Revenue Quotes - Page 19

• It is sometimes argued that one of the benefits of legalizing addictive drugs is that they could be taxed, and the government revenues enhanced. From this perspective, this would be the only valid case against legalization.

  Walter Block

  Government, Perspective, Drug

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• I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public blessing.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Blessing, Simple, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803”, p.18, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska.

  Sarah Palin

  Alaska, Filled Up, Oil

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their own limit, which cannot be exceeded without defeating the end purposed - that is, an extension of the revenue.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Excess, Taxation, Limits

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• New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.

  Alec Baldwin

  New York, Cities, Stupidity

  ABFoundation @ABFalecbaldwin, twitter.com. May 13, 2014.

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• Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.

  Eric Schmidt

  Technology, Google, Half

  "Q&A: Three minutes with Google's Eric Schmidt". Interview with Tom Spring, www.computerworld.com. January 31, 2002.

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• We need to have a strong economy that can create employment opportunities and that can also produce the revenue that we need to defend our country at home and abroad.

  Bob Menendez

  Country, Strong, Home

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• The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold. Or, if your ad revenue or your seven-figure salary or your privileged sexual status depend on it, it is an operable condition.

  Naomi Wolf

  Beautiful, Salary, Mature

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing.

  Craig Ferguson

  Fear, Divorce, Knowing

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• Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change and can trace its consequences; a harvest reared not by themselves but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow citizens. This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the few not for the many.

  James Madison

  Law, Toil, Different

  James Madison, John Jay (1818). “The Federalist: On the New Constitution; Written in 1788, by Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Jay, and Mr. Madison”, p.338

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• My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Mean, Goal, People

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

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• 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

  Don Marquis

  Humble, Ambition, Cockroaches

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.256, Penguin

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• [The Internal Revenue Code is] about 10 times the size of the Bible and, unlike the Bible, contains no good news

  Don Nickles

  News, Taxation, Size

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• I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside.

  Ken Dodd

  Taxation, Pennies, Taxes

  "Ken Dodd on his 60 years in showbiz: I'll keep doing live shows until I drop". Interview with Rachael Bletchly, www.mirror.co.uk. November 12, 2014.

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

  Allan H. Meltzer

  Government, Libertarian, Communism

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• ...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded.

  Noah Webster

  Selfish, Men, Rights

  Noah Webster (1835). “Instructive and Entertaining Lessons for Youth: With Rules for Reading with Propriety, Illustrated by Examples: Designed for Use in Schools and Families”, p.230

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• Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased - not a reduced - flow of revenues to the federal government.

  John F. Kennedy

  Yield, Government, Years

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

  Milton Friedman

  Cutting, Government, Politics

  "Milton Friedman's Last Lunch" by Mark Skousen, www.forbes.com. November 24, 2006.

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• The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families and of Common-wealths. Almost all Governments have therefore made it a principal Object of their Attention, to establish and endow with proper Revenues, such Seminaries of Learning, as might supply the succeeding Age with Men qualified to serve the Publick with Honour to themselves, and to their Country.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Wise, Country

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.190, Penguin

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• Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail and prisons, however, they can each generate corporate revenues of $30,000 to $40,000 a year.

  Chris Hedges

  Color, Years, Jail

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• We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute.

  Thomas Paine

  Wisdom, Government, Hands

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.107, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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