“You find that along with the culture of death go all kinds of other law-breaking: Not following good sanitary procedure, giving abortions to women who are not actually pregnant, cheating on taxes, all these kinds of things.” GivingKindLawCultureTaxesFollowingAll KindsAbortionCheatingPregnantProceduresSanitaryLaw Breaking Author:Todd Akin
“The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and drugs. The one great difference is that by now the revolution has deprived the mass of consumers of any independent access to the staples of life: clothing, shelter, food, even water. Air access remains the only necessity that the average user can still get for himself, and the revolution has imposed a heavy tax on that by way of pollution. Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.” WayKindStillsWaterDifferencesTechnologyEconomyAirMilitaryRevolutionDrugTaxesWeaponsMassIndependentRemainsTradeFinalsDefeatAverageHeavyAccessConsumersClothingsUsersPollutionShelterConsumerismConquestItemsDeprivedNoveltyFurThoroughOrnamentsOverconsumptionStaples Book:The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
“There are basically two kinds of tax, the kind the masses can see, and the kind they can't. The inflation tax is of the second kind.” KindTwoTaxesMassInflation Author:Michael Maloney
“Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic deficit of inertia, as the unwanted result of inadequate revenues and a restricted economy; or a temporary deficit of transition, resulting from a tax cut designed to boost the economy, increase tax revenues, and achieve -- and I believe this can be done -- a budget surplus. The first type of deficit is a sign of waste and weakness; the second reflects an investment in the future.” FirstsBelieveKindTwoDoneChoicesI BelieveResultsEconomyCuttingAchieveTypeTaxesWasteWeaknessEconomicsIncreaseInvestmentDebtPracticalsBudgetsTemporaryTransitionTaxationRevenueDeficitInadequateBoostInertiaTax CutsSurplusUnwanted Author:John F. Kennedy
“We had no religion at all, but we were Jews in New Hampshire, and my sister - who is now a rabbi - said it best: We were, like, the only Jews in Bedford, New Hampshire, as well as the only Democrats, so we just kind of associated those two things together. My dad raised us to believe that paying taxes is an honor.” BelieveWellsKindSaidTwoTogetherDadHonorTaxesDemocratRaisedMy DadJewTwo ThingsMy SisterRabbiHampshireNew HampshirePaying Taxes Author:Roseanne Barr
“Germany is a fascinating role model. The Germans have maintained their manufacturing edge despite being a high-tax, high-regulation economy. Why? Because the government really set about ensuring that it maintained funding for technical training, technical advancements and programs. It made a concerted effort to retain high-end, complex manufacturing -- the kind of BMW model, if you will. And they've done that so successfully that Germany, which has a quarter of America's population, exports more than America does.” IfsKindDoeMadeEndsDoneGovernmentAmericaEffortRolesEconomyTaxesModelsTrainingProgramComplexesEdgesPopulationDespiteGermanyFascinatingRole ModelsQuartersRegulationAdvancementFundingManufacturingBmwHigh TaxesTechnical Training Author:Fareed Zakaria
“All that stuff with the tabloids is a kind of luxury tax I pay for all the good things I do in my life.” KindStuffPayTaxesGood ThingsLuxuryTabloids Author:Ethan Hawke
“I think the knowledge about how legislation really affects small businesses is extremely valuable. If you haven't run a small business, then you don't have this kind of knowledge about how a regulation passed or taxes increased affects your bottom line. If you recognize that every new regulation takes that much more time to comply with, requires that many more employees, then it really gives you that foundational basis to make those decisions.” IfsThinkingGivingKindRunningLinesDecisionHavensTaxesBasesBottomValuableEmployeeMore TimeRegulationLegislationSmall BusinessBottom Line Author:Kristi Noem
“What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any.” KindCertainEffortPrinciplesTaxesParliamentObjections Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
“Life isn't perfect and that's the kind of world where Jesus showed up. He wasn't born in a palace on a perfect day. He was born in the middle of the night during tax season to an unwed couple in a stable or a cave in a sheep field. That was God's way of showing us that nothing is perfect. Life is chaotic. It's messy. That's what Jesus was stepping into.” WorldWayKindLife IsNightJesusBornPerfectMiddleFieldsCoupleTaxesSeasonsSheepStableCavesPalacesMessyChaoticMiddle Of The NightPerfect LifePerfect DaysNothing Is Perfect Author:Louie Giglio
“They [NPR] are, of course, Nazis. They have a kind of Nazi attitude. They are the left wing of Nazism. These guys don't want any other point of view. They don't even feel guilty using tax dollars to spout their propaganda. They are basically Air America with government funding to keep them alive.” WantFeelsKindGovernmentAmericaGuyCoursesLeftViewsAttitudeAliveAirTaxesDollarsWingsPoint Of ViewGuiltyPropagandaNaziFundingNazismLeft WingTax DollarsNprGovernment FundingAir America Author:Roger Ailes
