TV. That's more than all of Argentine or Belgian football put together.”

Country Might Earth Together Half Team Television Football Tvs Seasons Tables Bottom Expected Soccer Analysis Islands Cash Cents Revenue Rivals Belgians Wigan

Author:Simon Kuper

“Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as the poor, all that accrues from the revenues should be collected into a single fund and distributed in block grants to those in need, if possible in lump sums large enough for the acquisition of a small piece of land, but if not, enough to start a business, or work in agriculture. And if that cannot be done for all, the distribution might be by tribes or some other division each in turn.”

“I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06.”

Years Lasts Next Growth Results Company Economy Five Months Financial Five Years Revenue Most Amazing Predicting Pipeline Last Five Years Financial Results

Author:Steve Ballmer

“Zealous groups threaten to infringe civil liberties when they seek government support to impose their own religious views on nonadherents. This has taken many forms, including attempts to introduce organized prayer in public schools, to outlaw birth control and abortion, and to use public tax revenues to finance religious schools.”

“The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.”

Matter Government Moving Used Names Cases Issues Cutting Internet Taxes Increase Clothings Sheep Fairness Typical Revenue Unwilling Expenditures Tax Increases Ploy Wolves In Sheep's Clothing

Author:Bob Barr

“We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.”

Ifs Trying Powerful Millions Failing Events Charity Profit Experiments Upset Endeavor Curves Revenue Attorney Paramount Fundraising Learning Curve Fundraising For Charity

Author:Dan Pallotta

“As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity.”

Wells May Values Produce Lows Farmers Quantity Revenue Landlord

Book:The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch

Source: The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch

“Right now the problem in Thailand is we have high debt, but we don't know how to earn the new source of revenue back to Thailand. This is my job.”

Knows Problem Jobs Know How Source Right Now Debt Revenue Thailand

Author:Yingluck Shinawatra

“Economy is a great revenue. [Lat., Magnum vectigal est parsimonia.]”

Economy Revenue

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character.”

Men Country Character Culture Numbers Building Depends Citizens Enlightenment Prosperity Abundance Revenue Fortification

Author:Martin Luther

“Militarism consumes the strongest and most productive elements of each nation. Militarism swallows the largest part of the national revenue.”

Nations Elements Productive Strongest Revenue Militarism

Book:Anarchism on Trial: Speeches of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman Before the United States District Court in the City of New York, July, 1917

Source: Anarchism on Trial: Speeches of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman Before the United States District Court in the City of New York, July, 1917

“What usually works: Simple sells. When you have to get out an encyclopedia and an Excel sheet to show somebody how much they make on a stream that comes by way of ad revenue, it gets a little complicated.”

Way Littles Shows Simple Sells Complicated Streams Ads Sheets Revenue Encyclopedia

Author:Monte Lipman

“I'm a middle-bracket person with a middle-bracket spouse / And we live together gaily in a middle-bracket house. / We've a fair-to-middlin' family; we take the middle view; / So we're manna sent from heaven to internal revenue.”

Persons Together House Heaven Views Middle Fairs Internals Middle Class Spouse Revenue Brackets

Author:Phyllis McGinley

“will stifle economic growth, destroy jobs, reduce revenues, and increase the deficit.”

Jobs Growth Economic Increase Revenue Deficit Economic Growth

Author:Jim Ramstad

“Only the State legally obtains its revenue by coercion.”

States Revenue Coercion

Author:Murray Rothbard

“The government doesn't want us to have weapons and yet, they have weapons. I think the biggest weapon they have is the IRS - Internal Revenue Service. They can use taxes as a weapon, and the IRS code that you can't even figure it out.”

Thinking Want Use Government Figures Taxes Weapons Code Internals Revenue Want U Irs

Author:Glenn Beck

“A lot of people will say, "what's Facebook's business model?" I always find that a kind of funny question. Our business model is out there, which is: we monetize largely through advertising and a little bit through the gift revenue, the virtual gifts we have on our site. I think those continue to be the most promising avenues going forward.”

People Thinking Kind Littles Bits Little Bit Models Advertising Site Revenue Avenues Business Models Funny Question

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“The remaining revenue on the consumption of foreign luxuries to domestic comforts, being collected on our seaboard and frontiers only, and incorporated with the transactions of our mercantile citizens, it may be the pleasure and the pride of an American to ask, What farmer, what merchant, what laborer ever sees a tax gatherer of the United States?”

May States Asks Pleasure United United States Pride Citizens Comfort Taxes Luxury Farmers Consumption Revenue Frontiers Merchants Transactions Laborers

Author:Thomas Jefferson