“If the economy grows enough, fast enough, the tech system should be modernized so that the tax revenues rise fast enough also, and we should put more money in education.” IfsShouldEnoughGrowsEconomyTaxesMore MoneyRevenue Author:Manmohan Singh
“A Wall Street money manager should not be able to pay a lower tax rate than a teacher or a nurse.” ShouldAblePayTeacherStreetsWallTaxesRateManagersNurse Author:Hillary Clinton
“Our largest companies should not be able to get away with paying hardly anything at all. It is insulting when they engage in these games like moving their headquarters over to a foreign country, on paper, not in reality, just to take advantage of lower tax breaks.” ShouldCountryRealityAbleMovingGamesCompanyBreakTaxesPaperAdvantageGet AwayInsultingForeign CountriesHeadquartersTax Breaks Author:Hillary Clinton
“Now, do I think the tax code should be simplified? Absolutely. Will Donald Trump do away with things like this? He probably is better positioned than anyone to figure out how to do away with it, because he understands the tax code better than anyone else.” ThinkingShouldFiguresTrumpTaxesCode Author:Rudy Giuliani
“America should really wonder about a President Trump, who had a campaign manager with ties to Putin, pro-putin elements in the Ukraine who had to be fired for that reason. They should wonder when Donald Trump is sitting down with Vladimir Putin, is it going to be America's bottom line, or is it going to be Donald Trump's bottom line he's going to be worried about with all of his business dealings. This would be solved if Donald Trump would release his tax returns as he's told the American public that he would do.” IfsShouldReasonWould BeAmericaPresidentLinesWonderReturnTrumpTaxesElementsSittingBottomCampaignsReleaseManagersWorriedTiesBottom LinePutinUkraineSitting DownDealingsTax Returns Author:Tim Kaine
“We should demand that Donald release all of his tax returns so that people can see what are the entanglements and the financial relationships that he has with the Russians and other foreign powers.” PeopleShouldReturnDemandTaxesFinancialReleaseEntanglementTax Returns Author:Hillary Clinton
“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
“Puerto Rico is a government that is spending money that it doesn't have. What's coming in and what's going out don't match. That is, what they are receiving in taxes is not sufficient to cover the spending that they are taking on. And any entity that does that, whether a family, a business, a government, is going to go broke and bankrupt. They are asking to be given the right to declare bankruptcy, which I think should be an option, as a last resort, if there is no other resource.” IfsThinkingShouldDoeGovernmentLastsGivenTaxesResourcesAskingSpendingBrokeSufficientReceivingEntityGoing OutResortsBankruptcyPuerto RicoSpending MoneyRico Author:Marco Rubio
“I think that actually people in my situation should be paying more tax.” PeopleThinkingShouldSituationTaxes Author:Warren Buffett
“I do believe that billionaires and multi-millionaires should be paying more in taxes.” ShouldBelieveTaxesMillionaireBillionaire Author:Bernie Sanders
“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
“I think liberals should accept that if we want big programs that significantly reduce inequality - and we should - it's going to require higher taxes on everyone. The rich can certainly do more, especially given their stupendous income increases since the Reagan era, but they can't do it all.” IfsThinkingWantShouldBigsGivenAcceptingRichHigherTaxesProgramIncreaseIncomeInequalityEras Author:Kevin Drum
“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
“Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top. Still it should be said of the political left, we expect something better. And correctly. We put more trust in those who show a measure of compassion, who denounce the hideous social arrangements that make war inevitable and human desire omnipresent; which fosters corporate selfishness, panders to appetites and disorder, waste the earth.” ShouldHumansSaidStillsWarStatesShowsEarthLawPoliticalDesireOrderLeftNationsSocialSecretCompassionVirtueTaxesWasteArmyPoliceCourtMythInevitableSelfishnessObedienceCorporatePropagandaAssumptionJailDisorderAppetiteArrangementsSomething BetterTreatiesCivicsHideousLaw And OrderSecret PoliceCivic Virtue Author:Daniel Berrigan