“The most expensive care we can give, we're giving those Americans without insurance. It's kind of stupid that we're fighting the notion that we want to quit paying a hidden tax and be up front about covering people in a way that is cost-effective.” PeopleWayWantGivingKindCareFightingFrontsStupidCostTaxesNotionQuittingExpensiveCovering Author:Barack Obama
“Many of us were kind of irritated with Obama for larding it with tax cut, which we didn't think was going to be stimulative.” ThinkingKindCuttingTaxesTax CutsIrritated Author:Barack Obama
“Standardized tests are an indicator of the kind of service taxpayers are receiving - and whether schools, educators and policymakers are doing their jobs. In the United States, taxpayers spend almost $600 billion annually on public education, so it's not unreasonable to ask what all that money is producing. In fact, it's irresponsible not to know.” KnowsKindStatesFactsRealitySchoolJobsAsksPoliticsLeadershipWorkJusticeUnitedMoneyEducationUnited StatesPolicyTaxesTestsStrategyBillionsIdeologyReceivingTaxpayersIrresponsibleEducatorUnreasonablePublic EducationIndicators Author:Michelle Rhee
“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
“I've said repeatedly publicly, and other members have, that until you adjust the eligibility for entitlements, do things like raising the age for Medicare for future beneficiaries. Not for those currently receiving or those about to receive. Have serious means testing for high income people. You know Warren Buffett's always complaining about not paying enough taxes. And what I'm complaining about is we're paying for his Medicare. We ought not to be providing these kinds of benefits for millionaires and billionaires.” PeopleKnowsKindMeanSaidEnoughAgeSeriousOughtTaxesMembersBenefitsComplainingIncomeReceivingProvidingTestingMillionaireEntitlementBillionaireMedicareBeneficiariesBuffettWarren BuffetAlways ComplainingEligibility Author:Mitch McConnell
“There's only one kind of tax that would please everybody - one that nobody but the other guy has to pay.” KindPoliticalGuyPayPleaseTaxesProgramOther GuysGovernment Programs Author:Earl Wilson
“I kind of like carbon taxes because we already know how to apply them. We already have apparatus in place. When we talk about these other solutions - like a billion tons of iron filings in the ocean or putting sunshades between us and the sun - they're huge. We have no idea if they will work. We have no idea what their nasty consequences might be. And it's unlikely we can do them anyway.” IfsKnowsKindIdeasMightCan DoKnow HowSunHugeTaxesOceanSolutionsConsequenceBillionsNo IdeaIronNastyCarbonUnlikelyFilingCarbon Tax Author:Paul R. Ehrlich
“[T]ax cuts are not just something that all taxpayers deserve, but also the best way to curb government spending. It is the best kind of tax reform. If the money never reaches the table, Congress can't gobble it up.” IfsWayKindGovernmentCuttingTaxesDeserveTablesCongressSpendingBest WayReformTaxpayersCurbGovernment SpendingTax Reform Author:Zell Miller
“What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children.” GivingKindChildrenCareNationsBreakTaxesTake CareElderlyBillionaireTax Breaks Author:Bernie Sanders
“My financial adviser Ric Edelman...thinks the time to start educating people about money is when they are children. He's set up a retirement plan called the RIC-E-Trust that can provide retirement security. A $5,000 one-time tax-deferred investment at birth, with an average interest rate of ten percent compounded, means that a child would have $2.4 million when he or she is 65 years old. Who needs Social Security with that kind of nest egg?” PeopleThinkingNeedsYearsKindMeanChildrenSocialInterestMillionsPlansSecurityBirthTenTaxesPercentInvestmentRateFinancialAverageEggsRetirementOne TimeSocial SecurityNestsInterest RateAdviser Author:Cal Thomas
“I think that a lot of teenagers think they got it all down-pat. Especially when they first move out and they're on their own for the first time. Oh this is easy, this is breezy. Then all of a sudden it hits you in your mid-twenties that maybe you don't know how to do your taxes still. There's all kinds of things and you start calling your parents up again.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsKindStillsMovingEasyParentKnow HowCallingTaxesFirst TimeTwentiesAll KindsTeenagerBreezy Author:Katy Perry
“My children are my greatest gifts and my greatest inspirations. That my husband is the most honest, kind, hard-working, and genuine person, and I honestly don't know how I could ever live without him. That my parents love me and I love and appreciate them. That I hate doing taxes. That my biggest pet peeve is inconsiderate people. That I love laughing, traveling, volunteering, and my friends. That my favorite smell is chocolate chip cookies baking in the oven. That I am blessed.” PeopleKnowsKindChildrenPersonsHardInspirationHateParentLaughingKnow HowHonestHard WorkHusbandTaxesMy FriendsAppreciateI HateBlessedMy FavoriteSmellHonestlyGenuineMy ChildrenPetMy HusbandChocolateVolunteerChipsCookiesBakingGreatest GiftsOvensParents LoveInconsideratePeevesChocolate ChipsPet PeeveChocolate Chip CookiesGenuine Person Author:Trista Sutter
