“Investor demand for distressed property has been healthy, as rents rise to levels that can cover investors' costs while they wait for properties to appreciate. Giving investors a small tax break should further juice up demand, supporting prices for distressed homes and the market in general.” GivingShouldHas BeensHomeWaitingLevelsBreakHealthyCostDemandTaxesAppreciatePropertyInvestorsJuiceGiving InTax Breaks Author:Mark Zandi
“Indeed the three policy pillars of the neoliberal age-privatization of the public sphere, deregulation of the corporate sector, and the lowering of income and corporate taxes, paid for with cuts to public spending-are each incompatible with many of the actions we must take to bring our emissions to safe levels.” AgeActionThreeLevelsCuttingPolicySafeTaxesPaidSpendingIncomeCorporateSpheresEmissionsPillarsPrivatizationDeregulation Book:This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate Source: This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate
“I trace the inequality to a particular set of decisions that we took when we lowered the tax rate from 91% down to very low levels at the top, where we stripped away regulations. So the result of that was not a more dynamic economy, but a more unequal society. We tried the experiment of trickle-down. A third of a century later, we can say fairly definitively that it was a failure.” DecisionLevelsResultsEconomyCenturyParticularTaxesLowsThirdsRateExperimentsInequalityRegulationLow LevelTrickle Down Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“We have to adjust the age retirement for younger people. People of my income level are going to have to have their benefits means-tested. Democrats are going to want a simpler tax code.” PeopleWantMeanAgeLevelsTaxesBenefitsDemocratIncomeCodeRetirementTested Author:Lindsey Graham
“Al Gore has made no serious attempt to level the playing field for U.S. agriculture exports, which have fallen 16 percent in the last three years. And Al Gore has opposed every serious proposal to provide American farmers with meaningful tax relief.” YearsMadeLastsThreeLevelsFieldsSeriousTaxesPercentMeaningfulFallenReliefAlsFarmersThree YearsAgricultureProposalGorePlaying Fields Author:Dan Quayle
“Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.” IfsKnowsFormLevelsTaxesTaxationMartyrIncome TaxCrooksTax DayTaxes Funny Author:Will Rogers
“[D]ecade after decade, through taxes and regulations, governments at all levels took ever-increasing control over people's lives, wealth, and property. The control grew exponentially, decade after decade. The rationale was that the control was necessary -- for society, for the poor, for the nation, even for freedom itself. Americans continued living their life of the lie: they continued believing that the more control government exercised over their lives and property, the freer they became.” PeopleBelieveGovernmentLyingNationsWealthPoorLevelsGrewTaxesPropertyDecadesRegulationRationale Author:Jacob G. Hornberger
“Devolving APD to Scotland is merely tinkering with it. We have to get shot of this hated tax right across the country to ensure all of our airports are competing on level terms.” CountryTermLevelsTaxesShotsHatedScotlandCompetingAirportsTinkering Author:Brian Donohoe
“If you look at what's happened to the stock market, if you look at what's happened to housing values, if you look at what's happened to bank loan portfolios because the value of their other assets that they've already issued loans against were going down, there was a pretty good argument for trying to pass something at about this level of investment with the divisions as they were - unemployment, food stamps, and tax cuts, aid to education and healthcare, and job creation.” IfsTryingLooksJobsValuesLevelsCuttingHappenedCreationTaxesArgumentInvestmentAidsDivisionAssetsHealthcareUnemploymentStampsHousingLoanTax CutsPortfoliosJob CreationFood Stamps Author:William J. Clinton
“You have educate the masses to exactly what their tax dollars are going to pay for. I think once people educate themselves and open up their minds to understand that on that really basic level, then you'll have some type of change in the way that Americans associate themselves and participate in their own political process.” PeopleThinkingWayMindPoliticalProcessLevelsPayTypeTaxesMassDollarsEducateAssociatesFiascoTax Dollars Author:Lupe Fiasco
“The artist is the lowest form of life on the rung of the ladder. The publishers are usually businessmen who deal with businessmen. They deal with promotional people. They deal with financial people. They deal with accountants. They deal with people who work on higher levels. They deal with tax people, but have absolutely no interest in artists, in individual artists, especially very young artists.” PeopleFormYoungArtistIndividualInterestLevelsDealsHigherTaxesFinancialBusinessmanLowestPublishersLaddersHigher LevelAccountantsYoung Artists Author:Jack Kirby
