Loopholes Quotes - Page 2

• Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.

  Olympia Snowe

  Taken, Groups, Campaigns

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• Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Faith, Men, Legends

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.46, Penguin

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• I'm not saying my mother didn't like me, but she kept looking for loopholes in my birth certificate.

  Les Dawson

  Mother, Birth, Certificates

  Les Dawson (2012). “Les Dawson's Joke Book”, p.52, Michael O'Mara Books

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• If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.

  Austan Goolsbee

  Receiving, Lobbyists, Income

  "Austan Goolsbee Talks Economy and Elections". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2010.

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• If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money.

  James Surowiecki

  Needs, Making Money, Claims

  "Private Inequity". www.newyorker.com. January 30, 2012.

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• The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.

  Bob Beauprez

  Taxes, Democrat, Rate

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• It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is bigotry whether it's dressed up in the language of faith or not.

  Giles Fraser

  Religious, Government, Language

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• We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere for anyone.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Thinking, Gun, Criminals

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. January 30, 2014.

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• I don't believe there's a red state in America where people believe you should cut Medicare, Social Security and veterans' benefits rather than doing away with corporate tax loopholes.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Cutting, America

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The worst loophole is what Donald Trump has talked about: the tax deductibility of interest. If you let real estate owners or corporate raiders borrow the money to buy a property or company, and then pay interest to the bondholders, you'll load the company you take over with debt. But you don't have to pay taxes on the profits that you pay out in this way. You can deduct the interest from your tax liability.

  Michael Hudson

  Real, Pay, Way

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It is all too easy for the liberal media to stir up the irrational hatreds of millions of people, who see themselves as less fortunate than others, by repeatedly talking about eh billions of dollars in 'windfall profits' earned by major corporations, by featuring periodic stories on the opulent living of wealthy individuals, or by pointing an accusing finger at 'loopholes' used by 'the rich.'

  Robert Ringer

  Media, Talking, People

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• Are you worried that, when you go to hell, you'll only be taking the local and not be on the express? Why would you look for a loophole to deny coverage to children with preexisting conditions?

  Jon Stewart

  Children, Looks, Hell

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• I would favor three policies: raising the minimum wage to $12, closing the tax loophole where persons only pay a 15% income tax on long term capital gains (tax it at the full tax rate), and institute a progressive tax moving the highest tax rate from 39.6% to 45%. I would favor implementing these three policies in that order, starting with raising the minimum wage, but not stopping there.

  Philip Kotler

  Moving, Order, Long

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Every Christian church has tried to impose a code of morals of some kind for which it has claimed divine sanction. As these codes have always been opposed to those of the gospels a loophole has been left for moral progress such as hardly exists in other religions.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Christian, Progress, Church

  "Daedalus of Science and the Future: A paper read to the Heretics". Address at Cambridge, February 04, 1923.

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• Philosophically, the notion of a beginning of the present order of Nature is repugnant to me ... I should like to find a genuine loophole.

  Arthur Eddington

  Order, Should, Genuine

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• The corporations who invest in lobbyists, it pays in terms of tax loopholes, tax subsidies, all the rest. It pays. Clearly, the money has a big effect.

  Mark Shields

  Lobbyists, Subsidies, Pay

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There are loopholes big enough to drive trucks through. And Congress needs to take a look at those laws and make sure that they're much more rigorous.

  Marion Nestle

  Law, Needs, Looks

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We stiffened the penalties for fraud, we extended nationwide efforts to make sure that payments are accurate and they closed a loophole in which people were gaming the system. We didn't change eligibility requirements or reduce the level of benefits.

  Kevin Drum

  People, Effort, Benefits

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• High tax rates in the upper income brackets allow politicians to win votes with class warfare rhetoric, painting their opponents as defenders of the rich. Meanwhile, the same politicians can win donations from the rich by creating tax loopholes that can keep the rich from actually paying those higher tax rates - or perhaps any taxes at all. What is worse than class warfare is phony class warfare. Slippery talk about 'fairness' is at the heart of this fraud by politicians seeking to squander more of the nation's resources.

  Thomas Sowell

  Heart, Winning, Class

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• Obama says his recreation consists of reading the Constitution... looking for a loophole.

  Mort Sahl

  Reading, Constitution, Recreation

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• We are going to trace more effectively, how these guns are ending up on the streets, to unscrupulous gun dealers, who often times are selling to straw purchasers. And cracking down on the various loopholes that exist in terms of background checks for children, the mentally ill.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Gun, Selling

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I love to help women cut through all the labeling loopholes to find the best personal and oral care products on the market. This includes, of course, ingredients, but also recyclable packaging, products with expiration dates, examining company values (which includes no animal testing), and more.

  Sophie Heyman Uliano

  Cutting, Animal, Packaging

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• Now all of the ideas that I'm talking about, they are not radical ideas. Making public colleges and universities tuition free, that exists in countries all over the world, used to exist in the United States. Rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, and creating 13 million jobs by doing away with tax loopholes that large corporations now enjoy by putting their money into the Cayman Islands and other tax havens. That is not a radical idea.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Jobs, College

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• A lot of the people that are poor take advantage of loopholes and pay no taxes.

  Rudy Giuliani

  People, Pay, Poor

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. October 2, 2016.

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• ISIS is a radical jihadist group that is increasingly sophisticated in its ability, for example, to radicalize American citizens, in its inability to exploit loopholes in our legal immigration system, in its ability to capture and hold territory in the Middle East, as I outlined earlier, in multiple countries.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Middle East, Inability

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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