“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
“Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection."” FirstsCountryAsksInterestCommunityViewsClassRightsProduceDutyProtectTaxesAdvantageBurdenProtectionSoilLabourAllowingImportsPlunderSecond Place Author:Benjamin Disraeli
“We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and businesses” WorldGivingCitizensTaxesAdvantageOffering Author:Ed Miliband
“Carbon tax has the advantage of basically being able to subsidize one set of activities that you want with another set of activities that you don't want. It's like a cigarette tax.” WantAbleActivityTaxesAdvantageCigaretteCarbonCarbon Tax Author:Stewart Brand
“Why is an accountant who knows the regulation and codes and takes advantage of tax loopholes that save you thousands of dollars each year good, But SEO's who take advantages of loopholes and flaws in Google's algorithm to bring you traffic that makes you thousands of dollars bad?” KnowsYearsTaxesAdvantageDollarsMarketingCodeOnlineFlawsRegulationGoogleTrafficAccountantsAlgorithmsLoopholesSeoOnline Marketing Author:Michael Gray
“The tax code gives you an enormous advantage if you can find some things you can just sit with.” IfsGivingTaxesAdvantageEnormousCode Author:Charlie Munger
“I'm the strongest advocate you can imagine for doing things honestly and paying your taxes. Take advantage of every tax break you're legally entitled to. But I follow the letter of the law, because the consequences are severe if you're caught. I was a perpetrator at one time and suffered severe consequences. It is difficult in some places, but if you live in places like California, move somewhere else to save some money.” IfsMovingLawDifficultBreakImagineTaxesConsequenceAdvantageLettersCaughtHonestlyCaliforniaStrongestOne TimeEntitledSevereSomewhere ElsePerpetratorsTax Breaks Author:Michael Franzese
“Our largest companies should not be able to get away with paying hardly anything at all. It is insulting when they engage in these games like moving their headquarters over to a foreign country, on paper, not in reality, just to take advantage of lower tax breaks.” ShouldCountryRealityAbleMovingGamesCompanyBreakTaxesPaperAdvantageGet AwayInsultingForeign CountriesHeadquartersTax Breaks Author:Hillary Clinton
“A lot of the people that are poor take advantage of loopholes and pay no taxes.” PeoplePoorPayTaxesAdvantageLoopholes Author:Rudy Giuliani
“The money is with people who have taken advantage of every single break in the tax code.” PeopleBreakTakenTaxesAdvantageCodeTaken Advantage Author:Hillary Clinton