“The most absurd public opinion polls are those on taxes. Now, if there is one thing we know about taxes, it is that people do not want to pay them. If they wanted to pay them, there would be no need for taxes. People would gladly figure out how much of their money that the government deserves and send it in. And yet we routinely hear about opinion polls that reveal that the public likes the tax level as it is and might even like it higher. Next they will tell us that the public thinks the crime rate is too low, or that the American people would really like to be in more auto accidents.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantNeedsGovernmentMightWould BeWantedNextLevelsPayOpinionOne ThingCrimeFiguresHigherTaxesLowsDeserveRateAccidentsLikesAbsurdPublic OpinionPollsCrime RatesOpinion Polls Author:Llewellyn Rockwell
“I'm one of the few people up here who actually believes that we need a level playing field when it comes to manufacturing. That means a good tax code, a good regulatory environment, low energy prices, better opportunities for workers to get training...” PeopleNeedsBelieveMeanOpportunityEnergyLevelsEnvironmentFieldsTaxesLowsTrainingWorkersCodeManufacturingPlaying FieldsLevel Playing Field Author:Rick Santorum
“The oil industry is hardly free to operate as efficiently as it could or to be as responsive to consumer demands as it would like. It has become, in essence, a quasi-state-run enterprise, because it cannot drill, transport, refine, and store fuel without receiving government permission, complying with government regulations, and paying taxes at every level or production.” StatesGovernmentRunningLevelsIndustryDemandTaxesEssenceProductionsOilStoresConsumersFuelEnterpriseReceivingRegulationPermissionTransportDrillsGovernment RegulationPaying TaxesOil IndustryComplying Book:Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto Source: Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
“Public unions are the country's foremost advocates for increased taxes at all levels of government.” CountryGovernmentLevelsTaxesUnions Author:Jonah Goldberg
“It is impossible to manage the health care requirements of tens of millions of American citizens at the federal level. It is impossible to manage all of the permutations of people's economic aspirations and lives through a complex tax code. It is impossible to try to second-guess the market. It is impossible, from a managerial standpoint, for the federal government to do the things it is trying to do today.” PeopleTryingGovernmentCareTodayLevelsMillionsImpossibleEconomicCitizensTaxesComplexesManageHealth CareCodeAspirationRequirementsFederal GovernmentStandpointAmerican Citizens Author:Frederick W. Smith
“The [Donald] Trump plan would increase the national debt a little over a $1 trillion a year, the Trump plan would reduce taxes at all income levels with, of course, the biggest tax cuts going to the richest taxpayers as they always do.” YearsLittlesCoursesLevelsCuttingPlansTrumpTaxesIncreaseDebtIncomeTaxpayersTax CutsNational Debt Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“In my experience everyone will have a different view of the right level of tax so governments need to provide clear guidance that conforms to a set of international standards that all governments accept.” NeedsDifferentGovernmentLevelsViewsAcceptingClearTaxesStandardsInternationalGuidanceConformDifferent Views Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“That's an important Obama accomplishment: he raised taxes back to Bill Clinton levels, and made a major dent in inequality doing so. That's certain to be reversed, that's going to disappear. The Republicans are going to slash the rich's taxes.” MadeImportantCertainLevelsRichRepublicanTaxesMajorsBillsClintonRaisedDisappearInequalityAccomplishment Author:Jonathan Chait
“We want to have trade agreements that give us a level playing field, get other countries to respect the rule of law, intellectual property rights, lower their taxes to our barriers, that`s good for us, and that is something that I do believe that President [Donald] Trump agrees with.” WantGivingBelieveCountryLawPresidentLevelsRightsFieldsTrumpTaxesIntellectualAgreeTradePropertyBarriersAgreementOther CountriesRule Of LawProperty RightsPlaying FieldsIntellectual PropertyTrade AgreementsLevel Playing Field Author:Paul Ryan
“While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency.” StatesGovernmentPoorLevelsTaxesStandardsSettingSettingsParksEmployeeEfficiencyDelayState GovernmentIndianaVendorsRefundsNational StandardsPoor Service Author:Mitch McConnell
“In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.” GovernmentLevelsEconomyTaxesProgramDemocratRaisedToiletsMichiganGovernment Programs Author:Rick Perry
“By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.” LevelsClassCuttingMiddleTaxesClaimsDemocratRateMiddle ClassTax Cuts Author:John Podhoretz
“I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.” WantGovernmentTurnsLevelsEconomyAmountTaxesPercentRaisesDemocratDrivenFederal GovernmentCapsPrivate Sector Author:Mitt Romney