“The challenge for any government is how do you do two things at the same time. How do you put money forward for things like the payroll tax holiday, for things like getting a jump-start on infrastructure, for building schools, and make the decisions for long-term deficit reduction.” LongTwoGovernmentSchoolTermChallengesDecisionBuildingTaxesLong TermTwo ThingsHolidayInfrastructureDeficitReductionPayrollPayroll Tax Author:Jacob Lew
“Thats one of the challenges of investing in China, is the lack of clarity with respect to tax positions.” ChallengesPositionTaxesInvestingChinaClarity Author:Jim Oberweis
“Selling, in particular, can be a challenge; many investors are tempted to become more optimistic when a security is performing well. This temptation must be resisted; tax considerations aside, when a security reaches full valuation, there is no longer a reason to own it.” WellsReasonChallengesSecurityParticularTaxesSellingOptimisticTemptationPerformingConsiderationInvestorsTemptedValuationPerforming Well Author:Seth Klarman
“They're all tied together: taxes, Medicare, Social Security, and the debt. We've got to have a setting of priorities, and looking at it - at each of them as disconnected, I think, doesn't properly address these major challenges.” ThinkingTogetherSocialChallengesSecurityTaxesMajorsDebtPrioritiesSettingSettingsAddressesTiedSocial SecurityMedicareDisconnected Author:John McCain
“After Brexit referendum, our country faces major challenges. Risks to the economy and living standards are growing. The public is split.The government is in disarray. Ministers have made it clear they have no exit plan, but are determined to make working people pay with a new round of cuts and tax rises.” PeopleMadeCountryGovernmentFacesChallengesPayEconomyClearCuttingGrowingPlansRiskTaxesMajorsStandardsRoundsDeterminedOur CountryMade ItMinistersSplitsExitReferendumsDisarrayNo Exit Author:Wes Streeting
“The G20 was established as a forum to discuss, first and foremost, world economic issues. If we load it with... Of course, politics affects economic processes, this is obvious, but if we bring some squabbles, or not squabbles, rather, some matters that are really important but relate purely to world politics, we will overload the G20 agenda and instead of addressing such issues as finance, structural economic reforms, tax evasion and so forth, we will engage in endless debates concerning the Syrian crisis or some other global challenges, of which there are many, or the Middle East problem.” IfsWorldFirstsImportantMatterProblemCoursesProcessChallengesIssuesEconomicMiddleTaxesCrisisObviousEastDebateEndlessFinanceReformRelateAgendasMiddle EastLoadForumsEvasionOverloadEconomic IssuesSquabblesWorld PoliticsEconomic ReformsTax Evasion Author:Vladimir Putin
“This is a very challenging time in the life of our nation. Weakened America's place in the world after the leadership of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on the world stage has been followed by an economy that is truly struggling, stifled by an avalanche of more taxes, more regulations, Obamacare, the war on coal and the kind of trade deals that put American workers in the back seat.” WorldKindHas BeensWarAmericaNationsChallengesDealsStruggleEconomyStageTaxesTradeClintonWorkersBarackSeatsRegulationCoalObamacarePlaces In The WorldAvalanchesAmerican WorkersChallenging Times Author:Mike Pence
“If we're going to have a strong and dynamic economy in the years ahead, we need to tackle some of the structural challenges that our economy faces and the tax code is one of the biggest.” IfsNeedsYearsFacesStrongChallengesEconomyTaxesCode Author:Karl Rove
“The failure of the first Barack Obama administration to really deliver on a new War on Poverty and a new language to explain these societal challenges in some ways provided the fuel that led to the Occupy Movement a few years later. And, while Occupy was a somewhat transitory phenomenon, many of the activist groups that emerged during this period are still out there, and still working on reshaping the political debate around taxes, around welfare, around government assistance to the poor, around debt relief for students, and so on.” WarPoliticalLanguageChallengesPoorPovertyStudentsTaxesDebateBarackWelfarePhenomenonActivistWar On Poverty Author:Sasha Abramsky