“Money comes to Switzerland through three illegal sources: tax evasion in other developed countries, the blood money of dictators and other rulers in the Third World and organized crime.” WorldCountryThreeBloodCrimeSourceTaxesThirdsOrganizedIllegalRulersDictatorThird WorldSwitzerlandEvasionOrganized CrimeDeveloped CountryTax Evasion Author:Jean Ziegler
“Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.” StatesPrinciplesSourceTaxesIncomeRelyRevenueIncome TaxSales Tax Author:Bill Jenkins
“It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already produced; it dries up the source of riches, while it usually respects acquired property. Freedom, on the contrary, produces far more goods than it destroys; and the nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.” CertainIndividualNationsWealthProduceSourceTaxesResourcesIncreaseInstitutionsPropertyRichesContraryRuinsGoodsDespotismPreventingDepriving Author:Alexis de Tocqueville
“Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.” WholeGovernmentStrongSourceTaxesArmyCourtHeavyExecutivesBureaucracyIdenticalSource Of LifeExecutive PowerStrong Government Book:The thought of Karl Marx: an introduction Source: The thought of Karl Marx: an introduction
“I think, again, the overall intellectual structure of the speech is very much consistent with what Donald Trump has been saying on the campaign trail. He's against free trade. He's against immigration. But he has been in favor of tax reform, and he has been afraid of - in favor of developing American energy sources like through fracking or hydraulic fracturing.” ThinkingHas BeensEnergySourceTrumpTaxesSpeechIntellectualTradeStructureFavorsCampaignsImmigrationReformDevelopingConsistentTrailsFree TradeEnergy SourcesTax ReformFrackingHydraulic Fracturing Author:Avik Roy
“Energy is a sector of the economy that has been particularly resistant to innovation. This is precisely the problem. It is why we are still dependant on energy sources that are 100 to 150 years old while virtually every other sector of the economy has transformed itself. This is why we believe that the faith that many environmentalists still hold that carbon regulations and taxes will drive sufficient private sector investment into energy markets to create the kind of innovation we need is unfounded.” NeedsYearsBelieveKindHas BeensStillsProblemEnergyEconomySourceTaxesInnovationInvestmentSufficientTransformedRegulationCarbonPrivate SectorEnvironmentalistEnergy Sources Author:Ted Nordhaus
“It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.” MayStatesStrongCasesSourceTaxesPropertyLibraryUniversityAcademicComponentsFundingPublic LibraryTuitionProperty Taxes Author:Tom Peters
“Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade and shifting from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy sources.” EnergySimpleEconomicSourceTaxesBenefitsSolutionsTradeCleanFuelCarbonFossilsShiftingCapsFossil FuelRenewable EnergyEnergy SourcesImplementingBurning Fossil FuelsRenewable Energy Sources Author:David Suzuki