“The remaining revenue on the consumption of foreign luxuries to domestic comforts, being collected on our seaboard and frontiers only, and incorporated with the transactions of our mercantile citizens, it may be the pleasure and the pride of an American to ask, What farmer, what merchant, what laborer ever sees a tax gatherer of the United States?” MayStatesAsksPleasureUnitedUnited StatesPrideCitizensComfortTaxesLuxuryFarmersConsumptionRevenueFrontiersMerchantsTransactionsLaborers Author:Thomas Jefferson
“The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe.” Has BeensInterestCitiesIssuesTaxesEuropeFinancialBritishShyRegulationIntroductionTransactionsReluctanceFinancial Regulation Author:Francois Hollande
“Due process requires some definite link, some minimum connection, between a state and the person, property or transaction it seeks to tax.” PersonsStatesProcessTaxesConnectionsPropertyDuesLinksMinimumDefiniteTransactionsDue Process Author:Robert H. Jackson
“It is not wise for us to permit a few people on the Federal Reserve Board to have life and death power over our economy. My recommendation for reducing some of that power is to repeal legal tender laws and eliminate all taxes on gold, silver and platinum transactions. That way there would be money substitutes and the government money monopoly would be reduced and hence the ability to tax - some people would say steal from - us through inflation.” PeopleWayGovernmentWould BeLawAbilityEconomyWiseTaxesGoldStealingBoardsLife And DeathSilverSubstitutesPermitReservesInflationMonopolyReducingTransactionsFederal ReserveRecommendationsGold And SilverPlatinum Author:Walter E. Williams
“We need to have a tax system that rewards work and not just financial transactions.” NeedsTaxesRewardsFinancialTransactionsTax System Author:Hillary Clinton
“In real estate you can avoid ever having to pay a capital gains tax, decade after decade, century after century. When you sell a property and make a capital gain, you simply turn around and buy a new property. The gain is not taxed. It's called "preserving your capital investment" - which goes up and up in value with each transaction.” RealValuesTurnsPayCenturyTaxesGainsSellsPropertyInvestmentDecadesEstatesTransactionsCapital GainsCapital InvestmentCapital Gains Tax Author:Michael Hudson