“In 1990, about 1 percent of American corporate profits were taken in tax havens like the Cayman Islands. By 2002, it was up to 17 percent, and it'll be up to 20-25 percent very quickly. It's a major problem. Fundamentally, we have a tax system designed for a national, industrial, wage economy, which is what we had in the early 1900s. We now live in a global, asset-based, services world. And we need to have a tax system that follows the economic order or it's going to interfere with economic growth, it's going to reduce people's incomes, and it's going to damage the US.” WorldProblemGrowthEconomyTakenEconomicTaxesInterfereEconomic Growth Author:David Cay Johnston
“Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors - brilliant!” WayProblemNumbersTaxesApproachDoctorsIncreaseBrilliantHealthcareCollectorsDecrease Author:Charles Krauthammer
“I'm not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don't see the problem.” IdeasProblemSeemsBeautifulSimpleTaxesFinancialExpertsHoodRobinsRobin HoodSimple And Beautiful Author:Bill Nighy
“The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.” WayNeedsStatesProblemLightFacesIndividualCommunityAnswersResultsGreaterHigherTaxesWasteSpendingPrioritiesAddressesLocality Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973 Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973
“Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade.” ProblemBigsLastsGrowthTermHalfCuttingEconomicTaxesArgumentIncreaseDemocratDecadesMeaningfulConclusionPrimariesJust OneDriversDeficitShort TermEconomic GrowthTax CutsEconomic ProblemsTax Increases Author:Bob Beauprez
“More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.” ProblemFunnySufferingMoneyTaxesPaymentFunny Friend Author:Robert Orben
“The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.” PeopleLittlesProblemGovernmentToo MuchTaxesConservativeDebtSpending Author:Ronald Reagan