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“As to the Income Tax, my opinion is that the needful revenue would be fairly and most fairly raised if paid by property, and by individuals in proportion to their property. A Property Tax should be an assessment upon all land and buildings, and canals and railroads, but not on property such as machinery, stock in trade, etc. The aristocracy have squeezed all they can out of the mass of the consumers, and now they lay their daring hands on those not wholly impoverished.”

“To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise. The web model is just so much more complicated, and involves this third party of advertisers, and all these other sources of revenue that are sort of provisional, but haven't been proven yet.”

Simple Party Pay Support Havens Source Reader Models Thirds Dollars Complicated Enterprise Print Proven Revenue Business Models Advertisers Third Parties

Author:Dave Eggers

“I don't have many expenses as a college student (mostly food) so I'm able to put advertising revenue right back into the production of new videos.”

Able Students College Productions Video Advertising Expenses Revenue College Students

Author:Marques Brownlee

“A theatrical on a tight budget really only becomes about generating critical reviews for you and your film, not revenue.”

Film Critical Budgets Reviews Revenue Theatrical

Author:Aurora Guerrero

“Here's a brave old reality, taxes don't go away; raising them never generates revenue, never ever ever.”

Reality Taxes Brave Going Away Revenue

Author:Neil Cavuto

“If you don't try to generate more revenues through tax reform, if you don't ask, you know, the most fortunate Americans to bear a slightly larger burden of the privilege of being an American, then you have to - the only way to achieve fiscal sustainability is through unacceptably deep cuts in benefits for middle class seniors, or unacceptably deep cuts in national security.”

“When a thing is bought not for its use but for its costliness, cheapness is no recommendation. As Sismondi remarks, the consequence of cheapening articles of vanity, is not that less is expended on such things, but that the buyers substitute for the cheapened article some other which is more costly, or a more elaborate quality of the same thing; and as the inferior quality answered the purpose of vanity equally well when it was equally expensive, a tax on the article is really paid by nobody: it is a creation of public revenue by which nobody loses.”

Source: Principles of Political Economy, with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy

“In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear.”

Looks Order Challenges Deals Pay Rich Clear Cost Demand Raises Medical Revenue

Author:Bill Gates

“A 2011 report produced by Forrester Research estimated that the revenue generated through the sales of smartphone and tablet applications will reach $38 billion annually by 2015. Think about that: An industry that did not exist in 2006 will be generating $38 billion in revenues within a decade. . . .”

Thinking Industry Research Decades Billions Reports Application Revenue Tablets Smartphones

Book:That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back

Source: That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back

“I think, and there's a pretty strong economic consensus on this, that at that juncture you should spend more, even though it may sound illogical to some people when the revenues are down, but spend more to juice things up and then do the cuts later once you're back, your economy is back in gear and running.”

People Thinking Should May Running Strong Sound Economy Cutting Economic Revenue Consensus Juice Gears Illogical Juncture

Author:Thomas B. Edsall

“There are some things that could hold it together, notably oil revenues. But at the moment, the much vaunted surge has had a measure of success primarily, to my mind, because Sunni and Shia Iraqis hate and fear each other more these days than they hate and fear the Americans.”

Mind Moments Together Hate Oil These Days Revenue Measure Of Success Shia Hate And Fear

Author:Patrick Cockburn

“More than 80% of our revenue comes from people viewing ads on mobile devices. Inside Twitter, we talk and think mobile first.”

People Thinking Firsts Devices Ads Revenue Mobile

Author:Shailesh Rao

“The man of wealth [should] consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer to produce the most beneficial results for the community - the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than that they would or could do for themselves.”

Men Should Community Wealth Ability Results Produce He Man Becoming Mere Superiors Agents Fund Revenue Beneficial Brethren Surplus Trustees Trust Funds Wisdom Experience

Author:Andrew Carnegie

“Everything I did actually helped to build the revenue, shall we say, of experience, which enabled me to play a variety of roles as I got older.”

Play Roles Variety Revenue

Author:Angela Lansbury

“You have to strike the deals, and they have an interest in them. With a revenue share model where you're already splitting with the studios, you have to do something with Fandango and so on.”

Interest Deals Share Models Studios Strikes Revenue Splitting

Author:Gerry Lopez

“Miserable is the man who loves a woman and takes her for his wife, pouring at her feet the sweat of his skin and the blood of his body and the life of his heart, and placing her in the hands of the fruit of his toil and the revenue of his diligence; for when he slowly wakes up, he finds that the heart that he endeavored to buy is given away freely and in sincerity to another man for the enjoyment of its hidden secrets and deepest love.”

