“People don't seem to make the connection between their tax money and the benefits that they get from their tax money, like free education, and the fire department, and police protection, and everything else. It drives me bonkers, because it's pretty straightforward to me.” PeopleSeemsFireTaxesBenefitsConnectionsPoliceProtectionDepartmentStraightforwardFree EducationFire DepartmentPolice Protection Author:Michael Schur
“If you have a debt issue or credit card issue, start dealing with it. If you have a tax issue, don't just say, 'I'm not going to file.' There are ways to deal with these things, but you must communicate with your creditors, whether it's a credit card company or tax department.” IfsWayDealsCompanyIssuesTaxesCommunicateCreditDebtCardsDepartmentFilesCredit CardCreditorsDealing With It Author:Hill Harper
“Very quickly the lawyers in the Justice Department pulled together a set of recommendations about how we ought to defend the law as a constitutional matter. And it was the lawyers in the Justice Department who thought that it was important to include the tax power argument as part of it.” ImportantMatterTogetherLawJusticeOughtTaxesArgumentLawyerDepartmentRecommendations Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.
“Anyone who's ever filed a tax return or visited the Department of Motor Vehicles understands that government does two things well: spend our money and waste our time.” WellsDoeTwoGovernmentReturnTaxesWasteOur TimeTwo ThingsDepartmentVehicleMotorTax ReturnsMotor Vehicles Author:Edwin Feulner
“I think that some of today's focus on freedom of information and trans rights have a tendency to focus on the actions of individuals and how they should be regulated by governments. However, I think it's important to remember that it is the institutions themselves - schools, tax collection services, banks, human resources decisions, health departments, police departments, prosecutors, courts, and prisons - where the most devastating and systemic problems occur today. The scale of these problems is simply unimaginable.” ThinkingShouldHumansImportantProblemGovernmentTodayActionSchoolRememberIndividualDecisionFocusRightsInformationTaxesResourcesPoliceInstitutionsCourtPrisonScalesTendenciesDepartmentCollectionsTransHuman ResourcesUnimaginableProsecutorPolice Department Author:Chelsea Manning
“[My father] was also a lawyer in his bank and specialized in tax law. He would have to do the tax returns for all the Harvard profs because they were buffaloed by that kind of reasoning. Professors in the economics department, even they knew nothing about it.” KindLawFatherReturnTaxesEconomicsLawyerReasoningDepartmentProfessorsHarvardTax Returns Author:Paul Laffoley