“It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of alternative minimum tax.” KnowsLastsThreeEasyDifficultTaxesPaidBillsCongressAccomplishAlternativesMinimumSimplification Author:Richard Neal
“Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts, I have proposed eliminating, getting rid of the alternative minimum tax.” PeopleTaxesLet MeDemocratDebateAlternativesBest ThingsTonightMinimumEliminatingMassachusetts Author:Richard Neal
“The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.” CertainTaxesBenefitsBurdenAlternativesMinimumTax Burden Author:Richard Neal
“I think it's time we had a President who will provide the only real economic security: good jobs. A President who will provide middle class payroll tax relief to get money in the pockets of workers who will spend it, not more tax giveaways for those at the top to stimulate the economy in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. A President who will index the minimum wage to inflation and raise it from a 30 year low, not increase the tax burden on the middle class and those struggling to join it.” ThinkingYearsRealJobsPresidentClassStruggleEconomyEconomicMiddleSecurityTaxesLowsIncreaseRaisesWorkersBurdenIslandsReliefMiddle ClassPocketsMinimumGood JobInflationMinimum WageGet MoneyPayrollEconomic SecurityPayroll TaxTax BurdenBermudaCayman Islands Author:John F. Kerry
“The American people want to raise the minimum wage. Every poll tells us that. That bill will not get to the floor of the Senate. The American people want to ask the rich to pay more in taxes. But the legislation that will get to the floor is tax breaks for billionaires.” PeopleWantAsksPayBreakRichTaxesRaisesBillsSenateMinimumLegislationPollsBillionaireMinimum WageTax Breaks Author:Bernie Sanders
“Due process requires some definite link, some minimum connection, between a state and the person, property or transaction it seeks to tax.” PersonsStatesProcessTaxesConnectionsPropertyDuesLinksMinimumDefiniteTransactionsDue Process Author:Robert H. Jackson
“Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk.” ShouldMadeDecisionRiskTaxesBasesInvestmentMinimumNet Worth Author:Warren Buffett
“I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero out the death tax.” GivingTaxesGainsAlternativesZeroMinimumDividendsCapital GainsCapital Gains Tax Author:Michele Bachmann
“Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.” DifferentLawIndividualEffortTaxesDegreesLaborRewardsRegulationUnnecessaryMinimumInflationMinimum WageWedges Author:Jack Kemp
“I want to break up the Wall Street banks. Hillary Clinton doesn't. I want to raise the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour. She wants $12 an hour. I voted against the War in Iraq. She voted for the War in Iraq. I believe we should ban fracking. She does not. I believe we should have tax on carbon and deal aggressively with climate change. That is not her position.” WantShouldBelieveDoeWarI BelieveHoursDealsBreakStreetsPositionWallTaxesShould HaveRaisesClintonClimateClimate ChangeIraqMinimumCarbonBucksBansMinimum WageFracking Author:Bernie Sanders
“I would favor three policies: raising the minimum wage to $12, closing the tax loophole where persons only pay a 15% income tax on long term capital gains (tax it at the full tax rate), and institute a progressive tax moving the highest tax rate from 39.6% to 45%. I would favor implementing these three policies in that order, starting with raising the minimum wage, but not stopping there.” PersonsLongMovingOrderThreeTermPayPolicyTaxesHighestGainsRateStartingFavorsIncomeLong TermProgressiveMinimumStoppingClosingInstituteIncome TaxMinimum WageLoopholesImplementingCapital GainsCapital Gains TaxProgressive Tax Author:Philip Kotler