“They are having quite an argument over Treasury Secretary Mellon's Tax Bill. Mr. Mellon wants to cut the surtax on the rich, and leave it as is on the poor, as there is more poor than rich. I suppose the majority will win.” WantWinningPoorRichCuttingTaxesArgumentBillsMajoritySecretaryTreasury Author:Will Rogers
“The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for the secretary of commerce's office, to bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn ... seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime. Surely civilization would collapse without such essential services.” MenYearsEnoughLastsPayQualityFourWeekTvsCivilizationTaxesEssentialsOfficeLowsPaidPlantSevenTerrorCustomsFarmersSovietRegimesCollapseCommerceLast YearSecretaryCurtainsSalaryCornWheatPropsHigh QualityBribeAcresSubsidiesMedianFederal Taxes Author:Alan Bock
“I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've ever paid in my life. Now, that's crazy. And if you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or whomever around their office. On average. And so I think that actually people in my situation should be paying more tax. I think the rest of the country should be paying less.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldLooksCountryTermSituationCrazyTaxesOfficePaidRateAverageSecretaryLowestAccountingPayrollForbesPayroll Tax Author:Howard Warren Buffett
“I want to have a tax on people who are making a million dollars. It's called the Buffett rule. Yes, Warren Buffett is the one who's gone out and said somebody like him should not be paying a lower tax rate than his secretary. I want to have a surcharge on incomes above $5 million.” PeopleWantShouldSaidMillionsGoneTaxesDollarsRateIncomeSecretaryMillion DollarsBuffettWarren Buffet Author:Hillary Clinton
“If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever around their office.” IfsLooksTaxesOfficeRateSecretaryAccountingPayrollForbesPayroll Tax Author:Warren Buffett
“Coolidge was a pragmatist. He didn't start out with a tax theory. But he observed over time that lower tax rates sometimes brought in extra revenue. The success of his and Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon's experiment with rate cuts has been obscured by our modern history books.” Has BeensBookSometimesCuttingModernTheoryTaxesRateExperimentsExtrasSecretaryRevenueTreasuryAndrewHistory BooksModern HistoryPragmatists Author:Amity Shlaes
“Who are we talking about? We're talking about the people that are trying to criminalize Donald Trump. We're talking about the people that are trying to impeach him. We're talking about people who are trying to via innuendo and leak and media assassination, we're dealing with people that are trying to destroy Donald Trump and his press secretary just signaled that they are serious about reaching out to these people to try to get certain things done, legislatively, like infrastructure or tax reform.” PeopleTryingDoneSeriousTaxesReach OutSecretaryInnuendo Author:Rush Limbaugh
“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