“England was killed by an idea: the idea that the weak, indolent and profligate must be supported by the strong, industrious, and frugal – to the degree that tax-consumers will have a living standard comparable to that of taxpayers; the idea that government exists for the purpose of plundering those who work to give the product of their labor to those who do not work. The economic and social cannibalism produced by this communist-socialist idea will destroy any society which adopts it and clings to it as a basic principle – ANY society.” GivingIdeasGovernmentPurposeStrongSocialPrinciplesEconomicProductsTaxesDegreesStandardsLaborWeakEnglandConsumersCommunistSocialistTaxpayersIndustriousBasic PrinciplesCannibalismFrugal Author:Dan Smoot
“Eventually we'll use a CO2 tax offset by a reduction in taxes elsewhere alongside a cap-and-trade plan, but the degree of difficulty associated with a CO2 tax far exceeds that with a cap-and-trade plan. We're seeing it's hard to get a cap-and-trade plan and it's much easier to use as a basis for a global agreement than a CO2 tax.” HardUsePlansSeeingEasierTaxesDegreesBasesDifficultyTradeAgreementElsewhereExceedCapsReductionCo2 Author:Al Gore
“I’m not only a lawyer, I have a post-doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I’ve worked in serious scholarship ... my husband and I have raised five kids, we’ve raised 23 foster children. We’ve applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.” ChildrenStatesKidsSchoolLawUnitedUnited StatesFiveRiskSeriousHusbandTaxesDegreesCourtRaisedLawyerReformPostsMy HusbandMaryScholarshipFoster ChildrenCharterEducation ReformDoctoratesCharter SchoolsFederal Taxes Author:Michele Bachmann
“I remember when I was in Chicago and data started coming out that when black folks walk into an auto dealership, and women, too, to some degree, they are automatically given higher quotes, worse deals. And this was just documented extensively across auto dealerships around the country. There was a tax being imposed on black folks. By collecting that data, you can construct policies to combat that.” CountryRememberGivenBlackWalksDealsPolicyHigherTaxesDegreesFolksDataChicagoCombatComing OutConstructsRemember WhenCollecting Author:Barack Obama
“Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.” DifferentLawIndividualEffortTaxesDegreesLaborRewardsRegulationUnnecessaryMinimumInflationMinimum WageWedges Author:Jack Kemp