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“Churches are tax exempt because they are supposed to provide a public good. To prove that good to the IRS, churches arent supposed to hoard their money. They are supposed to spend it on goods and services for the faithful. Under this pretense, the church has made massive investments in tax free real estate all over the world. And when it comes to labor costs, they are almost free.”

World Made Real Church Cost Prove Taxes Labor Investment Faithful Massive Goods Estates Pretense Irs Public Good Goods And Services

Author:Lawrence Wright

“Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods. It would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to tax) but "to bind us in all cases whatsoever," and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious, for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.”

Source: The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: To which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life

“People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.”

People Simple Pay Taxes Luxury Shops Goods Shopping Amusement Purchasers

Book:Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already produced; it dries up the source of riches, while it usually respects acquired property. Freedom, on the contrary, produces far more goods than it destroys; and the nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.”

Certain Individual Nations Wealth Produce Source Taxes Resources Increase Institutions Property Riches Contrary Ruins Goods Despotism Preventing Depriving

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“Houseless: Having paid all taxes on household goods.”

Taxes Paid Goods Household

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Tariffs protect ill-considered government policies, such as costly regulations and high taxes on labor and capital that make our goods uncompetitive in international markets.”

Government Policy Protect Taxes Labor International Ill Goods Regulation Tariffs Government Policy High Taxes Labor And Capital

Author:Paul Craig Roberts

“[High income tax rates] not only check consumption but discourage investment and encourage...the avoidance of taxes [rather] than the production of goods.[...]Our present tax system...reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into the productive economic sector”

Ifs Would Be Social Economic Cost Taxes Increase Consumers Productive Gambling Goods Revenue Banned

Author:John Warren Kindt

“The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales tax revenues from that”

Can Do Taxes Dollars Consumers Buying Gambling Goods Revenue Legislature Lottery Sales Tax

Author:John Warren Kindt

“Most people don't know this, but if you settle a debt for less than the amount you owed, you are potentially responsible for taxes on the forgiven debt. Look at it this way: You received goods and services for the full amount of debt, but you're only paying for a portion of it - sometimes less than 50%. Anything more than $600 is generally considered taxable, but the IRS will sometimes waive the tax if you can prove that your assets were less than your liabilities when the debt was settled.”

People Ifs Knows Way Looks Sometimes Amount Prove Taxes Responsible Debt Settling Goods Assets Portions Forgiven Liability Irs Goods And Services

Author:Jean Chatzky

“What do the 5%, or the 1% actually use their money for? They lend it back to the economy at large, they load it down with debt. They make their money by lending to the bottom 95%, or the bottom 99%. When you give them more after-tax income, it enables them to buy even more control of government, even more control of election campaigns. They're not going to spend this money back into the goods-and-services economy.”

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Author:Michael Hudson

“Care work produces public goods, and should be supported in families by policies such as paid parental leave and caregiver tax credits, and by investments in good training and wages for caregiving, including early childhood education, in the market.”

Should Care Childhood Policy Produce Taxes Training Paid Investment Including Credit Goods Wages Parental Early Childhood Caregivers Caregiving Early Childhood Education

Author:Riane Eisler

“We can't afford to waste people. We can't afford to have people think the game is over before it's begun. We've got to be saying to the Canadian people: you can't tax cut your way to a productive 21st-century economy. You can talk that talk, but it's not going to give you a productive 21st-century economy, because it will scythe apart the public goods that make prosperity possible. That's what we've got to say, and so we shall.”

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Author:Michael Ignatieff