Men Heart Body Hands Given Secret Wife Blood Feet He Man Skins Wake Up Fruit Miserable Enjoyment Sincerity Sweat Toil Revenue Another Man Diligence Pouring Hidden Secrets Deepest Love

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Obviously generating revenue is what this is all about anymore, which is sad, but again, you have to find ways to make it work. But, yeah, that's certainly intriguing.”

Way Yeah Revenue Intriguing

Author:Joe Torre

“Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.”

Comfort Paid Add Luxury Articles Consumption Revenue

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“What we have in the Bush team is a faith-based administration. It launched a faith-based war in Iraq, on the basis of faith-based intelligence, with a faith-based plan for Iraqi reconstruction, supported by faith-based tax cuts to generate faith-based revenues.”

War Cutting Plans Team Taxes Bases Iraq Administration Revenue Reconstruction Tax Cuts Faith Based

Author:Thomas Friedman

“Revenue and wealth do not bring disgrace.”

Wealth Revenue Disgrace

Author:Bruno Kreisky

“No one would look just at a firm's revenues to assess how well it was doing. Far more relevant is the balance sheet, which shows assets and liability. That is also true for a country.”

Wells Looks Country Shows Balance Firm Assets Relevant Sheets Revenue Liability Balance Sheets Assets And Liabilities

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“Government, not the oil industry, is the biggest 'profiteer' from oil. And it uses the tax revenue to expand its own authority at the expense of the individual, as it does with an endless number of other industries - including electric power, coal, lumber, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, aircraft, and agriculture. The Statist's intrusion to the free market is boundless.”

Source: Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

“The masses, in their capacity as consumers, ultimately determine everybody's revenues and wealth.”

Wealth Mass Capacity Determine Consumers Revenue

Book:The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

“Throughout history governments have been chronically short of revenue. The reason should be clear: unlike you and me, governments do not produce useful goods and services that they can sell on the market; governments, rather than producing and selling services, live parasitically off the market and off society.”

Should Has Beens Reason Government Clear Produce Like You Sells Selling Goods Revenue And Off Goods And Services

Author:Murray Rothbard

“Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.”

Persons Government Institutions Taxation Revenue Coercion

Author:Murray Rothbard

“Ronald Reagan cut taxes to raise the deficit to stop liberals in future years from increasing spending. Obama will raise spending to raise the deficit to stop conservatives in future years from cutting taxes. As he funds every liberal dream - from alternative energy production to infrastructure renovation to more federal revenue sharing - he will force a massive expansion in the size of government for a decade to come.”

“ACORN, you may recall, is the left-wing activist group with longtime ties to community organizer-turned-President Barack Obama. The nonprofit, which now takes in 40 percent of its revenues from American taxpayers after four decades on the public teat, has a history of engaging in voter fraud, corporate shakedowns, partisan bullying and pro-illegal immigration lobbying. The Democrats' stimulus proposals could make the group - and its lesser known but even more radical ideological allies - eligible for upward of $5 billion in new public cash.”

“To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish vice and idleness from his dominions, to secure the traveller and merchant, to restrain the depredations of the soldier, to cherish the labors of the husbandman, to encourage industry and learning, and, by an equal and moderate assessment, to increase the revenue, without increasing the taxes, are indeed the duties of a prince . . .”

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

“The rates of taxation climb and the levels of capital decline, until the only remaining wealth beyond the reach of the regime is the very protein of human flesh, and that too is finally taxed, bound, and gagged, and brought to the colossal temple of the state - a final sacrifice of carnal revenue to feed the declining elite.”

Humans States Wealth Levels Sacrifice Finals Rate Bounds Flesh Climbs Temples Regimes Elites Decline Taxation Revenue Protein Colossal

Book:Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century

Source: Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century

“Socialist countries throughout the world love to lower retirement ages to make people prematurely dependent on the government. But we should move in the opposite direction. In the long run, indexing retirement to life expectancy will yield enormous revenues to the system, far more than a one-shot increase in the age in the current legislative cycle.”

“High tax rates that people don't actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they do pay.”

People Government Pay Taxes Rate Revenue High Taxes

Author:Thomas Sowell

“If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a few cases women's basketball, if every one of them had a monitor that reported directly to the university president and no 'student-athlete' ever gets into this college or university who could not plausibly be admitted if we did not have a football or basketball team, end of problem. It won't happen because it's like unilaterally disarming. You know your opponent won't do it and then you'll get crushed in every game, but it's a simple thing.”

