“Indeed the three policy pillars of the neoliberal age-privatization of the public sphere, deregulation of the corporate sector, and the lowering of income and corporate taxes, paid for with cuts to public spending-are each incompatible with many of the actions we must take to bring our emissions to safe levels.” AgeActionThreeLevelsCuttingPolicySafeTaxesPaidSpendingIncomeCorporateSpheresEmissionsPillarsPrivatizationDeregulation Book:This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate Source: This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate
“My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.” WorldFeelsYearsDifferentAgeParentBoysTaxesSixAdultsMatureEarningPupilsEarning Money Author:Aaron Taylor-Johnson
“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.” PeopleWantMeanAgeLevelsTaxesBenefitsDemocratIncomeCodeRetirementTested Author:Lindsey Graham
“It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of this; they shall be famous to all posterity;" whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now.” AgeNextTakenTaxesPleasantPosterity Author:Jonathan Swift
“Maybe we need a tax credit for the poorest Americans to buy a laptop. Now, maybe that's wrong, maybe that's expensive, maybe we can't do it, but I'll tell you, any signal that we can send to the poorest Americans that says, 'We're going into a 21st century, third-wave information age, and so are you, and we want to carry you with us.'” WantNeedsAgeCenturyInformationInternetTaxesThirdsWaveCreditExpensiveFree Speech21st CenturySignalsPoorestLaptopsInformation Age Author:Newt Gingrich
“I've said repeatedly publicly, and other members have, that until you adjust the eligibility for entitlements, do things like raising the age for Medicare for future beneficiaries. Not for those currently receiving or those about to receive. Have serious means testing for high income people. You know Warren Buffett's always complaining about not paying enough taxes. And what I'm complaining about is we're paying for his Medicare. We ought not to be providing these kinds of benefits for millionaires and billionaires.” PeopleKnowsKindMeanSaidEnoughAgeSeriousOughtTaxesMembersBenefitsComplainingIncomeReceivingProvidingTestingMillionaireEntitlementBillionaireMedicareBeneficiariesBuffettWarren BuffetAlways ComplainingEligibility Author:Mitch McConnell
“But an opinion that it is possible for the present generation to seize and use the property of future generations has produced to both parties concerned, effects of the same complexion with the usual fruits of national errour. The present age is cajoled to tax and enslave itself, by the errour of believing that it taxes and enslaves future ages to enrich itself.” BelieveUseAgePartyOpinionGenerationsEffectsTaxesConcernedPropertyFruitUsualFuture GenerationComplexion Author:John Taylor of Caroline
“Money is a topic that touches all races, all religions, all sexes, all ages, all tax brackets. It's a universal language that truly has been held up to us in society as a thing that determines whether we are successful, worthy, whether we have contributed something to life or not.” Has BeensAgeLanguageSexRaceSuccessfulTaxesUniversalDetermineWorthyTopicsUniversal LanguageBrackets Author:Suze Orman
“This is what class warfare looks like: The Business Roundtable - representing Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and others - has called on Congress to raise the eligibility age of Social Security and Medicare to 70, cut Social Security and veterans' COLAs, raise taxes on working families and cut taxes for the largest corporations in America.” LooksAgeAmericaSocialClassCuttingSecurityTaxesRaisesCongressCorporationsWarfareVeteranSocial SecurityRepresentingMedicareClass WarfareGoldman SachsEligibility Author:Bernie Sanders
“I am now at the age where I can withdraw a 25 per cent tax-free lump sum. I do not put in a set amount because my earnings are a moveable feast.” I CanAgeAmountTaxesCentsEarningLumpsMoveable Feast Author:Anthea Turner
“In a day and age of global competition and instantaneous financial flows, you have to be highly sensitive to the way in which tax policy impacts your overall competitiveness as a country.” WayCountryAgePolicyTaxesFlowImpactCompetitionFinancialSensitiveCompetitivenessInstantaneous Author:Jon Huntsman, Jr.
“You also want to look at how the tax system encourages and rewards pension saving. I have set as an ambition reversing the effects of Gordon Brown's tax raid which heralded the beginning of the age of responsibility. We are looking at some very specific tax measures on how we can encourage saving.” WantLooksAgeResponsibilityEffectsTaxesAmbitionRewardsSavingBrownPensionTax System Author:George Osborne
“Now that the most interesting matter of identity is not what place someone was born in, but what point in time they are from - where they sit in relation to time. Age has become much more divisive than place. With the Internet and globalization, a twenty-year-old in New York has far more cultural references in common with a twenty-year-old in Nebraska than they do with a thirty-year-old who lives next door. National identity is what they trick you with when they want your feet in their army boots or your taxes in their bailouts.” AgeInterestingCommonIdentityInternetTaxesArmyRelationGlobalizationMost Interesting Author:Nick Laird