Quotes About Tax

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.

I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.

Today, of course, the redistributive powers of Congress are everywhere -- except in the Constitution. The result is the feeding frenzy that is modern Washington, the Hobbesian war of all against all as each tries to get his share and more of the common pot the tax system fills. ... It is unseemly and wrong. More than that, it is unconstitutional, whatever the slim and cowed majority on the New Deal Court may have said.

Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion.

We have the biggest tax cut in history."30 Nope, Reagan passed one that was three times larger. Trump has told this lie over 180 times.31

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it.

Most tax revisions didn't improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisers.

The tax code requires special training.

We aren't protecting the people who most need it when those who can contribute to the country's success emigrate. Contrary to what some claim, I am not getting rid of the wealth tax to help the rich.

The success of a man should be measured not by his income but by his tax returns.

The income-tax law in toto has virtually no defenders, even though most fair-minded students of the subject agree that its effect over the half century that it has been in force has been to bring about a huge and healthy redistribution of wealth.

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.

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And then, to top off the joke, if that is what it is, there are the people with more income than anyone else who pay less tax than anyone else—that is, those with annual incomes of a million dollars or more who manage to find perfectly legal ways of paying no income tax at all.

The upshot of the distinctions [making business travel & entertainment tax-deductible] is to put a direct premium on the habit— which some people have considered all too prevalent for many years anyhow— of talking business at all hours of the day and night, and in all kinds of company.

action, it would result in rigidity and certainty of interpretation, and would make it much easier for tax practitioners like me to manipulate the law to their clients' advantage. The

For two decades, beginning in the early eighteen-seventies, the very thought of an income tax did not enter the American mind, apart from rare occasions when some Populist or Socialist agitator would propose the establishment of such a tax designed specifically to soak the urban rich.

Even for taxable clients, mutual fund managers supervised the assets in very much the same way, simply ignoring the tax impact and passing the tax liability through to largely unsuspecting fund shareholders.

Our youth [with their overwhelming support of Obama] are voting for a permanent tax on their life

even much richer, than others. I object to gain of wealth through political connections rather than earning it by merit. If a basketball franchise pays my neighbor Kobe Bryant $20 million a year because it takes that much to get him, fine. But if hedge fund managers bribe politicians to put a clause in the laws cutting the tax rate on much of their income to a fraction of the percentage the average worker pays, I object.

For a timely sweet and beautiful; however, permanently, the life-sucking virus, and cruelty which factually, lineage and design the ways for the interest on money that, one borrows and loans from banks, and whatever such other gambling establishments. Indeed, each one is a slave, victim, and even a prisoner of banking interest accordingly; thus, only the bankers hold the global ownership and public breathes in a rental life with tax.

For a timely sweet and beautiful; however, permanently, the life-sucking virus, and cruelty which factually, lineage and design the ways for the interest on money that, one borrows and loans from banks, and whatever such other gambling establishments. Indeed, each one is a slave, victim, and even a prisoner of banking interest accordingly; thus, only the bankers hold the global ownership, and the public breathes in a rental life with tax.

People who have wealth the max can always relax as there will be a special relief or rebate on tax for their business.

Salary getting employees are filing the tax return in time to make the top business class people enjoying the flying on time.