“We need to use economic instruments such as carbon taxes, cap and trade, tax and dividend and whatever else to help incentivize behavior that will move us to a post-carbon, post-animal agriculture world, and make our societies more resilient to the shocks that are already baked into the system. But that doesn't make climate change an "economic issue."” WorldNeedsHelpingUseMovingAnimalIssuesEconomicTaxesBehaviorInstrumentsTradeClimateClimate ChangePostsShockOur SocietyAgricultureCarbonCapsResilientDividendsEconomic IssuesAnimal AgricultureCarbon Tax Author:Dale Jamieson
“Cutting taxes even more on the wealthy and corporations, that's not going to help anybody except the wealthy and corporations.” HelpingCuttingTaxesCorporationsWealthy Author:Hillary Clinton
“I don't know that the conservatives truly realize this yet, but they are talking about repealing the mandate that says you must have health insurance, and they're talking about repleaing the taxes that help to finance it.” KnowsHelpingRealizingTalkingTaxesFinanceMandatesRepealing Author:Jonathan Karl
“If you look at countries like South Africa, where you had a black majority, there have been efforts to tax and help that black majority, but it hasn't come in the form of a formal reparations program.” IfsLooksHas BeensCountryHelpingFormBlackEffortTaxesProgramMajoritySouthSouth AfricaFormalReparations Author:Barack Obama
“Any discuss about taxes ends up being, are you raising them or lowering them, as the opposed to the question I ask - are we raising them for high income individuals that can afford it, and lowering them for lower income people who really need help. Those old categories don't work, and they're preventing us from solving them problems.” PeopleNeedsEndsHelpingProblemAsksIndividualTaxesIncomeCategoriesPreventingNeed Help Author:Barack Obama
“There are certain areas where foreign investors can help the local people to generate wealth, and improve their quality of life. Some companies, for example, Del Monte, which produces pineapples in Kenya, pay a huge amount of taxes, I am sure, to the Kenyan government, and they do create jobs for thousands of locals.” PeopleHelpingGovernmentJobsCertainWealthPayQualityCompanyExampleProduceHugeAmountTaxesAreasLocalsInvestorsQuality Of LifeKenyaPineapples Author:Wangari Maathai
“The Trump administration's economic agenda is the right agenda. Corporate taxes have been driving capital and brains and companies overseas for a decade. It has caused huge damage in investment and jobs and productivity. It was a mistake. We have to fix it. Counterintuitively, that usually helps middle-class wages, and lower-class wages, and job formation.” HelpingMistakeBrainEconomicTaxesInvestmentProductivityDriving Author:Jamie Dimon
“I don't think Democrats are ever going to get excited about cutting Medicaid to pay for tax cuts to wealthy people. I just don't think that's the direction we should be going in our country. The 1 percent's doing very well in America. They don't need more help. But Medicaid does.” PeopleThinkingCountryHelpingCuttingTaxesDemocratExcitedWealthy Author:Claire McCaskill
“Almost three years ago, when I retired, my wife and I were talking about our philanthropic work and how does one help give opportunity, particularly to kids growing up in very disadvantaged situations.And my initial kind of sense was, the government does that primarily, and what we should mostly do is pay our taxes. My wife said, no, I don't think that's quite right for us. We need to do more. We can do better.” ThinkingGivingKindHelpingKidsOpportunitySituationGrowing UpWifeTaxesMy WifeRetiredPhilanthropic Author:Steve Ballmer
“Immigration. There's two plans on the table. Hillary and I believe in comprehensive immigration reform. Donald Trump believes in deportation nation. You've got to pick your choice. Hillary and I want a bipartisan reform that will put keeping families together as the top goal, second, that will help focus enforcement efforts on those who are violent, third, that will do more border control, and, fourth, that will provide a path to citizenship for those who work hard, pay taxes, play by the rules, and take criminal background record checks.” BelieveHelpingTogetherChoicesI BelieveGoalEffortPathFocusHard WorkTaxesViolentImmigrationCitizenshipFamily Together Author:Tim Kaine
“If you take all the food aid, America is by far the most generous country. If you take the direct aid, we're very generous. But when you add on our private contributions - see, our tax system encourages private citizens to donate to organisations that, for example, help the folks in Africa. And when you take the combined effort of US taxpayers' money plus US citizens' donations, we're very generous. And we'll do more.” CountryHelpingEffortTaxesDirectAidsGenerousDonationDonate Author:George W. Bush
“Today, a large part of Peru's revenues come from mining. Many big mining companies only pay income tax, but they extract minerals, they pollute the water. They don't give any form of compensation to the regions where those minerals are extracted and where they do the damage, forcing the state to help those regions. What my party Gana Peru is stating is that the mining companies will have to pay that compensation. That is called a royalty.” GivingHelpingTodayWaterPartyTaxesRoyaltyCompensationIncome TaxMining Author:Ollanta Humala
“We aren't protecting the people who most need it when those who can contribute to the country's success emigrate. Contrary to what some claim, I am not getting rid of the wealth tax to help the rich.” PeopleHelpingWealthRichTaxes Author:Emmanuel Macron
“What the Trump tax plan is a plan to give tiny little tax cuts to most Americans, raise taxes on perhaps one in five families and shower benefits on people who earn millions of dollars a year. And this fits with a fundamental principle the Republicans have been pursuing for a long time. The rich aren't investing and creating jobs, because they don't have nearly enough money, and so we need to get them money. And the way the Republicans want to get it to them is tax cuts first, and then to take away help for children, the disabled, the elderly and the poor.” PeopleGivingChildrenLongEnoughHelpingPoorRichCuttingFitRepublicanTaxes Author:David Cay Johnston
“Canadians expect their government to make sure we're helping the people who need the help and growing the economy, and that's exactly what we're committed to do, not just with our historic investments into infrastructure that are going to create jobs while the others are focusing on cuts, but by lowering payroll taxes, by lowering EI premiums from $1.88 to $1.65, at the same time as we make sure that the people who need help are getting the help that they paid into, because they're not getting it under Stephen Harper. That's what Canadians expect from their government.” PeopleHelpingEconomyCuttingTaxesInvestmentCommittedHistoricNeed HelpPayroll Author:Justin Trudeau
“I'd like to help struggling homeowners who can't pay their mortgages, I'd like to invest in our crumbling infrastructure, I'd like to reform the tax system so multimillionaires can't pretend their earnings are capital gains and pay at the rate of 15 percent. I'd like to make public higher education free, and pay for it with a small transfer tax on all financial transactions. I'd like to do much more - a new new deal for Americans. But Republicans are blocking me at every point.” HelpingStruggleRepublicanTaxesRateFinancialBlockMortgageHigher EducationHomeowners Author:Barack Obama
“I know that I pay 48 percent of my income to taxes. You know, I wouldn't mind so much if it wasn't going just to export war. If it was actually going to help the people of the United States, I would gladly pay more.” PeopleIfsKnowsMindWarStatesHelpingUnitedPayUnited StatesTaxesPercentIncome Author:Roseanne Barr
“Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.” PeopleKindPersonsImportantHelpingLiteratureWishPresidentBehindsRichTaxesVotersProposalPresident BushRich Person Author:Andy Rooney