“And most of all, it means continually drawing connections among these seemingly disparate struggles—asserting, for instance, that the logic that would cut pensions, food stamps, and health care before increasing taxes on the rich is the same logic that would blast the bedrock of the earth to get the last vapors of gas and the last drops of oil before making the shift to renewable energy.” MeanCareEarthLastsEnergyStruggleRichCuttingTaxesConnectionsLogicOilDrawingInstanceHealth CareGasStampsBlastPensionRenewable EnergyBedrockVaporFood Stamps Book:This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate Source: This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate
“First, the oil and gas business pays its fair share of taxes. Despite the current debate on energy taxes, few businesses pay more in taxes than oil and gas companies. The worldwide effective tax rate for our industry in 2010 was 40 percent. That's higher than the U.S. statutory rate of 35 percent and the rate for manufacturers of 26.5 percent.” FirstsEnergyPayCompanyShareIndustryHigherTaxesPercentFairsRateCurrentsOilDebateDespiteGasFair ShareOil And Gas Author:John S. Watson
“The last time we raised the gas tax, which is how we built the interstate system, was 1993.” LastsTaxesBuiltRaisedGasLast TimeInterstate Author:Ray LaHood
“The Bush administration, they had two blue ribbon commissions about infrastructure finance that recommended a lot more money, and additionally the gas tax being increased. We couldn't get them to accept being able to move forward. Since President Obama's been in office, there has been, to be charitable, a lack of enthusiasm for raising the gas tax.” Has BeensTwoAbleMovingPresidentAcceptingTaxesOfficeBlueMoving ForwardFinanceEnthusiasmAdministrationGasPresident ObamaMore MoneyInfrastructureCharitableRibbons Author:Ray LaHood
“I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water, gas, and electricity. I feel that it is my civic duty to pay my taxes as well as my other bills, and that it is my moral duty to make an honest declaration of my income to the income tax authorities. But I do not feel that I and my fellow citizens have a religious duty to sacrifice our lives in war on behalf of our own state, and, a fortiori, I do not feel that we have an obligation or a right to kill and maim citizens of other states or to devastate their land.” FeelsWellsWarStatesWaterReligiousPayMoralOur LivesSacrificeLandHonestDutyCitizensTaxesAuthorityOrganizationRegardFellowsBillsIncomeObligationGasElectricityDeclarationBehalfUtilityCivicsSuppliesIncome TaxCivic DutyMoral Duty Author:Arnold J. Toynbee
“You take the huge income that comes with a big gas tax, and you use it to pay off regressive taxes like the FICA [Federal Insurance Contributions Act] tax. You can help the poor in other ways besides giving them cheap gas. You want to send the message that people want to be as efficient as possible using gasoline until we can transition away from that need entirely.” PeopleWayWantNeedsGivingHelpingUseBigsPoorPayHugeTaxesMessagesIncomeContributionGasTransitionEfficientGasolineHelp The Poor Author:Paul R. Ehrlich
“Gas tax holiday is a classic Washington gimmick.” TaxesClassicGasHolidayGimmicks Author:Barack Obama
“If anybody is so mad at Vladimir Putin, you know what they could do? They could advocate for a gas tax. He gets all his leverage from selling gas and oil. If we had a gas tax that made that less palatable, he would be less of a player on the world stage.” IfsKnowsWorldMadeWould BePlayerStageTaxesMadOilSellingGasPutin Author:Bill Maher
“Ontario's gas tax rebates and infrastructure programs help create sustainable transit to improve quality of life for Ottawa residents with significant environmental benefits.” HelpingQualityTaxesBenefitsProgramEnvironmentalSignificantGasInfrastructureQuality Of LifeResidentsOntarioOttawa Author:Bob Chiarelli
“Hillary Clinton has decided to line up with John McCain in pushing to suspend the federal excise tax on gasoline, 18.4 cents a gallon, for this summer's travel season. This is not an energy policy. This is money laundering: we borrow money from China and ship it to Saudi Arabia and take a little cut for ourselves as it goes through our gas tanks. What a way to build our country.” WayLittlesCountryEnergyLinesCuttingPolicyTaxesSummerDecidedSeasonsClintonChinaShipsOur CountryGasPushingCentsTanksArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisMccainGasolineGallonsEnergy PolicyMoney Laundering Author:Thomas Friedman
“When you understand that your tax dollars pay for those tear gas canisters that were being fired into the crowd, and when you see that, and to know that a little bit of your fingerprint, your American DNA is a part of that, as well as those stealth bombers and that bomb that's lodged in the side of the school that has "Made in USA" on it in Gaza, and all of the unmanned drones that are blowing up weddings and things of that nature, to know that you pay for that, you really have - you don't have to do it now, but you need to think about that.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsWellsLittlesMadeSchoolBitsSidesPayTearsTaxesLittle BitDollarsCrowdsUsaBombsGasDnaDronesGazaFingerprintsBombersStealthBlowing UpTax Dollars Author:Lupe Fiasco
“The biggest industrial sector next to real estate is oil, gas and other mineral resources. They don't report any taxable income, because if you depict yourself as earning a profit, you have to pay a tax on it. So, it's all about what accountants choose to declare as profit.” IfsRealNextPayTaxesResourcesProfitOilIncomeReportsGasEstatesEarningAccountantsMineralsMineral Resources Author:Michael Hudson
“I understand gas prices are like a hidden tax - not a hidden tax; it's taking money out of people's pockets. I know that.” TaxesGasGas Prices Author:George W. Bush
“For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from.” YearsGovernmentLastsAmericaTakenTaxesOilBillionsGasFederal GovernmentCoastTreasuryOil And Gas Author:Mary Landrieu
“If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.” IfsMeanKidsCompanyBreakCuttingCollegeTaxesDollarsOilBillionsCorporateGasOwnersMillionaireScholarshipJetBillionaireTax BreaksOil And Gas Author:Barack Obama