Quotes About Tax

one of the sisters started shaving her legs and marrying tax inspectors, so she was no good.

mitigate the scale of change and avert its most harmful effects through aggressive and intelligent policies. It will not be cheap. To address it seriously we would need to start by enacting a carbon tax

pg 9, The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence.

On the estate tax, if you look at the couple of groups who are the biggest advocates for repealing the estate tax, it really is the pass-through business, and it's the farmers.

I say just put a big fat tax on carbon.

I am in favour of a fully transferable allowance.

Weve got a police system who protect us, weve got firemen who put out fires. Weve got defence, man. Thats what tax is for.

It's the old Washington fiscal game of Jenga. You try to build as much debt as you can take, as much tax as you can take, until you topple the entire economy.

I'm working alongside the White House and other members in the House to lessen the tax burden that currently weighs on so many Oklahomans.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Whoever is running the country should not be in the pay of a foreign interest. The best way is to see tax returns.

Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior.

We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.

Why is it that if you take advantage of a corporate tax break you're a smart businessman, but if you take advantage of something so you don't go hungry, you're a moocher?

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

We have international organizations for health, trade, and football - even for coffee - but not tax. Why not?

Why not put a tax on carbon emissions. It would raise a lot of money, it would reduce the environmental damages in the future, it would solve so many problems, and it would be a much more constructive thing to do than to think about raising the income tax.

The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?

We already have an annual wealth tax on homes, the major asset of the middle class. It's called the property tax. Why not a small annual tax on the value of stocks and bonds, the major assets of the wealthy?

It's widely accepted that it is reasonable for a government to use tax policy to change behaviour.

Full and immediate expensing is widely recognized as one of the most pro-growth tax policies around.

A universal basic income funded by a value-added tax, which is a tax placed on a product whenever value is added at each stage of the supply chain, from production to the point of sale, would spread the benefits of automation to a much wider group of people.

The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq.