“If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to support half the community who own no land and pay no taxes.” IfsEnoughCommunityPayHalfSupportShareLandThousandTaxesAcres Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933 Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933
“HALF of America pays NO taxes. Zero. So they're happy for tax rates to be raised on the other half that DOES pay any taxes.” DoeAmericaPayHalfTaxesRaisedRateZeroOther Half Author:Rick Warren
“They tax when you earn a dollar, they tax you when you save it, they tax you when you invest it. If you earn a dividend, they tax it again, and if you're stupid enough to die, they steal up to half.” IfsEnoughDiesHalfStupidTaxesDollarsStealingDividendsYou Re Stupid Author:Grover Norquist
“Democrats in Washington predicted that tax cuts would not create jobs, would not increase wages, and would cause the federal deficit to explode. Well, the facts are in. The tax cuts have led to a strong economy. Real wages were on the rise, and deficit has been cut in half three years ahead of schedule.” YearsWellsHas BeensRealFactsJobsThreeStrongCausesHalfEconomyCuttingTaxesIncreaseDemocratThree YearsSchedulesWagesDeficitTax CutsStrong Economy Author:George W. Bush
“Fewer and fewer people are paying larger and larger percentage of the tax burden, as you know, almost half the people pay no income taxes at all. We're going to have more people in the wagon than we got pulling the wagon before long and that's not going to work. Those jobless numbers, you know, go hand-in-hand with those tax numbers.” PeopleKnowsLongHandsNumbersPayHalfTaxesBurdenIncomeFewerJoblessPullingGoing To WorkPercentagesHand In HandIncome TaxWagonsTax Burden Author:Fred Thompson
“Is this not true--That in proportion to the value of their estates the extremely wealthy pay far less taxes than those of moderatemeans? Compare the amount paid by millionaires with the amount paid by ordinary citizens. I believe that in proportion to their estates they pay less than half as much as ordinary citizens, whereas they ought to pay more.” BelieveValuesI BelievePayHalfOughtAmountCitizensTaxesOrdinaryPaidCompareProportionWealthyEstatesMillionaireOrdinary Citizens Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone. But I've also gone to Chicago. I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson, I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder...” WantYearsKindDifferentLeftHoursPartyHalfGoneFiveCuttingRepublicanTenTaxesBiggerBudgetsFive YearsChicagoSenateDifferent KindsBalancedDetroitLeft AloneTax CutsHalf HoursBaltimoreFergusonBalanced BudgetBigger Better Author:Rand Paul
“Now many such things may be done without intitling the people to rise in arms. A gross, flagrant, and palpable abuse no doubt will do it, as if they should be required to pay a tax equal to half or third of their substance.” PeopleIfsShouldMayDonePhilosophyPoliticalPayHalfDoubtArmsTaxesEqualEconomicsThirdsAbuseSubstanceNo DoubtGross Author:Adam Smith
“If all the lawyers were hanged tomorrow, and their bones were sold to a mah jong factory, we'd all be freer and safer, and our taxes would be reduced by almost a half.” IfsWould BeHalfTomorrowTaxesBonesLawyerFactories Author:H. L. Mencken
“The more the state gives to its citizens, the less they have to earn. That is the basic concept of the welfare state - you receive almost everything you need without having to earn any of it. About half of Americans now pay no federal income tax - but they receive all government benefits just as if they had paid for, i.e., earned them.” IfsNeedsGivingStatesGovernmentPayHalfCitizensTaxesBenefitsConceptsPaidIncomeWelfareIncome TaxWelfare State Author:Dennis Prager
“In the name of short-term stimulus, he [Obama] will give every American family (who makes less than $200,000) a welfare check of $1,000 euphemistically called a refundable tax credit. And he will so sharply cut taxes on the middle class and the poor that the number of Americans who pay no federal income tax will rise from the current one-third of all households to more than half. In the process, he will create a permanent electoral majority that does not pay taxes, but counts on ever-expanding welfare checks from the government.” GivingDoeGovernmentNamesProcessTermPoorNumbersPayHalfClassCuttingMiddleTaxesThirdsMajorityCurrentsCreditIncomeChecksPermanentWelfareMiddle ClassHouseholdExpandingShort TermStimulusIncome TaxAmerican Family Author:Dick Morris
“More than half of all people filing income tax forms use someone else to prepare the forms for them. Then they have to sign under penalty of perjury that these forms are correct. But if they were competent to determine that, why would they have to pay someone else to do their taxes for them in the first place?” PeopleIfsFirstsUseFormPayHalfTaxesDetermineIncomePenaltiesCompetentIncome TaxFilingPerjury Author:Thomas Sowell
“The Obama administration seems to be following what might be called 'the Detroit pattern increasing taxes, harassing businesses, and pandering to unions. In the short run, it got mayors re-elected. In the long-run, it reduced Detroit from a thriving city to an economic disaster area, whose population was cut in half, as its most productive citizens fled.” LongSeemsMightRunningCitiesHalfCuttingEconomicCitizensTaxesAreasUnionsPatternsPopulationFollowingDisasterAdministrationProductiveLong RunsMayorsDetroit Author:Thomas Sowell
“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
“Well, here you had a city that was selling more cars than ever before, that had this wondrous music being created, that was so vital to the labor and civil rights of this country, and yet it was dying and didn't see it, except for some sociologist at Wayne State University who predicted that Detroit was losing population by a half-million by the end of that '60s decade, and that that trend would continue taking away its tax base.” WellsEndsCountryStatesCitiesHalfMillionsRightsDyingCarTaxesMusic IsLosingLaborUniversityPopulationDecadesSellingCivil RightsTrendsDetroitWayneWondrousSociologistsSelling More Author:David Maraniss
“What is obviously unfair is that the half of the population that doesn't go to university that's often on lower incomes pays more taxes in order to send other people to university, without them, you know, contributing.” PeopleKnowsOrderPayHalfTaxesUniversityPopulationIncomeUnfairContributing Author:Tony Blair
“If you're a Mexican citizen whether you live in a shanty shack or the big palace on the beach, when you turn 65, your property taxes are cut in half.” IfsBigsTurnsHalfCuttingCitizensTaxesPropertyBeachMexicanPalacesShackProperty Taxes Author:Jesse Ventura
“In Canada, we have a very good structure of supporting film through a number of government-sponsored initiatives, such as the tax credit and other grants. The northern part of Ontario has started its own funding. They were really happy to sponsor us, so they've been very supportive and put up half the budget for this film. They'd like us to come back and do more films.” GovernmentFilmNumbersHalfTaxesStructureVery GoodCreditBudgetsCanadaGrantsInitiativeSupportiveFundingReally HappySponsorsOntario Author:Alfons Adetuyi
“The only one benefiting from this, the American taxpayer, almost half of our taxes, our income taxes, are going to the military and to these wars.” WarHalfMilitaryTaxesIncomeTaxpayersIncome Tax Author:Jill Stein
“Income tax in particular in the United States is concentrated on the top half of the income distribution, and very heavily skewed towards the top 10 or even top 1 percent.” StatesUnitedHalfUnited StatesParticularTaxesPercentIncomeDistributionIncome TaxTop 10Income Distribution Author:Judy Woodruff
“79 senators, including that great conservative Elizabeth Warren, said they didn't like the medical device tax, so we will go at that law - which in my view is the single worst piece of legislation passed in the last half century - in every way that we can.” WaySaidLastsLawViewsHalfPiecesWorstCenturyTaxesIncludingConservativeMedicalDevicesSenatorsLegislationGreat Conservative Author:Mitch McConnell
“Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade.” ProblemBigsLastsGrowthTermHalfCuttingEconomicTaxesArgumentIncreaseDemocratDecadesMeaningfulConclusionPrimariesJust OneDriversDeficitShort TermEconomic GrowthTax CutsEconomic ProblemsTax Increases Author:Bob Beauprez