Quotes About Taxation

My opponents attitude is, 'If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it and when it stops, subsidize it.

It's scandalous that the four hundred richest Americans should pay an average of 17 percent tax on their incomes, a rate lower than that paid by many in the middle class.

In the half century spanning 1958 to 2008, the average effective tax rate of the richest 1 percent of Americans—including all deductions and tax credits—dropped from 51 percent to 26 percent.

U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.

The prime source of accumulation was the "scissors" between town and countryside: charging the peasant high prices for manufactured goods while paying him low ones for farm products. Avoiding Preobrazhensky's impolitic term "exploitation," Stalin called this "something on the order of 'tribute,' something on the order of a supertax.

Needless to say, it passed, for what group of voters ever refused to levy a tax on someone else, especially if it benefited themselves?

A corporation can do many things that an employee cannot, like pay expenses before paying taxes. That is a whole area of expertise that is very exciting. Employees earn and get taxed, and they try to live on what is left. A corporation earns, spends everything it can, and is taxed on anything that is left. It's one of the biggest legal tax loopholes that the rich use.

Employees earn and get taxed, and they try to live on what is left. A corporation earns, spends everything it can, and is taxed on anything that is left. It's one of the biggest legal tax loopholes that the rich use.

By the time the government gets a chance to tax that income, it's been spent on legally allowed pre-tax expenses.

You're taxed when you earn. You're taxed when you spend. You're taxed when you save. You're taxed when you die.

Tax laws encourage the rich to invest in real estate.

Taxes are highest on earned income. The least-taxed income is passive income.

The reason the middle class is so heavily taxed is because of the Robin Hood ideal. The reality is that the rich are not taxed. It's the middle class, especially the educated upper-income middle class, who pays for the poor.

The reality is that the rich are not taxed. It's the middle class, especially the educated upper-income middle class, who pays for the poor.

Because it was the income he had to work the least for, it is often the least taxed

The reason the middle class is so heavily taxed is because of the Robin Hood ideal.

bought a bigger house for the tax breaks that he never really got.

In 1913, an income tax became permanent in the United States with the adoption of the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

It took approximately 50 years in both England and the United States to sell the idea of a regular income tax.

Business people, on the other hand, are rewarded for having excess money and are applauded for their efficiency. As this cycle of growing government spending continued, the demand for money increased, and the "tax-the-rich" idea was adjusted to include lower-income levels, down to the very people who voted it in, the poor and the middle class.

the income-tax rate of a corporation is less than the individual income-tax rates. In addition, certain expenses could be paid by a corporation with pre-tax dollars.

Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it! Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he asked about the practical worth of electricity.

The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.

There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.