“The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.” PeopleAmericaGivenTermGoneFourCuttingTaxesCongressScalesIncomeReliefTax Cuts Author:Richard Neal
“When you can identify a specific tax that people don't like, and this is one that was designed for the Rockefellers, for the Carnegies in 1916, to fund World War I, but now it's beginning to hit small business people, real estate holders, a lot of people well down the income scale who just spent a life building assets. Suddenly they get hit with a 40%, 50% tax rate.” PeopleWorldWellsWarRealBuildingTaxesRateScalesIncomeWar Of The WorldsFundAssetsWorld War IEstatesSmall BusinessCarnegie Author:Paul Gigot
“I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned. I abhor the waste and incompetence of large-scale federal bureaucracies in this administration as well as in others. I do not favor state compulsion when voluntary individual effort can do the job and do it well.” WellsStatesJobsIndividualCan DoEffortMagicTaxesWasteDollarsFavorsScalesAdministrationBureaucracyCompulsionIncompetenceLarge ScaleTax DollarsIndividual Effort Author:John F. Kennedy
“If the present tax rates had been in effect from the beginning of our century, many who are millionaires today would live under more modest circumstances. But all those new branches of industry which supply the masses with articles unheard of before, would operate, if at all, on a much smaller scale, and their products would be beyond the reach of the common man.” IfsMenWould BeTodayCommonEffectsCenturyProductsIndustryCircumstancesTaxesMassRateScalesBranchesArticlesModestMillionaireCommon ManUnheard Book:Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses Source: Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses
“I think that some of today's focus on freedom of information and trans rights have a tendency to focus on the actions of individuals and how they should be regulated by governments. However, I think it's important to remember that it is the institutions themselves - schools, tax collection services, banks, human resources decisions, health departments, police departments, prosecutors, courts, and prisons - where the most devastating and systemic problems occur today. The scale of these problems is simply unimaginable.” ThinkingShouldHumansImportantProblemGovernmentTodayActionSchoolRememberIndividualDecisionFocusRightsInformationTaxesResourcesPoliceInstitutionsCourtPrisonScalesTendenciesDepartmentCollectionsTransHuman ResourcesUnimaginableProsecutorPolice Department Author:Chelsea Manning