“The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.” PeopleGovernmentExistenceTaxesEssentialsPropertyTax DayProperty Taxes Author:James Madison
“President Reagan, Jack Kemp and other advocates of supply-side economics understood that pro-growth tax, spending and economic policies were essential to America's long-term economic and fiscal health.” LongAmericaSidesGrowthPresidentTermEconomicPolicyTaxesEssentialsUnderstoodEconomicsSpendingLong TermEconomic PolicyPresident ReaganSupply Side Economics Author:Bob Beauprez
“The Assembly passed a budget that makes the right choices for young students across the state by helping schools avoid cutting essential educational programs, laying off teachers and increasing local property taxes. Without a sound investment in our children and their education, New York would face crumbling school buildings, overcrowded classrooms, and few opportunities to excel.” ChildrenStatesHelpingSchoolFacesYoungChoicesOpportunitySoundTeacherCuttingNew YorkStudentsBuildingTaxesEssentialsProgramOur ChildrenPropertyInvestmentEducationalLocalsBudgetsClassroomAssemblyRight ChoicesCrumblingMake The Right ChoiceYoung StudentsProperty TaxesEducational ProgramsSchool Buildings Author:Jose Peralta
“The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for the secretary of commerce's office, to bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn ... seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime. Surely civilization would collapse without such essential services.” MenYearsEnoughLastsPayQualityFourWeekTvsCivilizationTaxesEssentialsOfficeLowsPaidPlantSevenTerrorCustomsFarmersSovietRegimesCollapseCommerceLast YearSecretaryCurtainsSalaryCornWheatPropsHigh QualityBribeAcresSubsidiesMedianFederal Taxes Author:Alan Bock
“My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential.” ShouldFeelingsSeemsUsedMy OwnActivityTaxesEssentialsRefuseAgencyAggressionRefusalRepressionAvoidanceMilitarism Author:Noam Chomsky
“It's one thing to maintain that upper-income earners should pay higher tax rates because they are better able to shoulder the burden for essential government services. But it's constitutional blasphemy to claim that the tax code should be used as a weapon against the wealthy and that the state should be the tyrannical arbiter of how income is distributed.” ShouldStatesGovernmentAbleUsedPayOne ThingHigherTaxesEssentialsWeaponsClaimsRateBurdenShouldersIncomeCodeWealthyBlasphemyArbiterGovernment Service Author:David Limbaugh