“In enforcement, you always have to have both a focus on the really worst actors - you know, gang bangers, in this case, drug dealers, that sort of thing - but also routine enforcement because think about, for instance, the IRS. They don't say, OK, well, if you're not a money launderer, it doesn't matter whether you fill your tax return out right or not. They have both. They go after the really bad actors and they have a kind of general, routine enforcement.” IfsThinkingKnowsWellsKindMatterActorsCasesFocusWorstReturnDrugTaxesInstanceRoutineEnforcementGangDealerIrsDrug DealersTax Returns Author:Mark Krikorian
“I'm not going to tell people that I will raise your incomes and not your taxes, and not mean it, because I don't want to see the kind of struggle that the middle class is going through exemplified by these promises that would raise taxes and make it much more difficult for many, many Americans to get ahead and stay ahead. That is not my agenda.” PeopleWantKindMeanDifficultClassStruggleMiddlePromiseTaxesRaisesIncomeMiddle ClassAgendasGet Ahead Author:Hillary Clinton
“The only role other than paying their taxes, whatever those are, the only role for philanthropy broadly - of which the rich should give disproportionately - the more, the better - and I think there is a positive trend in that direction - there are certain risk-taking things, like trying out a new type of charter school or funding a new kind of medicine.” ThinkingGivingShouldTryingKindSchoolCertainRolesRichRiskTypeTaxesMedicineTrendsPhilanthropyFundingRisk-takingCharterCharter Schools Author:Bill Gates
“I'd like to see a little more action on the energy side of things. I've been pushing for some kind of a carbon tax for years, and it seems to me we've had lots of opportunities to do it.” YearsKindLittlesSeemsActionOpportunityEnergySidesTaxesPushingCarbonCarbon Tax Author:Robert F. Engle
“All it takes is Harry Reid saying a friend told him [Mitt] Romney hadn't paid his taxes in ten years and it's over. But these kinds of things aren't gonna work on [Donald] Trump.” YearsKindTrumpTenTaxesPaidRomney Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The kind of plan that Donald [Tramp] has put forth would be trickle-down economics all over again. In fact, it would be the most extreme version, the biggest tax cuts for the top percent of the people in this country than we've ever had.” PeopleKindCountryFactsWould BeCuttingPlansTaxesPercentEconomicsExtremesVersionsTax CutsTrampsTrickle DownTrickle Down Economics Author:Hillary Clinton
“This is a very challenging time in the life of our nation. Weakened America's place in the world after the leadership of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on the world stage has been followed by an economy that is truly struggling, stifled by an avalanche of more taxes, more regulations, Obamacare, the war on coal and the kind of trade deals that put American workers in the back seat.” WorldKindHas BeensWarAmericaNationsChallengesDealsStruggleEconomyStageTaxesTradeClintonWorkersBarackSeatsRegulationCoalObamacarePlaces In The WorldAvalanchesAmerican WorkersChallenging Times Author:Mike Pence
“I just don't think it's good public policy to tax fuel. It's kind of silly. It stops people from traveling and actually costs the economy more money than what you gain in the taxes.” PeopleThinkingKindEconomyPolicyCostTaxesGainsSillyFuelMore MoneyPublic Policy Author:David Neeleman
“Energy is a sector of the economy that has been particularly resistant to innovation. This is precisely the problem. It is why we are still dependant on energy sources that are 100 to 150 years old while virtually every other sector of the economy has transformed itself. This is why we believe that the faith that many environmentalists still hold that carbon regulations and taxes will drive sufficient private sector investment into energy markets to create the kind of innovation we need is unfounded.” NeedsYearsBelieveKindHas BeensStillsProblemEnergyEconomySourceTaxesInnovationInvestmentSufficientTransformedRegulationCarbonPrivate SectorEnvironmentalistEnergy Sources Author:Ted Nordhaus
“Whether it's being repealing or replacing Obamacare, rolling back excessive regulations, making the kind of investments that'll support infrastructure, or reducing taxes and reforming business taxes across the country. That's just a sampling of the things that we're working on right now.” KindCountrySupportRight NowTaxesInvestmentRegulationRollingInfrastructureReducingObamacareSamplingRepealing Author:Mike Pence
