“How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?” GovernmentAmericaPoorRichTaxesExtrasUsualTaxation Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties
“I pay whatever tax I am required to pay under the law, not a penny more, not a penny less... if anybody in this country doesn't minimize their tax they want their heads read because as a government I can tell you you're not spending it that well that we should be donating extra.” IfsWantShouldWellsI CanCountryGovernmentPayTaxesSpendingExtrasPennies Author:Kerry Packer
“If I get married I get a tax break, if I have a kid I get a tax break, if I get a mortgage I get a tax break. I don't have any kids and I drive a hybrid, I think I should get a tax break. I'm trying to pay off my apartment so I have something tangible. I actually figured out if I paid off my place my reward would be that I would pay an extra four grand a year in taxes.” IfsThinkingShouldTryingYearsWould BeKidsPayBreakFourTaxesMarriedPaidRewardsExtrasApartmentTangibleMortgageHybridTax BreaksPaid Off Author:Bill Burr
“What really gets me is this - it's very ironic that those who are most critical of extra tax are those who are most vociferous in demanding extra expenditure. What gets me even more is that having demanded that extra expenditure they are not prepared to face the consequences of their own action and stand by the necessity to get the tax to pay for it. I wish some of them had a bit more guts and courage than they have.” ActionFacesWishBitsPayTaxesConsequencePreparedCriticalExtrasGutsIronicTaxationExpenditures Author:Margaret Thatcher
“We need to remember that we can't compete endlessly with other nations that set their income taxes substantially lower than ours. They will attract jobs, and investment. They may generate more tax - and they may even persuade their tennis champs to run that extra half yard” NeedsMayRunningJobsRememberNationsHalfTaxesInvestmentIncomeExtrasTennisYardsIncome Tax Author:Boris Johnson
“While Donald Trump was busy with his accountants trying to figure out how to keep living like a billionaire, and all the while he was using his political connections to collect hundreds of millions of dollars in government subsidies and extra tax breaks for his companies. In other words, Trump was taking from America with both hands, and leaving the rest of us with the bill.” TryingHandsGovernmentAmericaPoliticalCompanyBreakMillionsFiguresTrumpTaxesConnectionsBillsDollarsLeavingBusyExtrasBillionaireAccountantsSubsidiesTax Breaks Author:Hillary Clinton
“Coolidge was a pragmatist. He didn't start out with a tax theory. But he observed over time that lower tax rates sometimes brought in extra revenue. The success of his and Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon's experiment with rate cuts has been obscured by our modern history books.” Has BeensBookSometimesCuttingModernTheoryTaxesRateExperimentsExtrasSecretaryRevenueTreasuryAndrewHistory BooksModern HistoryPragmatists Author:Amity Shlaes
“If top marginal income tax rates are set too high, they discourage productive economic activity. In the limit, a top marginal income tax rate of 100 percent would mean that taxpayers would gain nothing from working harder or investing more. In contrast, a higher top marginal rate on consumption would actually encourage savings and investment. A top marginal consumption tax rate of 100 percent would simply mean that if a wealthy family spent an extra dollar, it would also owe an additional dollar of tax.” IfsMeanEconomicHigherActivityLimitsTaxesPercentGainsHarderDollarsInvestmentRateInvestingIncomeSavingExtrasProductiveWealthyContrastConsumptionTaxpayersSavingsDiscouragingIncome TaxSavings And Investment Author:Robert H. Frank
“Unless we are holding ourselves accountable day in, day out, not just when there's a crisis for folks who have power and influence and can hire lobbyists, but for the nurse, the teacher, the police officer, who, frankly, at the end of each month, they've got a little financial crisis going on. They're having to take out extra debt just to make their mortgage payments. We haven't been paying attention to them. And if you look at our tax policies in America, it's a classic example.” AttentionTeacherInfluencePolicyTaxesPoliceCrisisFinancialPay AttentionClassicExtrasNurseMortgagePolice OfficerFinancial Crisis Author:Barack Obama
“I argue that in the long run, the US would be on a far more financially secure footing if we recalibrate how we spend about two-to-three percent of the country's GNP, using state and federal taxes to create pools of money for spending on America's poor - which would, as numerous economists have argued in recent years, create virtuous spending circles, since those on lower incomes spend more of each extra dollar in their possession than do those on higher incomes.” LongRunningPoorTaxesPossessionArguingExtrasPoolVirtuousEconomist Author:Sasha Abramsky
“Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.” GivingJobsFormBreakTaxesCorporationsExtrasGeneral PublicTax BreaksTrickle Down Author:Andrew Mellon