Quotes About Society

The role of government is to tax the people to the least extent possible while still taxing them enough to cover the basic needs for government.

At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.

Who's on the case when it comes to the flat tax?

As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these people in Greece who are trying to escape tax.

People don't seem to make the connection between their tax money and the benefits that they get from their tax money, like free education, and the fire department, and police protection, and everything else. It drives me bonkers, because it's pretty straightforward to me.

Republicans think tax filing should be easier for you, not just the well-connected.

At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.

Tax policy is not about compassion.

Society has to get a grip and put a tax on carbon. Of course, there is much that flows from that, and it is a complex situation. The small details of something such as climate change are political and social, and they are a lot about fairness and how we rebalance towards a fairer society.

Philanthropists today want input into how their monies are being deployed. The big question is, can governments use this insight to sell the rich the idea of paying more tax rather than spend more on charitable giving?

We should try to ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to find a great life. It's a quest that will require political will and ingenious policies. President Obama's proposed expansion of the earned-income tax credit goes in this direction, but we need more.

Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.

Lowering the middle-class tax rate... will likely lower work efforts and increase government dependence.

We are all are equal, but some pay higher tax rates than others.

If our tax system, as a whole, is progressive, then those with the broadest shoulders will make the greatest contribution, as it should be.

To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly.

Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.

Progressive taxation can offset the effect of growing inequality.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

Revolutions about taxation have shaped our history.

Yeah, I am in favor of migration. But I am also in favor of education. But at the same time, I am in favor of progressive taxation. I think we need all of this. I think we don't have to choose one.

We need to stop illegal immigration. We need to put people back to work. We need to cut taxes.

We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.