“[My father] was also a lawyer in his bank and specialized in tax law. He would have to do the tax returns for all the Harvard profs because they were buffaloed by that kind of reasoning. Professors in the economics department, even they knew nothing about it.” KindLawFatherReturnTaxesEconomicsLawyerReasoningDepartmentProfessorsHarvardTax Returns Author:Paul Laffoley
“This is again, one of our pieces of our 200-pay plan, part of our very ambitious agenda. We really don`t think we can get the kind of economic growth we could - we had the potential to get without tax reform.” ThinkingKindGrowthPayPiecesPlansEconomicTaxesReformAgendasAmbitiousEconomic GrowthTax Reform Author:Paul Ryan
“So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.” PeopleIfsKindCountryAbilityGreaterOughtTaxesResourcesConcernedInvestingTaxpayers Author:Patrick J. Kennedy
“Everybody wants to matter. And that's the sales pitch. So all you have to do is go out and, you know, buy some new kind of newfangled hybrid car or agree to raise taxes or, if you go to the store, buy everything and anything with a green label on it and you are saving the planet.” KindCarTaxesAgreeHybrid Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There's no way you can grow an economy with that, with that many people not working and not paying taxes, you can have any kind of government solvency, you can't have any kind of growing economy, which is exactly what the Democrats want, by the way. Much better for the Democrats that you don't work. The more you work, the less dependent on them you are. If this sounds hideous, I'm sorry, it's true.” PeopleKindEconomyTaxesDemocratSorry Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Democrats have so corrupted our understanding of economics and productivity that lowering tax rates is now considered to be some kind of sop to the rich. I mean, it's just profound to me, the damage inflicted on this country by the Democrats in their pursuit of perpetual power.” KindMeanCountryUnderstandingRichTaxesProfoundDemocratRateProductivity Author:Rush Limbaugh
“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
“Donald Trump was tainted every kind of way you could imagine. I mean, no way in the world that Donald Trump is a champion of working people. He has hurt workers in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Florida, multiple bankruptcies, never showed his taxes. I don't know any good thing this guy's ever done. And yet, because he was able to throw hate and poison on Hillary Clinton, he was able to somehow prevail at least until the Electoral College. I think he was skilled at just sort of, like, keeping the attention on anyone but himself. He is the most outrageous person ever to win a presidential election.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindMeanDoneHateWinningHurtAttentionImagineCollegeTaxesElectionGood ThingsClintonPresidentialChampionMultipleBankruptcyPresidential Election Author:Keith Ellison
“I sit in the Senate, and see what Republicans are often advocating, it's those kind of tax loopholes for the richest of the rich or, frankly, for corporations and giving incentives for them to move jobs and opportunity overseas.” GivingKindMovingOpportunityRichRepublicanTaxesGiving In Author:Cory Booker
“Catching Trump out not paying his taxes, treating his employees like garbage - none of this sticks to him because that actually reinforces his power, power over other people, which is this specific kind of power that he's selling.” PeopleKindTaxesSellingEmployee Author:Naomi Klein
“By getting rid of loopholes, you are making the system more fair so people who make the same kind of money pay the same taxes.” PeopleKindTaxes Author:Paul Ryan
“I'm not shy about stating my opinion on political issues, so I can state my opinion, which is, on this one, Premier Notley's right. Because cap and trade systems have not been shown to work. And if you want to price carbon, then I would listen to the CEO of Suncor, who suggests a clean, transparent carbon tax makes a bunch more sense than a cap and trade system that just creates jobs for traders. I - I kind of agree with that.” KindPoliticalOpinionTaxesAgreeTradeShyCeo Author:Naheed Nenshi
“What Democrats haven't focused on are the kind of policies that would promote economic growth - such as making permanent the 2001/2003 tax cuts, opening up federal lands to more energy production, and reforming government to reduce its burden on business.” KindGovernmentEnergyGrowthCuttingEconomicLandHavensPolicyTaxesDemocratProductionsBurdenFocusedOpeningPermanentEconomic GrowthTax CutsOpening UpEnergy Production Author:Bob Beauprez
“It's really a question of fairness and what kind of country we're going to live in. There are 22,000 people making over $1 million. They're paying an effective tax rate in the teens. As Warren Buffett said, he pays less in taxes effectively than his secretary does. That's not right.” PeopleKindDoeSaidCountryPayMillionsTaxesRateTeensFairnessSecretaryBuffett Author:David Plouffe
“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