Quotes About Finance

I don't think revenue in any one day, week, month or year should determine long-term tax policy.

In the United States, securities markets are much more developed than they are in Europe.

I was working at Lowes and Target, then FedEx, and still did not have enough money to pay rent on my own.

Until the Fed dumps inflation targeting and the U.S. abandons its weak-dollar policy, inflation will rule the day.

The growth that we are targeting for our bank is in line with the banking industry.

It is important to create credit absorption capacity rather than to just enhance lending targets.

My major task was to keep us solvent.

There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!

We shall tax and tax, and spend and spend, and elect and elect.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.

Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful.

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

When I started to pay income tax, I was 50 years old.

Don't tax more than you have to.

You have got to clear up that corporation tax in the modern way has had its day as a major source of revenue, and we have got to find a new system.

What I advise clients is, sell, pay the tax and be happy. Don't ask me to find a replacement unless it's land.

What good will a tax break do me if I'm crippled for life?

Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.

Tax laws favor capital over labor, giving capital gains a lower rate than ordinary income. The rich get humongous mortgage interest deductions while renters get no deduction at all.

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

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.

The childcare tax credit makes some sense.