Quotes About Revenue

If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.

One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials.

Before long, Mir Jafar and the Jagat Seths had significantly raised their offer, and were now promising the participants Rs28 million, or £3 million sterling – the entire annual revenue of Bengal – for their help overthrowing Siraj, and a further Rs110,000 a month to pay for Company troops. In addition, the EIC was to get zamindari – landholding – rights near Calcutta, a mint in the town and confirmation of duty-free trade. By

Instead, anxious to maintain their revenues at a time of low production and high military expenditure, the Company, in one of the greatest failures of corporate responsibility in history, rigorously enforced tax collection and in some cases even increased revenue assessments by 10 per cent.

President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.

Separating land, labour and capital as independent and seemingly autonomous factors of production had a double advantage for the ruling classes since it permitted them to proclaim 'the physical necessity and eternal justification of their sources of revenue' at the same time as it suppressed any notion of exploitation since the act of production could in principle be portrayed as the harmonious assembly of separate and independent factors of production.

Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.

It cannot be good to tax the Americans... You will lose more than you gain.

personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble

There is no such thing as a good tax.

It's a good thing Doom 3 is selling very well.

Good journalism is good business practice; good business supports great journalism.

Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.

Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more.

We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts

The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to the taxpayer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond either the interests or the prospective wants of the Government.

What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.

Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some.

The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending.

If Wall Street paid a tax on every "game" they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.

Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

However, even a strong government can't perform miracles. It needs money from the taxpayers.

Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government