“The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code's complexity are the ones that put together what they now call a convoluted monstrosity. They put it into effect.” PeopleTodayTogetherSidesEffectsRepublicanTaxesComplicatedCodeComplexityMonstrosityConvoluted Author:Richard Neal
“Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge bag of good stuff for the Pentagon. But pretty quickly conservatives discovered that deficits, when done correctly, did something really cool: deficits defunded the Left.” FirstsDoneLeftStuffSidesCuttingHugeTaxesAccidentsCombinationBagsDeficitReally CoolTax CutsPentagonDeluded Author:Thomas Frank
“President Reagan, Jack Kemp and other advocates of supply-side economics understood that pro-growth tax, spending and economic policies were essential to America's long-term economic and fiscal health.” LongAmericaSidesGrowthPresidentTermEconomicPolicyTaxesEssentialsUnderstoodEconomicsSpendingLong TermEconomic PolicyPresident ReaganSupply Side Economics Author:Bob Beauprez
“Economists are almost unanimous in conceding that the land tax has no adverse side effects. ...Landowners ought to look at both sides of the coin. Applying a tax to land values also means removing other taxes. This would so improve the efficiency of a city that land values would go up more than the increase in taxes on land.” LooksMeanValuesSidesCitiesLandEffectsOughtTaxesIncreaseEfficiencyBoth SidesEconomistCoinsAdverseSide Effects Author:William Vickrey
“Congress has always had a soft spot for "experts" who tell members what they want to hear, whether it's supply-side economists declaring that tax cuts increase revenue or climate-change skeptics insisting that global warming is a myth.” WantSidesCuttingTaxesMembersIncreaseClimateClimate ChangeCongressMythSpotsExpertsGlobal WarmingEconomistRevenueSkepticTax CutsDeclaringInsisting Author:Paul Krugman
“It took the national debt two hundred years to reach $1 trillion. Supply Side Economics quadrupled the national debt to over $4 trillion in twelve years (1980-1992) under the Republicans. Bill Clinton actually paid down the national debt. How did he do it? He raised taxes. It produced the longest sustained economic expansion in U.S. History.” YearsTwoSidesEconomicRepublicanTaxesHundredEconomicsPaidBillsClintonRaisedDebtTwelveExpansionNational DebtSupply Side Economics Book:Straight Talk from the Heartland: Tough Talk, Common Sense, and Hope from a Former Conservative Source: Straight Talk from the Heartland: Tough Talk, Common Sense, and Hope from a Former Conservative
“The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this.” IfsMovingSidesInterestCuttingProgressTruth IsTaxesRaisesMoving ForwardKeep MovingKeep Moving Forward Author:David Axelrod
“We have to have structural entitlement reform, major spending cuts and not tax increase-retardants on economic growth to reverse our current course toward national bankruptcy, but Obama steadfastly remains on the wrong side of all these solutions.” CoursesSidesGrowthCuttingEconomicTaxesMajorsSolutionsIncreaseRemainsCurrentsSpendingReformReverseEconomic GrowthEntitlementBankruptcyTax IncreasesSpending Cuts Author:David Limbaugh
“The lawyers have escaped most criticism [and undeservedly so]. The tax shelters [were approved by lawyers, who got paid huge commissions to do so] and every miscreant had a high-falutin' lawyer at his side. Why don't more law firms vote with their feet and not take clients who have signs on them that say, "I'm a skunk and will be hard to handle?" I've noticed that firms that avoid trouble over long periods of time have an institutional process that tunes bad clients out. Boy, if I were running a law firm, I'd want a system like that because a lot of firms have a lot of bad clients.” IfsWantLongHardRunningLawProcessSidesBoysTroubleFeetHugePeriodsTaxesCriticismVotePaidLawyerHandleFirmTunesShelterClientsApprovedLong Periods Of TimeLaw FirmsHard To Handle Author:Charlie Munger
“So on the demand side [for energy], there have been a variety of policies that globally have been way over $50 billion a year of tax credits, raising the price of electricity through things like renewable portfolio standards, so the total amount of money that's gone into sending a price signal to push up demand versus what would happen without it has been gigantic.” WayYearsHas BeensHappensEnergySidesGonePolicyAmountDemandTaxesStandardsCreditBillionsVarietyElectricitySignalsVersusPortfoliosOver 50Push Ups Author:Bill Gates
“What the issue here is, you get rid of all the conservative orthodoxy about capital gains, marginal tax rate, supply side economics, you just throw all that out the window, limited government and you just embrace the sheer and raw politics of resentment that have been bubbling the whole time and that`s what you get. You get Donald Trump.” Has BeensWholeGovernmentSidesIssuesTrumpTaxesGainsEconomicsWindowEmbraceRateConservativeResentmentSheerOrthodoxyLimited GovernmentCapital GainsSupply Side Economics Author:Chris Hayes
“When you understand that your tax dollars pay for those tear gas canisters that were being fired into the crowd, and when you see that, and to know that a little bit of your fingerprint, your American DNA is a part of that, as well as those stealth bombers and that bomb that's lodged in the side of the school that has "Made in USA" on it in Gaza, and all of the unmanned drones that are blowing up weddings and things of that nature, to know that you pay for that, you really have - you don't have to do it now, but you need to think about that.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsWellsLittlesMadeSchoolBitsSidesPayTearsTaxesLittle BitDollarsCrowdsUsaBombsGasDnaDronesGazaFingerprintsBombersStealthBlowing UpTax Dollars Author:Lupe Fiasco
“I'd like to see a little more action on the energy side of things. I've been pushing for some kind of a carbon tax for years, and it seems to me we've had lots of opportunities to do it.” YearsKindLittlesSeemsActionOpportunityEnergySidesTaxesPushingCarbonCarbon Tax Author:Robert F. Engle
“Every presidential candidate for decades has released his tax returns, and I've released 33 years of my tax returns. The American people deserve to know about our taxes. And so Donald Trump is standing in the way of precedent that goes back on both sides of aisle Democrats and Republicans, and he clearly has something that he doesn't want us to see.” PeopleKnowsWayWantYearsSidesReturnTrumpRepublicanTaxesDeserveStandingDemocratDecadesPresidentialCandidatesBoth SidesWant UPrecedentAislePresidential CandidateTax Returns Author:Hillary Clinton
“You want to do tax reductions, you want to do permanent tax reduction, reductions in spending. You've got to go out and explain it to the people, get them on your side and have them become the levers that you need in congressional relations.” PeopleWantNeedsSidesTaxesRelationSpendingPermanentReductionYour SideLevers Author:Rudy Giuliani
“I'd make an educated guess that 20 to 25 percent of the taxable property in the U.S. is Church-owned.In a recent book, Church Wealth and Business Income, it was estimated that this property -all of it tax-exempt -is worth upwards of 80 billion dollars. I know that's a fantastic, unbelievable figure, but there's every reason to believe that it's on the conservative side; and this amount is increasing yearly at a geometric rate.” KnowsBelieveBookReasonSidesChurchWealthFiguresAmountTaxesPercentDollarsPropertyRateConservativeBillionsIncomeEducatedFantasticUnbelievableGeometric Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“There's this notion that Republicans are the party of Jesus and the Democrats are the Godless party. Let's be clear for a minute. One party wants to give health insurance to the poor and the weak and the dispossessed, and one party wants to take away that health insurance and give tax breaks to rich people. You tell me: which side would Jesus fall on that argument?” PeopleWantGivingFallJesusSidesPoorPartyBreakRichClearMinutesRepublicanTaxesArgumentWeakDemocratNotionRich PeopleTax Breaks Author:Reza Aslan