“The American economy is driven by small business. And there's nothing basically to create incentives for small businesses. We've done no tax reform. They're the highest-taxed group in the country. And corporations can go anywhere they want and do whatever they want. Small businesses have to stay.” WantCountryDoneEconomyGroupsTaxesHighestDrivenReformCorporationsSmall BusinessIncentivesAmerican EconomyTax Reform Author:Ed Rollins
“... giving tax incentives for more labor ownership of company stock will do more to create jobs and increase productivity than all the "emergency full employment" bills proposed.” GivingWisdomJobsPoliticsCompanyEconomyTaxesLaborIncreaseBillsProductivityEmploymentLiberalismOwnershipEmergenciesIncentives Author:Jack Kemp
“I do believe in tax incentives in order to move the economy forward.” BelieveMovingOrderEconomyTaxesIncentives Author:Steve Southerland
“This was years ago, I think during the early [Ronald] Reagan years. I came up with a plan that everybody just pay $8.95 in taxes. Cheating would be allowed. But the incentive to cheat wouldn't be nearly as great if you only had to pay the $8.95. There were a few people who would have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars under this plan. I think it was Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, the guys who do the quiz shows. But almost everybody else would be off really cheap.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsShowsWould BeGuyPayMillionsPlansTaxesYears AgoMarkBillsDollarsCheatingCheatIncentivesQuizQuiz Show Author:Dave Barry
“An across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes ... to expand the incentives and opportunities of private expenditures.” OpportunityCuttingTaxesBottomIncomeCorporateBoardsIncentivesIncome TaxExpenditures Author:John F. Kennedy
“Our present tax system ... exerts too heavy a drag on growth ... It reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking ... The present tax load ... distorts economic judgments and channels an undue amount of energy into efforts to avoidtaxliabilities.” EnergyGrowthEffortRiskEconomicAmountTaxesJudgmentInvestmentFinancialHeavyDragLoadIncentivesRisk-takingTax System Author:John F. Kennedy
“[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.” EffortRiskTaxesInvestmentRateFinancialProductionsIncomeChecksGoodsConsumptionIncentivesDiscouragingAvoidanceIncome TaxRisk-takingTax System Author:John F. Kennedy
“Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.” Has BeensGovernmentAmericaProcessLinesBreakRiskIndustryTaxesGreenMovedInvestmentDozenUrbanIncentives Author:Jesse Jackson
“I love when problems have simple solutions. Cold medicine. Umbrellas. Condoms. Tax incentives & subsidies attracting favored industries.” ProblemSimpleColdIndustryTaxesSolutionsMedicineIncentivesUmbrellaCondomSubsidiesSimple Solutions Author:Greg Fitzsimmons
“The tax incentives are things the music business can emulate. If I own Yesterday by the Beatles and I go to a bank and try to borrow $10,000 and use that song as collateral, they wouldn't know what to do. They would run me out of the bank. Whereas if we get specialized people who know how to appraise the value of intellectual property like songs, catalogs and master recordings, they know how to put some type of value on it. They have this in Nashville and Los Angeles. New Orleans is just starting to get it.” PeopleIfsKnowsTryingUseRunningValuesSongKnow HowMastersTypeTaxesIntellectualPropertyStartingYesterdayLos AngelesNew OrleansIncentivesMusic BusinessEmulateNashvilleIntellectual PropertyCollateralAppraise Author:Chris Thomas King
“People who earn reasonable amounts are being turned into the anti-Christ. I think 45 per cent tax is a colossal amount to take off somebody, and it is taking away the incentive to earn.” PeopleThinkingChristAmountTaxesReasonableCentsIncentivesColossalAnti Christ Author:Anthea Turner
“When I became finance minister in 1991, I discovered that the wealth tax rates income - there was taxation on wealth. It was so atrocious and so high that actually nobody could accumulate money in an honest way. I removed that tax, and the result was that Indian companies for the first time acquired an incentive to grow big, to grow rich.” WayFirstsBigsGrowsWealthResultsCompanyRichHonestTaxesFirst TimeRateIncomeFinanceIndianMinistersTaxationIncentives Author:Manmohan Singh
“I am aware of what the position is in the United States of America. If somebody gives to charity, then he gets a tax incentive, provided the charity is registered in terms of the law.” IfsGivingStatesAmericaLawTermUnitedUnited StatesPositionTaxesCharityUnited States Of AmericaIncentives Author:Nelson Mandela