“Care work produces public goods, and should be supported in families by policies such as paid parental leave and caregiver tax credits, and by investments in good training and wages for caregiving, including early childhood education, in the market.” ShouldCareChildhoodPolicyProduceTaxesTrainingPaidInvestmentIncludingCreditGoodsWagesParentalEarly ChildhoodCaregiversCaregivingEarly Childhood Education Author:Riane Eisler
“Trump has to do what Reagan did. Trump's gotta go on the air and tell us what his tax plan is and put it in our faces and put them on the spot. That's what I think he should do.” ThinkingShouldFacesPlansAirGoes OnTrumpTaxesSpots Author:Scott Baio
“I should say that Canada is one of the major criminals, not just the tar sands and so on, but even mining throughout the world, a lot of it is Canadian. It's extremely destructive, so an important thing for Canadians to do is curtail the predatory and destructive behavior of their own government and corporations. A carbon tax is one way of doing it.” WorldWayShouldImportantGovernmentTaxesBehaviorMajorsImportant ThingsCriminalsOne WayCorporationsCanadaSandDestructiveCarbonMiningPredatoryCarbon TaxDestructive Behavior Author:Noam Chomsky
“We should tax every company's carbon footprint and the carbon footprint of every building and home, to incentivize people to reduce their carbon footprint.” PeopleShouldHomeCompanyBuildingTaxesCarbonFootprintCarbon Footprint Author:Philip Kotler
“Most employers I speak to, they want to create jobs and give decent salaries. Some small and medium companies say to me they cannot afford to pay the living wage. I say "what about if I gave you a business rate cut?" and they say, yes, ok. We want companies which are skilled up, generating more profit, more corporation tax - we should not be embarrassed at success, as long as they pay their taxes.” IfsWantGivingShouldLongJobsSpeakPayCompanyCuttingTaxesRateProfitMediumsCorporationsDecentEmbarrassedEmployersSalaryLiving Wage Author:Sadiq Khan
“If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.” IfsShouldPoliticsBusinessTaxesDebtSpendingRepresentationTaxationIncome TaxTaxation Without Representation Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We talked about many issues, like welfare, is it the way of life or hand up? Talked about size of government, how much should it tax families and small businesses? And when we left that lunch, we got in the car and I looked over at Chuck and said, "I'll be damned. We're Republicans."” WayShouldSaidHandsGovernmentLeftIssuesCarRepublicanTaxesSizeWelfareLunchSmall BusinessChuckHands UpSize Of Government Author:Susana Martinez
“The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.” ShouldReasonStuffTaxesEconomicsThings To DoRight ThingCarbonCarbon Tax Author:Elon Musk
“I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.” ShouldLastsClassEconomyCuttingMiddleTaxesPercentRaisesMiddle ClassTax Cuts Author:Barack Obama
“For my constituents, owning a home is the culmination of many years of hard work and the realization of the American Dream. At no time should a local entity take those years of hard work solely to increase their tax revenue.” ShouldYearsHardHomeDreamHard WorkTaxesIncreaseLocalsRealizationAmerican DreamEntityRevenueConstituentsCulminationOwning A Home Author:Solomon Ortiz
“Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.” ShouldCuttingTaxesChristmasTax Cuts Author:George Osborne
“The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.” ShouldActionJusticeRevolutionKingsTaxesDirectWake UpChiefsStampsObamacareColonyAmerican RevolutionWake Up CallChief JusticeCall To ActionKing George IiiStamp Act Author:Rand Paul
“Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.” ShouldMeanSimpleGenerationsPoliticianPureTaxesIncreaseSpendingExposedDeficitFuture GenerationHikerTax IncreasesDeficit Spending Author:Ron Paul
“Sixteen- and 17-year-olds pay taxes and can join the army, so surely they should in turn be given their right to vote.” ShouldYearsTurnsGivenPayTaxesVoteArmySixteenRight To VoteJoining The Army Author:Lucy Powell