Quotes About John Brooks

Paradoxical as it may seem, the evolution of our income tax has been from a low-rate tax relying for revenue on the high income group to a high-rate tax relying on the middle and lower-middle income groups.

The role of the hero was filled, surprisingly, by the most frightening of untested forces in the market—the mutual funds.

Evidence that people are selling stocks at a time when they ought to be eating lunch is always regarded as a serious matter.

voluntary compliance," to strive for agreeable, or at least not disagreeable, relations with the taxpaying public, and so on. He is a less gregarious and a more reflective man than Caplin, however, and this difference has had

It soon became evident, though, that public sympathy was one thing and public willingness to translate sympathy into cash was quite another.