“In public administration there is no connection between revenue and expenditure.”

Connections Administration Revenue Expenditures

Book:Bureaucracy: The Economist

Source: Bureaucracy: The Economist

“The purpose for a tax system is to collect needed revenue at the least cost to the people.”

People Purpose Needed Cost Taxes Revenue Tax System

Author:Edward C. Prescott

“The goal of cable news executives is not to make me an informed citizen of Earth. Their mission is to tickle the dark reptilian depths of my brain and hook me so they can then barter with my soul for advertising revenue.”

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Author:Guy P. Harrison

“Then something fails and they're all out again, but DVD revenue is disappearing, you know, it's not disappearing but it's going off a cliff and what that's done is it's polarized the industry in a way that I've never seen before where studios are making less, they're bifurcating their choices where they're either going very, very big or they're just picking up a few rights on an acquisition basis or making really small things.”

Knows Way Done Bigs Choices Rights Failing Industry Bases Studios Disappear Revenue Small Things Cliffs Acquisition Dvds

Author:Eric Fellner

“Now there's always exceptions to that and the reason is if the film doesn't really work, whereas before you could rely on a decent amount of DVD sales to prop up the revenue to ensure that you got out in a decent manner, now if the film doesn't work, the film doesn't work and there's none of that DVD revenue to fall back on and you can lose a huge, huge sum of money on a big budget movie.”

Ifs Reason Bigs Film Fall Loses Huge Amount Budgets Rely Decent Exception Revenue Props Fall Back Dvds

Author:Eric Fellner

“Democrats have always wanted to grow government with revenues from our society's producers. They aren't sincere about reducing the deficit, because they will not abandon their addiction to spending other people's money.”

People Government Wanted Grows Democrat Addiction Spending Producers Our Society Abandon Sincere Revenue Deficit Reducing Spending Other People's Money

Author:David Limbaugh

“Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.”

Doe Bits Fairs Revenue Skype

Author:Bill Gates

“We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.”

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Author:Eliot Spitzer

“Several states are now looking into the possibility of taxing marijuana as a source of revenue. That is so typical of the government, isn't it? Trying to squeeze blood from a stoner.”

Trying States Government Blood Possibility Source Marijuana Typical Revenue Stoners

Author:Jay Leno

“Saudia Arabia takes in half a trillion dollars every year in oil revenue, and the country has a population smaller than New York state, but when your system of government is an eleventh century monarchy, someone's going to end up poor, and it's not gonna be the guy whose first name is King.”

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Author:Craig Ferguson

“We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax.”

Wealth Taxes Sufficient Justify Taxation Revenue

Author:Dick Spring

“If you can't figure out how to make money on three billion in revenue, when exactly will the profit magic be found? Ten billion? Fifty billion?”

Ifs Three Found Magic Figures Ten Profit Billions Making Money Fifty Revenue

Author:David Heinemeier Hansson

“Finance is the art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager”

Art Resources Advantage Finance Managers Revenue Pronunciation

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“When I hear the president of the United States in a great little rhetorical flourish talk about the leavening hand of the government, everybody knows that leavening hand is attached to the long arm of the Internal Revenue Service. And no one mistakes the Internal Revenue Service with something called liberty.”

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Author:Sean Hannity

“Google AdWords help with targeting people. Social media makes it easy to find people. A lot of people write blogs as a hobby. Others do it to make money. Instead of advertising on a blog, do a revenue share where you give them a 10-percent share for the business you receive.”

People Giving Writing Helping Social Easy Share Media Percent Social Media Advertising Making Money Google Hobbies Revenue Blogs

Author:Cameron Johnson

“I think we need to simplify our tax code, but not as a way of generating revenue, as a way of making our tax code more growth- friendly.”

Thinking Way Needs Growth Taxes Code Friendly Revenue Simplify

Author:Marco Rubio

“Debt is not caused by spending, it is caused by buying things that you don't pay for. Or, it's caused by cutting revenues that you don't offset ... by cuts in spending.”

Pay Cutting Debt Spending Buying Revenue Buying Things

Author:Steny Hoyer

“I'll give you a simple formula for straightening out the problems of the United States. First, you tax the churches. You take the tax off of capital gains and the tax off of savings. You decriminalize all and tax them same way as you do alcohol. You decriminalize . You make gambling legal. That will put the budget back on the road to recovery, and you'll have plenty of tax revenue coming in for all of your social programs, and to run the army.”